There is a tradition of silence in those scriptures, too.
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Hindu scriptures do not support the caste system by birth.
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But not so much the literal text of the scriptures.
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But I wasn't relying on my own reading of the Scriptures.
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Above all else, they gave Eisenhower a reverence for the Scriptures.
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But Christians aren't the only ones who've misused scriptures for violence.
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The oldest Hindu scriptures contain almost no mention of physical postures.
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Might I teach my daughter about the scriptures through Church Chat?
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"It was the Scriptures that changed my life around," she said.
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"I believe they are misinterpreting the Scriptures big time," he tweeted recently.
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On the road, there are no group prayers, no scriptures to follow.
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Traditional Hindu scriptures imagine the existence as a series of repeating cycles.
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He did read a few scriptures, at Jason's request, during the ceremony.
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America, he contends, was founded on "the God of the holy scriptures".
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Similar points can be made of many Scriptures from around the world.
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One of the scriptures read on Shavuot is the Book of Ruth.
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According to his scriptures, humans previously took on an entirely different form.
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They're often bristling with scriptures, perky uplifting messages and times of services.
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Quantou is home to a complex singing style derived from Buddhist scriptures.
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"The scriptures gives us space for everyone to exist and coexist," he said.
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Some have supporters all over the world helping them translate sermons and scriptures.
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So I think we have to relate our environmental challenges to those scriptures.
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That's why you brought the Bible scriptures in, from the Book of Genesis?
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In search of Buddhist scriptures and enlightenment, man and monkey venture to India.
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The scriptures of every faith are collections of stories, not assemblages of data.
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Every day I would wake up, and he would say scriptures of the Bible.Yeah.
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Like Dante's Inferno, ancient scriptures describing these various hells have captivated artists across centuries.
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Politicians can collaborate and do deals, but lawyers refer to first-principles legal scriptures.
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We took what's available in our scriptures and put it in a modern format.
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We have different scriptures and traditions, which tell different versions of the same story.
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All religions contain sacred scriptures that call on their faithful to care for creation.
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According to our shared scriptures, God commands people of faith to love our neighbors.
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And the Quran, like the Bible, contains scriptures that both endorse and reject violence.
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The Om chant was originally drawn from Hindu scriptures and is found across different faiths.
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The audio, partly dedicated to religious scriptures, came after several reports Baghdadi had been killed.
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Culture Minister Sharma told Reuters he wants to establish that Hindu scriptures are factual accounts.
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Throughout all of the scriptures, however, Jesus does not say a single word about abortion.
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It is as old as the Scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution.
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These studies include scriptures, lessons and actions that activate a community to engage on climate.
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For 1,500 years, monks have sought enlightenment, through meditation, or by studying ancient Buddhist scriptures.
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We will always be driven by our values and by our morals and by scriptures.
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There are glimpses in the messages that come from there, some of the old Scriptures.
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We sometimes read and studied together, Lorca and midrash and Eluard and Buddhist scriptures and Cavafy.
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"The Vedic scriptures gave some sort of backbone to my life," Harrison said in the film.
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The text is one of the most beloved Buddhist scriptures, describing the pathway to attaining nirvana.
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The scriptures include the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas and the Bhagavad Gita, or Song of God.
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In ancient scriptures, it is celebrated for its ability to nurture humanity and is compared to deities.
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"The word used in the Vedic scriptures is 'jaTaa,' which means 'twisted lock of hair,'" he writes.
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Justice is one of the main themes in both the Jewish scriptures and the Christian New Testament.
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As you know better than I, the Scriptures themselves indicate that the Resurrection wasn't so clear cut.
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People use these scriptures to say, 'This text says that God killed these people because they were gay.
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The court decision quoted Islamic scriptures, bits of letters by the Prophet Muhammad and a smattering of Shakespeare.
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They carried signs identifying their churches and synagogues, and often citing the scriptures that motivated them to participate.
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There is no mention of Derbent in either the Quran or the Bible or any holy scriptures, he noted.
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His criticism of Judaism was rooted in theological disagreement over the reading of shared Scriptures, not in racial animus.
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Judge Faqih is the first female judge in these courts, a woman steeped in the study of Muslim scriptures.
