If there are three readings, the first is from the Old Testament ( a term wider than " Hebrew Scriptures ", since it includes the Deuterocanonical Books ), or the Acts of the Apostles during Eastertide.

FitzRoy's account includes a section of Remarks with reference to the Deluge in which he admits that having read works " by geologists who contradict, by implication, if not in plain terms, the authenticity of the Scriptures " and " while led away by sceptical ideas " he had remarked to a friend that the vast plain of sedimentary material they were crossing " could never have been effected by a forty days ' flood " indicating that in his " turn of mind and ignorance of scripture " he was willing to disbelieve the Biblical account.

Doctrine includes belief in the Trinity ; the inspiration of the Scriptures ; the Baptism of the Holy Ghost with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues ; the Virgin Birth of Jesus Christ ; the death, burial and resurrection of Christ ; and His imminent, personal, premillennial second coming.

In her autobiography, Retrospection and Introspection, Eddy writes " I then withdrew from society about three years ,-- to ponder my mission, to search the Scriptures, to find the Science of Mind that should take the things of God and show them to the creature, and reveal the great curative Principle, -- Deity.

:* The Gap Principle :" God, in the Jewish Scriptures, ignores certain periods of time, leaping over them without comment.

The term ruach ha-kodesh ( Hebrew: רוח הקודש, " holy spirit " also transliterated ruah ha-qodesh ) occurs once in Psalm 51: 11 and also twice in the Book of Isaiah Those are the only three times that the precise phrase " ruach hakodesh " is used in the Hebrew Scriptures, although the noun ruach ( רוח, literally " breath " or " wind ") in various combinations, some referring to God's " spirit ", is used often.

* Excerpts Out Of Divine Scriptures: Book One ( a. k. a. Chapters )

The proper interpretation of the Scriptures was seen as part of the faith of the Church, and seen indeed as the manner in which Biblical authority was upheld ( see Book of Acts 15: 28-29 ).

Eddy ’ s book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures has been a best seller for decades, and was selected as one of the “ 75 Books By Women Whose Words Have Changed The World ,” by the Women's National Book Association.

Gabriel is mentioned in the Book of Daniel, in the Hebrew Scriptures where he is sent as a messenger of YHWH ( see God in Judaism ) to Daniel during the Jewish captivity in Babylon.

There, he wrote a number of his major works: " De fide Trinitatis libri III " (" On Faith in the Trinity: Three Books "), " Eclogarum ex divinis Scripturis liber primus " (" Excerpts out of Divine Scriptures: One Book "), and " Commentarii in epistolas S. Pauli " (" Commentary on the Epistles of Saint Paul ").

* Excerpts Out of Divine Scriptures: One Book ( a. k. a. Chapters )

Member bodies of the ILC hold " an unconditional commitment to the Holy Scriptures as the inspired and infallible Word of God and to the Lutheran Confessions contained in the Book of Concord as the true and faithful exposition of the Word of God.

The Holy Scriptures are set forth in the Book of Concord to be the sole, divine source and norm of all Christian doctrine.

This is also called a " quia " ( because ) subscription to the Lutheran confessions, i. e. one subscribes because the Book of Concord is a faithful exposition of the Scriptures.

* Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, reprint of the 8th edition ( Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1970 ).

This project was undertaken at the time of the Reformation in the work of Erasmus of Rotterdam ( who remained a Catholic ), Martin Luther ( who was an Augustinian priest and led the Reformation, translating the Scriptures into his native German ), and John Calvin ( who was a student of law and theology at the Sorbonne where he became acquainted with the Reformation, and began studying Scripture in the original languages, eventually writing a text-based commentary upon the entire Christian Old Testament and New Testament except the Book of Revelation ).

Quia subscription ( the Book of Concord is adhered to because it is faithful to the Scriptures ) implies that the subscriber believes that there is no contradiction between the Book of Concord and the Scriptures.

Quatenus subscription ( the Book of Concord is adhered to insofar as it is faithful to the Scriptures ) implies that the subscriber leaves room for the possibility that there might be a contradiction of the Scriptures in the Book of Concord in which case the subscriber would hold to the Scriptures against the Book of Concord.

