Holy Scriptures Quotes

“Each religion makes scores of purportedly factual assertions about everything from the creation of the universe to the afterlife. But on what grounds can believers presume to know that these assertions are true? The reasons they give are various, but the ultimate justification for most religious people’s beliefs is a simple one: we believe what we believe because our holy scriptures say so. But how, then, do we know that our holy scriptures are factually accurate? Because the scriptures themselves say so. Theologians specialize in weaving elaborate webs of verbiage to avoid saying anything quite so bluntly, but this gem of circular reasoning really is the epistemological bottom line on which all 'faith' is grounded. In the words of Pope John Paul II: 'By the authority of his absolute transcendence, God who makes himself known is also the source of the credibility of what he reveals.' It goes without saying that this begs the question of whether the texts at issue really were authored or inspired by God, and on what grounds one knows this. 'Faith' is not in fact a rejection of reason, but simply a lazy acceptance of bad reasons. 'Faith' is the pseudo-justification that some people trot out when they want to make claims without the necessary evidence.

But of course we never apply these lax standards of evidence to the claims made in the other fellow’s holy scriptures: when it comes to religions other than one’s own, religious people are as rational as everyone else. Only our own religion, whatever it may be, seems to merit some special dispensation from the general standards of evidence.

And here, it seems to me, is the crux of the conflict between religion and science. Not the religious rejection of specific scientific theories (be it heliocentrism in the 17th century or evolutionary biology today); over time most religions do find some way to make peace with well-established science. Rather, the scientific worldview and the religious worldview come into conflict over a far more fundamental question: namely, what constitutes evidence.

Science relies on publicly reproducible sense experience (that is, experiments and observations) combined with rational reflection on those empirical observations. Religious people acknowledge the validity of that method, but then claim to be in the possession of additional methods for obtaining reliable knowledge of factual matters — methods that go beyond the mere assessment of empirical evidence — such as intuition, revelation, or the reliance on sacred texts. But the trouble is this: What good reason do we have to believe that such methods work, in the sense of steering us systematically (even if not invariably) towards true beliefs rather than towards false ones? At least in the domains where we have been able to test these methods — astronomy, geology and history, for instance — they have not proven terribly reliable. Why should we expect them to work any better when we apply them to problems that are even more difficult, such as the fundamental nature of the universe?

Last but not least, these non-empirical methods suffer from an insuperable logical problem: What should we do when different people’s intuitions or revelations conflict? How can we know which of the many purportedly sacred texts — whose assertions frequently contradict one another — are in fact sacred?”
― Alan Sokal

“But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.”
― 1 Thessalonians 4:13 KJV Paul The Apostle

“Despite having all the names of the Devil in the scriptures, they are still considered holy.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Study the Holy Scriptures to know your Sovereign Lord.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“If you ignore the instructions of the Holy Scriptures, you stumble in sin.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“There is nothing satisfactory to the soul like meditation on the holy scriptures.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“If you wish to know the will of God, you desire to study the Holy Scriptures.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“If you desire to be holy, you will read the Holy Scriptures.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“There is no certain hope like to believe the holy scriptures.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Meditate in holy scriptures if you desire to grow strong in spirit.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Meditate on the holy scriptures, if you desire to grow strong in spirit.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“There is no healing like to heed to the words of the Holy Scripture.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The prophecy of Holy Scriptures is the powerful God himself speaking to mankind.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The knowledge of Holy Scriptures is able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, the Saviour.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The reality of Holy Scripture is far better than the reason of human mind.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The prophesy of the Holy scriptures is assurance of God's faithfulness to fulfill the promises.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“When you pray in tongues regularly, God will give you prayer points in understanding (via dreams and visions) that you will have to pray according to scriptures and also in tongues.”
― Gabriel Ladokun

“My mind is only captived by the words of the Holy Scriptures.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The Holy Scriptures shows the Supremacy of God.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Meditate on the Holy Scriptures, if you wish to be strong in spirit.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The Holy Scriptures speaks of divine things.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The Holy Scriptures are enough evidence of the existence of God.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Am only satisfied the words of Holy Scriptures.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“There is no substitute for the Holy Scriptures.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“My spirit and my soul both are satisfied from meditation on the Holy Scriptures.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“We must hear from God himself through diligent study of the Holy Scriptures”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Whoever reads the Holy Scriptures constantly, shall pray constantly.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Wise wisdom is the Holy word of God.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The best literature, still with ancient power in forming character while shaping conduct is the Holy Scriptures”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The Holy Scriptures are facts that gives faith.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita