Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
10 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
What is sacred?
|
Mysterious indescribable force.
|
|
|
What is religion?
|
A system of beliefs that includes sacred stories, doctrines, rituals, ethics, and a moral code that attempts to connect people with the sacred.
|
|
|
What is scripture?
|
The sacred writings of a religion that are considered authoritative because people read scripture to learn what is right and wrong.
|
|
|
What is oral scripture?
|
Sacred stories that have not been written down.
|
|
|
What is the difference between oral scripture and scripture?
|
Oral scripture are sacred stories that have not been written down, scriptures are written sacred stories.
|
|
|
What are sacred stories?
|
Found in scripture that teach the cultural concepts and language of a religious tradition.
|
|
|
What is Canon?
|
The official list of sacred scriptures. The Bible contains the officially recognized canon of Christian scriptures.
|
|
|
What is apocrypha?
|
Help people to understand the sacred texts of scripture.
|
|
|
What is metaphor?
|
A metaphor is a figure of speech, a symbolic expression. It is the use of somthing familiar to help people understand something that is unfamiliar to them.
|
|
|
What is analogy?
|
The direct comparison of the sacred with something that is familiar.
|