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Jains also light lamps, but in honor of Lord Mahavira, the last of 24 enlightened souls within Jainist scriptures.
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He's a Tibetan Buddhist, and ketamine seemed to take him to places he'd only read about in Buddhist scriptures.
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A 48-hour recitation of Sikh Holy Scriptures will begin on Thursday afternoon, followed by a funeral on Saturday.
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Some 70 Jewish elders said to be "skilled in the Scriptures and in both languages" were sent from Jerusalem.
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He sought out theologians at the school, read scriptures and became more serious about the Seventh Day Adventist faith.
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"I used to believe that God condemns homosexuals, but when I studied the scriptures, especially the ones that we call 'clobber scriptures' that are being cherry-picked from the Bible to condemn LGBT people, I realized that there's a lot to discover, including the truth that God is not against anyone," Paminiano said.
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"The Scriptures say you can trust the rebuke of a friend," Vander Plaats told BuzzFeed News by telephone last week.
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They start going into scriptures and ancient texts and stuff, and apparently there are people who say that, about levels.
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" He adds that as always, the family will "get together and eat and read scriptures and read the Christmas story.
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There was also a former monk I interviewed who had smashed Buddhist stupas and burned scriptures during the Cultural Revolution.
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His remarks sound more like an apologetic for himself than for the God of the scriptures he claims to teach.
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For example, Christian fundamentalists very much desire the Scriptures to be true and the theory of evolution to be false.
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After 1978, she devoted herself to the study of Vedic scriptures, and to the bhajans on the Luaka Bop collection.
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Others sat on a dais at the front, reading aloud from scriptures that had been printed by hand next door.
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A man looks through scriptures while he and other members of the Black Hebrew Israelites gather on Capitol Hill on Nov.
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Husam al-Deen Afanah, another Islamic judge, believes unequivocally that the scriptures do not permit a woman to hold the office.
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Or, as the scriptures say in I Iron Man, "I mean, I'd apologize, but isn't that what we're going for here?"
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"Pure and undefiled" religion, the Scriptures implore Christ's followers, is "to visit orphans and widows in their affliction" (James 1:27).
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She added that she would be more inclined to back the legislation if it included scriptures and texts from other religions.
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It was an essentially religious position, based on a stringent reading of the Scriptures that some called pure and others radical.
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What the women thought of Paul, about his pronouncements or their own place in the world, the Scriptures do not say.
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With the spread of Buddhism from India, and the translation of scriptures into Chinese, the word entered China and then Japan.
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They also began pushing extremist Hindu priorities, including an effort to locate a mystical river that features prominently in Hindu scriptures.
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Contrary to GOP priorities, the well-to-do and the accumulation of wealth are not portrayed positively anywhere in the scriptures.
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The scriptures make clear that only those who provide comfort to tired, hungry, sick or imprisoned "strangers" will ascend to heaven.
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While the Bible is strikingly silent on abortion, the scriptures do provide some illuminating insights into when and how life begins.
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He decided to study Arabic so he could read Islamic scriptures for himself and traveled to Sudan before settling in Egypt.
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The publisher also released a tiny excerpt from Fleabag: The Scriptures, describing the last shot of the show's pilot, per EW: "Fleabag: The Scriptures showcases all we've loved about Fleabag, but also proves that what we've seen on our screens is only the tip of the iceberg," Sceptre Books head Emma Herdman said in a statement.
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Today, not quite a decade after Helms's death, it is harder to stifle debate by citing the Scriptures or other eternal verities.
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I recited the scriptures that said the wages of sin would be death, and, as such, traded my body for eternal life.
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It is told in the 22nd chapter of Genesis, part of the Hebrew Scriptures which are read by both Christians and Jews.
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In the ancient scriptures of India, it is mentioned that the goddess of prosperity, Lakshmi, resides in cow dung and cow urine.
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The new public library at the golden-domed shrine of Imam Ali includes sizeable collections of Marx's tracts and non-Muslim scriptures.
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"Our English word 'Scripture' implies a written text, but most Scriptures began as texts that were composed and transmitted orally," she writes.
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From electronic scriptures to robot priests, different faiths have absorbed new ideas from the world of technology to enhance mainstream religious practices.
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Why would those in positions of power locate all the knowledge, wisdom and technological advancement of the modern world in ancient scriptures?
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She said she spent most of her time at the compound, cultivating cucumbers and melons, contemplating the scriptures and waiting to die.
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Privacy is not addressed frequently in the Jewish and Christian Scriptures; when it is, the advice or commands offered are sometimes contradictory.
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A bill allowing students to take elective classes about the Bible and Hebrew scriptures has already been signed into law in Kentucky.
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Om, a syllable drawn from Hindu scriptures, comes to life as a religious symbol for followers of faiths such as Hinduism and Jainism.
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The masses could hear the Scriptures being read aloud, thus gaining the capability of the prior era—to hear the words of God.
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Apart from having additional scriptures and prophets whose authenticity is not recognised by mainstream Christians, the Utah-based church also espouses different dogmas.
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It may also represent the three major Hindu gods (Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva) or the three sacred Vedic scriptures (Rigveda, Yajurveda, and Samaveda).
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I pondered Scriptures stored up in my mind, and I told Him what was on my heart and cast my burdens on Him.
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I wouldn't detract from that, but I think we're in a time where there are other scriptures and messages that are more relevant.
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A book stall inside offers Hindu scriptures at various reading levels, as well as dry meals, like "the Indian Chex Mix," he said.
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She has become a kind of prophet and exegete of American democracy, as devoted to our secular scriptures as to her Christian ones.
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Long ago, the Church of the Purple After had found a planet that fit the descriptions of the cosmic heaven in their scriptures.
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The similarity here to Luther—who claimed that a "simple layman armed with the scriptures" was superior to a cleric without them—is noteworthy.
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Where religion may have dictated a life path for the generation before him, Evan chooses his own spiritual high road, reading code, not scriptures.
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Yes, the Smiths' catalogue is a timeless expression of evocative, intellectual teen angst, full of indie rock classics and life-changing scriptures from Morrissey.
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It's a wonderful, vaguely Buddhist adventure story about magical disciples of this one monk who are traveling from China to India to get scriptures.
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While many deaf Muslims in Indonesia can read and memorize some scriptures, they have little access to Islamic scholars who can communicate with them.
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The recording released Thursday, titled "Sufficient Is Your Lord As A Guide And A Helper," is mostly dedicated to religious scriptures, according to reports.
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The monastery also houses collections of sutras, including 830 classic scriptures and copies of more than 70 percent of ancient Tibetan manuscripts, she said.
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He followed with other articles, went on TV and faced off against other clerics who insulted him and marshaled their own evidence from the scriptures.
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The elective course would have to be offered in both private and public schools, and could be taught on either the Bible or Hebrew scriptures.
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As he studied Christianity, he was drawn to the mystics and came to believe that the Scriptures call people into a personal relationship with God.
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Between references to the Scriptures, he winked and waved at three women in floor-length gowns and headdresses who sat through the three-day trial.
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Though a man of God, Martin was also a believer in our American scriptures: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
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And from the very beginning, the Christian Scriptures tell us, Jesus was at odds with the cultural and political powers in which he found itself.
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He argues that reason and religion can coexist because we are meant to use our intelligence to reject manipulative and myopic interpretations of the scriptures.
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Don't expect a straight Fleabag novelization or whatever, though—The Scriptures is more of an inside look at how Waller-Bridge's TV series came together.
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The therapy uses "positive scriptures that focus on forgiveness, God's love and divine mercy to challenge the dysfunctional thoughts that maintain trauma," says Dr. Koenig.
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Each day since Hussle's death, more of his words surface like Dead Sea Scrolls and shed light on the secular scriptures he spat in rhyme.
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Throughout the Torah — the most important Hebrew Scriptures — we find references to the start of the year in the spring, in the month of Nisan.
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This epithet can refer to a feminine form of divine power, mentioned fleetingly in the Hebrew scriptures, whose role is to impart inspiration and creative force.
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On the American religious right, some have discouraged children from reading the stories by citing passages in the Hebrew Scriptures which forbid any recourse to witchcraft.
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Scriptures that declared that God was a "jealous God," and passages where prophets described those who turned to other gods as whores flashed in her memory.
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The video's soundtrack, audible through headphones, features overlapping tracks of children reading the nursery rhymes and the scriptures; the two merge to form a lilting rhythm.
