Scripture

Scripture is a sacred religious text.

In the West, it often refers to the Bible, but other books of scriptures also exist.

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The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
The Holy Bible: King James Version
Taking God At His Word: Why the Bible Is Knowable, Necessary, and Enough, and What That Means for You and Me
Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV)
The Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
The Bhagavad Gita
القرآن الكريم
Holy Bible: New International Version
Pearl of Great Price
Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price
Genesis (Bible, #1)
Words of Life: Scripture as the Living and Active Word of God
Tao Te Ching

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God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

Steven Pinker
The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to rationalize the massacre of infidels, the ownership of women, the beating of children, dominion over animals, and the persecution of heretics and homosexuals. Humanitarian reforms such as the elimination of cruel punishment, the dissemination of empathy-inducing novels, and the abolition of slavery were met with fierce opposition in their time b ...more
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