bible
圣经,圣书,圣典
Definitions
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- : the collection of sacred writings of the Christian religion, comprising the Old and New Testaments.
- : Hebrew Bible.
- : Often bible . the sacred writings of any religion.
- : bible, any book, reference work, periodical, etc., accepted as authoritative, informative, or reliable: He regarded that particular bird book as the birdwatchers' bible.
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Examples
She still balanced her checkbook, and spent her days doing crossword puzzles and poring over her Bible.
Some defend the Pences by claiming they “just follow the Bible.”
First and foremost, as the Bible says, love your neighbor as you love yourself.
This conviction has deep roots in Christian thought, it can be traced to the authors of the Bible and early Jewish and Christian communities.
Nonetheless, some parts of the Bible have been used to justify the quelling of social unrest.
And “what kind of person,” Steinberg asks, “dares to write a sequel to the Bible?”
It needs to be said: bigotry in the name of religion is still bigotry; child abuse wrapped in a Bible verse is still child abuse.
No more allowing people to justify their bigotry by spouting a cherry-picked Bible verse.
He stated—quite rightly—that animals are never mentioned in connection with eternal life in the Bible.
In the Bible, Moses does kill a guy—the Egyptian slave master who is beating an Israelite to death.
There seems something in that also which I could spare only very reluctantly from a new Bible in the world.
Each religion claims that its own Bible is the direct revelation of God, and is the only true Bible teaching the only true faith.
And furthermore, I imagine something else about this—quite unlike the old Bible—I imagine all of it periodically revised.
Is the Bible revelation so clear and explicit that no difference of opinion as to its meaning is possible?
I shall therefore, in my effort to prove the Bible fallible, quote almost wholly from Christian critics.