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These mainly hail from Eastern religions – terms such as "Nirvana" or "Brahman" – which translates roughly as the ultimate reality underlying all phenomena in the Hindu scriptures.
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Though Parvati isn't mentioned explicitly in the Vedas, the ancient texts that laid the foundations for today's Hinduism, her alternative names do appear in these scriptures.
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First, I slightly modified small things such as names of scriptures and priestly titles for the various Israelite religious sects, to make it more historically accurate.
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And quite a few evangelical leaders and authors, straight individuals, have announced that they are affirming of LGBT relationships in the church and reexamining the scriptures.
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"I think so many people have taken biblical scriptures out of context on this, to say stuff like, 'Well, Jesus was a refugee,' " White told CBN.
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So at the parts where we could choose the language, the person overseeing the wedding, without knowing it, was reading out bits of the satanic scriptures.
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Though Sikhism is sometimes confused with Islam, it is an independent religion with its own prophets, scriptures, practices, ceremonies, and beliefs, according to the Sikh Coalition.
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Speaking a very fluent, almost poetic Arabic, he was a gifted orator, referring to sacred scriptures in his speeches and making clear his knowledge of Islam.
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The inner wall of the church has been painted and all those pictures, scriptures, and murals were made out of tree leaves, roots, barks and flowers.
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On Wednesday, Random House announced that Waller-Bridge has written a Fleabag book, called Fleabag: The Scriptures, and it's due out this fall, Entertainment Weekly reports.
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As a Hindu, he says his hand will rest on the Bhagavad Gita -- holy scriptures written in Sanskrit that form part of several holy books in Hinduism.
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With the help of a philosophy professor, he read scriptures and the writings of saints and eventually became a member of a lay branch of the Franciscans.
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But despite practicing six hours of yoga and meditation every day for months, I hadn't glimpsed the transcendence I read about in the Buddhist and yogic scriptures.
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Converts, however, were often targeted as heretics for practicing polygamy, believing in scriptures exclusive to Mormonism and saying that their faith was the true restoration of Christianity.
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They have this thing called the Mystical Version—because they're well aware that the younger generation don't sit around reading scriptures, and they hardly read the newspaper.
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"I think so many people have taken biblical scriptures out of context on this, to say stuff like, 'Well, Jesus was a refugee,'" White told the network.
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Mr. Patterson's conservatives insisted that theirs was the only possible interpretation of the Bible's texts on women, the true meaning of the Scriptures as God wrote them.
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A celebrated biblical scholar, keen on weaving together traditional Jewish exegesis, psychoanalysis and postmodern criticism, Zornberg always displays minute attention to the psychological subtext of the Scriptures.
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Manning tried throughout the hour to steer the Bible study back to the Scriptures, but before he could, someone asked how the church felt about the death penalty.
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"Likelihood of Nancy Pelosi praying for Trump is about the same as the likelihood of Satan running around quoting the Scriptures," the president's son tweeted on Thursday morning.
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I'd been taught that the scriptures were clear: Humans existed to multiply and replenish the Earth — to bring more spirit children down here and eventually back to God.
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Consequently, for far too long, we allowed institutional policies regarding race to be shaped more directly by that ethos than by the principles and precepts of the Scriptures.
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Classical Hinduism is more a conglomeration of sects than a single religion; it has many ancient scriptures but no single, foundational text, like the Bible or the Quran.
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In sharp contrast to the scriptures, Trump told his ultra-wealthy friends that "You all just got a lot richer" following the passage of his enormous tax cuts.
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According to the Christian Scriptures, Jesus had a life story — born in a manger in Bethlehem, later moving to Nazareth, and dying in his 30s, just outside Jerusalem.
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There's an image in the Christian scriptures of Paul writing how we're all one body and we can't all be eyes, we can't all be the hands or feet.
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Even in ancient scriptures and etchings found in Wat Po, in Thailand, one of the birthplaces of Buddhism, there are instructions for usage of cannabis as a skin treatment.
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"Over the past few years, I've found that the West is genuinely fascinated by how starkly different South Asian scriptures and iconography look," the 24-year-old artist explains.
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In private, he looked to the scriptures and the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad for guidance on what was halal and what was haram, and he documented his findings.
