Religious text
Many religions and other belief systems hold certain texts to be sacred. Some believe that their sacred texts are wholly or partially divine in origin. Some religions use the term Word of God to describe their sacred texts.
Sacred texts for various religions and religious sects:
- Christianity: The Christian Bible
- Christian Science: The Christian Bible, Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures
- Confucianism: The Analects of Confucius
- Hinduism: The Bhagavad Gita
- Islam: The Koran
- Judaism: The Jewish Bible (Tanach), the Talmud, the Torah
- Neopaganism: The Charge of the Goddess
- Nichiren Buddhism: The Gohonzon
- Mahayana Buddhism: Lankavatara Sutra
- Mormonism: The Bible, the Book of Mormon, Pearl of Great Price
- Sikhism: The Guru Granth Sahib
- Taoism: The Tao-te-ching
- Zoroastrianism: The Zend-Avesta
- Various New Age religions may consider any of the several texts to be sacred:
- and many more...