sacred books
27 subentries
- sacred books. See also New Testament; Old Testament; Rig-Veda
- almost completely absent in Greece (98:2.7)
- arrant fetishism to let a chance passage determine one’s decisions (88:2.8)
- beliefs altered by mythmaking tendency (4:5.1)
- believers should reject authority of traditions regarded as word of God (155:6.2)
- blunder to miraculously interpret certain epochs of history (97:8.5)
- erroneous doctrine of perfection of scriptures (159:4.6)
- fetish that every truth is contained therein (88:2.7)
- find word of God not only on pages of s.b. (155:6.12)
- finding plausible theories to justify outworn customs (92:2.3)
- Ganid’s abstracts from (Paper 131)
- give up practice of always quoting Scriptures (155:6.7)
- intellectually dishonest teachers of (159:4.10)
- Jesus appropriated the cream of the Scriptures, repudiated the lesser (159:5.1-9)
- Jesus’ talk with Nathaniel concerning Scriptures (159:4sec)
- Koran. See Islam
- nature
- deleterious agency of religion (91:5.6)
- fail to distinguish Deity from subordinate personalities (4:5.2)
- faulty, altogether human in origin (159:4.3)
- fetishistic prisons incarcerating man’s spiritual imagination (88:2.6-10)
- in agreement on relationship of God with man (130:3.6)
- not sealed books of mystery (159:4.9)
- not written as infallible guidebook (97:7.3)
- relics of barbarism retained within (70:10.8)
- winnowed moral wisdom of many centuries (88:2.9)
- Paul little dreamed his letters would be regarded as word of God (98:7.9) (149:2.2)
- Scriptures invoked to support contending views of Messiah (136:1.1) (172:3.4)
Cross-references
- See Islam
- See also New Testament
- See also Old Testament
- See also Rig-Veda
Cited alongside
Headwords that cite the same paragraphs as this one, commonest first. The number is how many subentries each has.
- Old Testament 50
- religion 371
- word of God 9
- Jews 63
- traditions 14
- truth 92
- ceremonies 35
- Christian church, early 77