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Created to protect the 657 volumes of Buddhist scriptures Xuanzang brought back, the pagoda yields another benefit: the views from the top are excellent, if slightly hindered by smog.
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He credits his grandfather, a monk who had him spend hours after school copying Buddhist scriptures by hand, with instilling in him an appreciation for Tibetan language and culture.
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All too often, these Christians quote New Testament scriptures like those in Romans or 1 Peter that urge believers to submit to human authority and pray for human leaders.
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Fledgling progressive circles trying to develop a more liberal approach to Islamic scriptures can never hope to match the support the Wahhabi-Salafi vision of the religion has received.
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"The people behind it (the Arabic translation) are motivated by their homophobia based on their misunderstanding of sacred scriptures and based on their preconceived ideas about homosexuality," he adds.
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If that's the case, Fleabag: The Scriptures is just for you; it contains all filming scripts for the show's two seasons, plus behind-the-scenes commentary from Waller-Bridge.
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"Israel has blessed this world by pointing us to you, the one true god, through the message of her prophets, the Scriptures, and the messiah," Jeffress said at the ceremony.
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"There are many scriptures that make it clear to me that God knew us and had a plan for us when we were still in our mother's womb," state Sen.
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Their pastor, Reverend Samuel Tunde Ogunmodede, said he and his congregation had come to the biblical lake to see what they had, until now, only read about in the scriptures.
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"How do you take two or three Scriptures and make a theology out of it, and claim it is the moral perspective, and leave 25,000 on the table?" he said.
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By the Book "I prefer not to know exactly how I feel about a character," says the Emmy-winning actor, writer and producer (whose new book is "Fleabag: The Scriptures").
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As we confront those things when reading the scriptures, we are taught that yes, we must turn from those things, but He will help us and forgive and heal us.
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"We learned hard work, we learned to love the Lord, we learned to pray, we learned to love the Scriptures, and that has never left any of us," Ford said.
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If there's one thing Todd Chrisley knows best ... it's that Attorney General Jeff Sessions does NOT know best when it comes to Bible scriptures about separating kids from their parents.
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The South Bend Mayor will appear on "TMZ Live" Monday afternoon and he makes it clear ... he's not giving up on voters who believe the Holy Scriptures disqualify gay candidates.
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If you turn over your soda cups or check your hamburger wrappers, you'll see Bible scriptures, like John 3:16 and Revelation 3:20, which, according to Snopes, bear special significance.
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That is to say, 200m Indians belong to a community deemed so impure by the scriptures that they are placed outside the hierarchical Hindu caste system and are commonly called "untouchable".
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Sure, the scriptures of these religions have inspired a lot of people to do good things, but they have also inspired a lot of people to do bad things as well.
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Just as nowadays, there was an argument between rationalists and people of faith about the science of the Bible, in this case, whether the giants described in the Scriptures were real.
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From ancient religious scriptures to Tolkien, the dragon was a very well-established idea and needed no explanation, so tying the game to dragons was very smart from a strategic perspective.
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Among those are scenes of Red Guards forcing monks at a temple to denounce Buddhist scriptures and tearing out an official's hair because he was deemed as too closely resembling Mao.
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"When we remember that with those 272 souls, we received the same sacraments, read the same Scriptures, said the same prayers, sang the same hymns and praised the same God," he said.
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Scriptures typically evolved flexibly to promote compassion, empathy and magnanimity — so it is particularly sad when today they are cherry-picked by ideologues, wrenched from context, to justify rigid and pusillanimous dogma.
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So long as baseball continues to ascribe mythical powers to non-mythical things, it will leave behind fans who can't afford to go to Cooperstown, or weren't raised reading the same scriptures.
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He calls it a "beautiful contradiction" -- black churchgoers can embrace a doctrine that excludes a group of people but jettison those scriptures once they get to know and love such a person.
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But his Atlanta venue was a funky theater in the city's Little Five Points district, an artsy intown area where people are more apt to openly smoke marijuana than cite scriptures in public.
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The most misused scriptures Attorney General Jeff Sessions was condemned recently when he cited a passage in Romans 13 to justify the Trump administration's policy of separating parents from children at the border.
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Lobsang Tayang wakes his students, 10-year-old Batkhan Tuul and 11-year-old Temuulen, at around seven to test their memory of the scriptures, chanting which fills the rest of the morning.