He also wrote a history of Alfred the Great ( 1816 ); a life of St. Vincent de Paul ; translated passages from the works of St. Augustine, and also wrote meditations on the Holy Scriptures, which, however, together with the Büchlein der Liebe, and the polemical pamphlet Kurze Abfertigung des langen Schmähschrifts des Hofrats Voss, did not appear until after his death.

The introduction of the Great Bible in 1538 brought a vernacular translation of the Scriptures into churches.

The church declares its goal to be " faithful to the Scriptures, true to the Reformed faith, and obedient to the Great Commission.

) treats of theology or mythology, and winds up with an account of the Holy Scriptures and of the Fathers, from Ignatius and Dionysius the Areopagite to Jerome and Gregory the Great, and even of later writers from Isidore and Bede, through Alcuin, Lanfranc and Anselm, down to Bernard of Clairvaux and the brethren of St Victor.

Some students of the historical Jesus, who do not believe the Scriptures are infallible or God's very words, as held by what may be called conservative evangelicalism, generally discount the Great Commission as reflecting not Jesus ' words but rather the Christian community in which each gospel was written.

As to the High Priesthood, Jesus Christ himself is the last Great High Priest, this too after the order of Melchisedec, as I understand the Holy Scriptures.

* It may be an ad hoc Coptic construction signifying both ' Great Emission ' ( according to Bentley Layton's The Gnostic Scriptures ) and ' Seed ' according to F. C.

* A multi-volume set in Hebrew only, often but not always including the entire Tanakh with masoretic notes ( sometimes ), Targumim and several classical commentaries, is referred to as Mikraot Gedolot " Great Scriptures.

The Mikraot Gedolot ( מקראות גדולות ) " Great Scriptures ," often called the " Rabbinic Bible " in English, is an

Although Brunner re-emphasized the centrality of Christ, evangelical and fundamentalist theologians, mainly those from America and Great Britain, have usually rejected Brunner's other teachings, including his dismissal of certain miraculous elements within the Scriptures and his questioning of the usefulness of the doctrine of the inspiration of the Bible.

The highest honorary title, Tripitakavagisvaracarya ( Supreme Master of Buddhist Scriptures ), was given him by Sri Kalyapi Samagri Sangha-sabha ( the Chapter of the Sangha in Sri Lanka ) in 1965, with the qualification Sri ( Gracious ), a title held by only two or three scholars in Sri Lanka.

A German Requiem, To Words of the Holy Scriptures, Op.

The legend is also found cited in compendiums of historical sources from later periods, for example Gottfried Leibniz's Scriptures rerum Brunsvicensium ( 1710 ) and the Anthologia veterum latinorum epigrammatum et poematum ( 1835 ).

Interpretation as the literal, ' plain meaning ' implies ( i. e. rejection of typological and allegorical methods, although not rejecting types or allegories as being present in the Scriptures per se ).

Christian Science teaches that we are not Christians until we " go and do likewise ," until we in some degree " come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ ," as it says in the Scriptures ( Ephesians 4: 13 ).

World Scriptures: An Introduction to Comparative Religions ( Paulist Press, 1986 ).

* Van Voorst, Robert E. Anthology of World Scriptures ( Thomson Wadsworth, 2005 ).

It exists in all men alike ; it is a culprit and yet an unconscious witness by its impulse to worship, its fear of demons, and its musings on death to the power, benignity, and judgment of God as revealed in the Christian's Scriptures ( De testimonio, v-vi ).

* Patrick Navas, Divine Truth or Human Tradition: A Reconsideration of the Roman Catholic-Protestant Doctrine of the Trinity in Light of the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures ( Bloomington, Indiana 2007 ).

According to the ancient Hindu Scriptures, it is said to have covered an area of, and was the capital of the powerful Hindu kingdom of Kosala ( Kaushal ).