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In the holy scriptures of the Jews and Christians, the Jewish Temple, which twice stood and was twice destroyed on this very same site, is the ultimate expression of Israel's faith in God.
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In particular, they are embraced by Narendra Modi, the prime minister, and supporters of his Bharatiya Janata Party, for whom the ancient scriptures of Hinduism, above all, represent the glory and essence of India.
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In what could only be described as a men's rights extremist's wet dream, the American government has been overthrown and replaced by an archaic ordering of gender roles — based on scriptures from the Bible.
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"A wiser spiritual adviser than Jefress would counsel the president that there is no conceivable argument to be found in Christian scriptures for threatening death and suffering on a huge scale," the Anglican added.
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I wanted to teach yoga and deliver those ancient scriptures in a way that's not esoteric, and make sure I give a full experience to promote ideas and a state of happiness and presence.
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This is how I best know Jesus Christ, the human face of God, revealed in the church's Scriptures, its rich intellectual and artistic life, its liturgy and sacraments, and its inspiring works of mercy.
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She would try to listen for her father&aposs footsteps and then flip on the light and act as if she was studying Scriptures to have an excuse for him to go away, she said.
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Durga Puja is a sacred festival that takes place once a year, when it is said that the supreme Mother Goddess from Hindu scriptures descends on an earthly mission for ten days to vanquish evil.
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The members of Eden had actually read all of the holy texts of the Abrahamic religions, studying them and using scriptures and verses in an attempt to bolster their own beliefs, Al Makin told me.
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But the less-internet savvy among us may be forgiven for that interpretation thanks to a new translation of the Bible that has rendered the Christian scriptures in emojis and other forms of online slang.
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What shines through is the way Scriptures in so many traditions were an art form, like an opera or poetry reading, meant to elevate us, not simply to give us ammunition to support preconceived views.
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For the Western visitor, Saudi Arabia is a baffling mix of modern urbanism, desert culture and the never-ending effort to adhere to a rigid interpretation of scriptures that are more than 215,215 years old.
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" On Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen: "This stupendously naïve old school marm [sic] still believes the received Keynesian scriptures as penned by the 6900s-era apostles James (Tobin), John (Galbraith), Paul (Samuelson) and Walter (Heller).
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Nine of 12 history committee members interviewed by Reuters said they have been tasked with matching archaeological and other evidence with ancient Indian scriptures, or establishing that Indian civilization is much older than is widely known.
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" But Reuchlin, who corrected St Jerome, naturally thought he had got nearer to the spirit of the scriptures, and so to their author himself: "God wished his secrets to be known to mortal man through Hebrew.
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And at Wat Po, the reclining Buddha temple across the river, the artist Huang Yong Ping has installed "Zuo You He Che," a pair of massive legs topped with animal heads carrying scriptures in their mouths.
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The sale's top lot, Bernardino Luini's "Une figure de sainte, en buste, avec une palme et lisant les Ecritures [A figure of saint, in bust, with a palm and reading the scriptures]," sold for €1,207,500 (~$1,373,000).
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For his latest series, "Ha Aretz"—Aramaic for "The Promised Land"—the Spanish photographer decided to journey through the six countries that now constitute the world described in the Scriptures: Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, and Syria.
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"In response to that, plaintiff Kristine Johnson and Timothy Johnson followed the rules and scriptures of the church, which ... requires and admonish church members to 'confess their sins unto the brethren before the Lord,'" the lawsuit says.
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Although Padamsee had intended for the painting to be a contemporary rendering of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati, the divine couple from Hindu scriptures, the local authorities took offense at its frank portrayal of nudity and sex.
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He went back and reached back into the Hebrew scriptures, to Deuteronomy and Leviticus, and Jesus said you shall love the lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind and all your strength.
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Their masters often used Christianity to justify their bondage, but slaves converted the scriptures they heard into Negro spirituals, using music to create their own interpretation of the Bible rather than the one that was imposed on them.
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Other projects include examining artifacts from locations in scriptures, mapping the dates of astrological events mentioned in these texts and excavating the sites of battles in another epic, the Mahabharata, according to Sharma and minutes of the committee's meeting.