There are three modes of material nature ( guna ), as described in the Vedas and other Indian Scriptures: Sattva ( goodness, maintenance, stillness, intelligence ), Rajas ( passion, creation, energy, activity ), and Tamas ( ignorance, restraint, inertia, destruction ).

The meaning of Scripture was seen as proven from the Faith universally held in the churches ( see Phil 2: 1, Acts 4: 32 ), and the correctness of that universal Faith was seen as proven from the Scriptures and apostolic Sacred Tradition ( see 2 The 2: 15, 2 The 3: 6, 1 Corinthians 11: 2 ).

Other noted New Testament commentary authors include: Joseph Shulam, who has written commentaries on Acts, Romans, and Galatians ; Arnold Fruchtenbaum of Ariel Ministries, who has written commentaries on the Epistles, Judges & Ruth, and Genesis, and 7 systematic doctrinal studies ; Tim Hegg of TorahResource, who has written commentaries on Romans, Galatians, Hebrews, and is presently examining Matthew ; Daniel Thomas Lancaster, who has written extensively for the First Fruits of Zion Torah Club series ; Stuart Sacks, author of Hebrews Through a Hebrews ' Eyes ; and J. K. McKee of TNN Online who has written several volumes under the byline " for the Practical Messianic " ( James, Hebrews, Philippians, Galatians, and surveys of both the Tanakh and the Apostolic Scriptures ).

It literally means what penance Yashoda had undertaken in her previous birth to be bestowed upon with the powers to punish, love, and care for the Supreme Lord Vishnu ( Lord Satyanarayana also known as Emperor of Gods in Hindu Scriptures ).

She is the author of the movement's textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and founded the Christian Science Publishing Society ( 1898 ), which continues to publish a number of periodicals including The Christian Science Monitor ( 1908 ).

The doctrine aides, then, in interpreting the Scriptures so as to avoid paradox — as when Scripture says, for example, that the creation is " very good ", and also that " none is good but God alone "— since only God is goodness, while nevertheless humanity is created in the likeness of goodness ( and the likeness is necessarily imperfect in humanity, unless that person is also God ).

A further English edition was published in 1987, by Yale scholar Bentley Layton, called The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations ( Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1987 ).

12 )-especially among Christians, whose sin, since they alone had the Scriptures, was worse than that of barbarians, even if equally wicked, would be ( v. 2 ).

Even though no amount of obedience to laws saves anyone ( Ephesians 2: 8 – 9, Titus 3: 5 ), the Scriptures also state that those who are saved have been created in order to do good works ( Ephesians 2: 10 ).

In a Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, Galileo defended heliocentrism, and claimed it was not contrary to Scriptures ( see Galileo affair ).

Witness Lee taught that prophesying means to predict a future event or outcome, to speak for, or to speak forth the Lord ( namely, His Word, the Scriptures ).

The Bibelwerk was translated into English, enlarged and revised under the general editorship of Philip Schaff, with assistance of other scholars from the United States of various denominations, under the title A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures, Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical ( 25 vols., New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1865-80 ).

In the Christian Scriptures, the term eirene is employed to mean peace, but in its application, seeking for it the transcendence of its Hebrew counterpart, peace is better understood in relation to terms like grace ( Romans 1. 7 ), righteousness ( Romans 14. 17 ), and life ( Romans 8. 6 ).

It is also employed in benedictions, like that in I Thessalonians 5. 23 and Hebrews 13. 20-21, perhaps making echo to prayers of peace common throughout the Hebrew Scriptures and Jewish benedictions ( Numbers 6. 22-27 ).

Feisal Abdul Rauf, a Muslim imam writes that the phrase “ In God we trust ” resonates with Islamic teaching, offering two verses from the Qur ’ an: " Our Lord, we have indeed heard a Crier calling to faith, saying ' Trust in your Lord, so we have trusted ..." ( Quran 3: 193 ) or " messenger and the believers trust in God, in His Angels, His Scriptures, His Books and His Messengers ..." ( Quran 2: 285 ).

They adopted the name Central Baptist " as an indication of our acceptance of the Holy Scriptures in their entirety, varying neither to the right or left " ( Minutes, 1996, p. 4 ).