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His offer was politely rebuffed; he told me the current board, who are Mormons, made it clear that they wouldn't do so without explicit guidance from one of the Three Nephites, the guardian-angel like figures from Mormon scriptures.
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The most famous of Hindu scriptures, the Bhagavad-Gita, is concerned with the conflict between Arjuna's military duty and his desire to spare his own kinsmen arrayed against him; and it is Krishna himself who exhorts Arjuna to fight.
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As I read the Scriptures of my own faith, we are called to follow the example of Jesus Christ, who protected the poor, the marginalized and the vulnerable — and advised the mighty and the powerful to do the same.
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During the festival, a procession is held in which local villagers wear colorful, lacquered papier-mâché masks of iconic gods and demons from Hindu scriptures as well as local myths, and enact codified performances over several days and nights.
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Jesus of Nazareth on one occasion was asked by a lawyer to sum up the essence of the teachings of Moses and he went back and reached back into the Hebrew scriptures to Deuteronomy and Leviticus and he said.
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He pledged to build a library, and followed through a few years later with a 100-acre facility that now holds nearly two million books, including a 100,000-volume collection of Buddhist scriptures, one of the largest in China.
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He said the world must come together to solve these issues and India could show it the way, referring frequently to ancient Indian thought and scriptures that call for harmony between humans and nature and refer to the world as family.
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Other women described being told that abuse was their fault, that they needed to work harder to satisfy their husbands' sexual desires, and that they should pray or read their scriptures more often in order to deal with violence at home.
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Especially when we talk about the Abrahamic faiths (Christianity, Islam, and Judaism), defensive theology looks like six or seven scriptures that are consistently used to claim that LGBTQ+ folks are unholy or sinful, like the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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"... We like to pick and choose from the scriptures, and if we choose to use the Old Testament as a defense for condemning homosexuality, there's a whole lot more we need to be condemning as well," she said in the post.
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A devotional is a curious thing: Somewhere between an almanac and an astrology column, it's both a systematic way of reading through the scriptures and a somewhat superstitious way of trying to align your days with the will of God.
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Life is complicated, humans are alternately kind and cruel, and Scriptures incorporated without embarrassment internal conflicts — such as those multiple versions of the Ten Commandments, or the varying accounts of the life of Jesus from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Just days later, Sisi pardoned 82 prisoners, among them Islam Behery, a former TV host and prominent leader of a growing neo-Mu'tazilah-style movement that claims Islamic scriptures are man-made and should not overrule reason and critical thinking.
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At the nearby Durbar Square, a UNESCO-listed world heritage site, a dozen crimson-robed monks chanted from Buddhist scriptures at a memorial as the victims' relatives sat cross-legged, praying, in front of framed portraits of their loved ones.
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The three holy texts—Torah, Gospel, and Quran—turn out to be tightly interwound, so much so that it is not entirely wrong to see the Quran as a long correction to and commentary on the Jewish and Christian scriptures.
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I'm not a scholar of rabbinic teaching by a long shot, but I knew about the tradition within Judaism of commenting upon the Scriptures, pulling ethical, religious, and philosophical interpretations from the text that often go way beyond what's actually there.
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And Holy Scriptures emphatically do not want women to have access to comprehensive, twenty-first–century reproductive medical care; for good measure, the CIT manual also directs congregants to literature that insists on male "headship" at church and at home.
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"For the first time, Fleabag: The Scriptures brings together the complete filming scripts of Fleabag series one and two, annotated with never-before-seen stage directions, as well as brand new writing from Phoebe Waller-Bridge," the book's synopsis reads.
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The most novel aspect of Wood's book is that he shows, convincingly, that the stifling and abhorrent practices of the Islamic State are rooted in Islam itself — not mainstream Islam, but in scriptures and practices that have persisted for centuries.
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But I've studied the scriptures carefully, especially the gospels and Paul's letters, and I see no reason to capitulate to this downsized version of Easter weekend, with a vengeful God putting up his own son on a cross for satisfaction of some kind.
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Still, the disciplinary action is the most serious setback for the Episcopal Church and other Anglican provinces that support gay rights since the conflict erupted in earnest over how to interpret what the Scriptures say about gay people and same-sex marriage.
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"Whenever Romans 13 was used in the 18th and 19th century — and Sessions seems to be doing the same thing, so in this sense there is some continuity — it's a way of manipulating the scriptures to justify your own political agenda," Fea said.
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Both the Koran and the Hebrew scriptures explain that the need for clothes in the ordinary sense arose only after a terrible act of wilfulness which left man estranged from God, suddenly conscious of a nakedness that needed to be covered up.
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A conviction shared by all theorists of everything, from the authors of the Hindu scriptures to Baruch Spinoza to astrophysicists, is that everything is a very big thing indeed — so vast and multifarious that it can never be fully described or inventoried.
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The international community could be doing much more, through development assistance and trade deals, to encourage businesses and states hosting refugees to see the upside of people's hands being occupied and not idle (the World Bank and the Scriptures agree on this).
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Neighbors say Judge Srinivasan's grandfather, Padmanabhan Iyer, was neither rich nor powerful, but his ability to commit scriptures to memory made him an object of awe: He was capable of chanting mantras for two hours without as much as glancing at a text.
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Mahesh Sharma, India's culture minister and an avowed follower of the RSS, has said he hopes to rewrite the conventional narrative about India as a multicultural tapestry, and to inculcate the belief that the ancient Hindu scriptures are historical facts, not legends.
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Others are nervous about some evangelical readings of the scriptures in which the Jews' return to the Biblical land is instrumental in bringing about the end of the world, at which point those who do not accept Jesus Christ will not be saved.
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And she would take these verses that Christians used to clobber us over the head and tell us we're going to go to hell, she would break these Scriptures down and show that they didn't mean what they were being used for.
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In a further gesture of outreach to the Israeli mainstream, Mr. Odeh quoted from Psalms 118:22, telling Mr. Rivlin, in Hebrew, "The stone that the builders rejected has now become the cornerstone" — a verse cited in Jewish and Christian scriptures and liturgies.
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Though she ironically alludes to Ham in an epigraph from the 19th-century explorer John Hanning Speke — "I profess accurately to describe naked Africa … a striking existing proof of the Holy Scriptures" — the joke is how thoroughly her novel snubs his Victorian myopia.
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One of the admonitions that comprise Buddhism's eightfold patch is to practise samma vaca, or "right speech", which scriptures define as abstaining from false, slanderous, harsh and idle speech; all major religions counsel their adherents to choose their words carefully and use them sparingly.
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As Dr. Bert Ashe, professor of English and American studies at the University of Richmond, points out in his forthcoming book Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles, the first written evidence is in what is now India's Vedic scriptures, which show the deity Shiva wearing the style.
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Instead, acknowledging the essential "oneness" of all human affairs (a singularity hailed by as varied a group as Marcus Aurelius, Lucretius and the Jewish Scriptures, not to mention Hinduism and Buddhism) Adam Smith sought to understand the best possible market for exchanging goods and services.
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The suit alleges that Barnell Williams, a former nursing assistant at Lasata Care Center, requested an exemption from a center policy requiring flu vaccinations "because of her sincerely held religious belief that Bible-based scriptures prohibited flu shots," according to a statement from the department.
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In much the same way that some Christians point to evidence of an ancient flood substantiating the Biblical tale of Noah and his ark, if the settings and features of the ancient scriptures in India can be verified, the thinking goes, then the stories are true.
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"The devil... said to him, 'If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written [in the Scriptures], "He will give his angels charge of you," and "On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.
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He had also had some enjoyable conversations with members of the Divinity Faculty which made him think that collaborating with them might be beneficial for one of his longer-term projects: a series of commentaries on the Hebrew scriptures which had already attracted millions of followers.
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Galileo was teaching in the city when his restless young mind began to have ideas about the universe that would bring him into conflict with the religious authorities, with their dogged attachment to an older cosmology based on that of Aristotle as well as the scriptures.
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" McDonald and others who don't believe pastors or congregants should be armed cite many of the same scriptures: Jesus rebukes a disciple who brandishes a sword to defend him, telling him in Matthew 26:52, "For all who take the sword will perish by the sword.
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In fact, in some ways Saudi Arabia is a mirror image of the culturally hegemonic dystopia that Mr. Wilders dreams of: a land where the scriptures and shrines of a foreign religion are banned — not the Quran and mosques, in this case, but the Bible and churches.
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