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Most religions have religious texts they view as sacred. Many religions and spiritual movements believe that their sacred texts are wholly divine or spiritually inspired in origin. Monotheistic religions often view their sacred texts as the "Word of God", often feeling that the texts are inspired by God. Even non-believers often capitalize the names of sacred scriptures as a mark of respect or tradition. Another interpretation of the "Word of God" is that it was with the power of the Word that God brought into existence Heaven and Earth, and that this power continues to maintain a balance (i.e the movement of the planets and stars, cycles of nature). This is akin to the concept of the Greek Logos or the Chinese Tao.
The Rigveda of Hinduism was likely composed between roughly 1500–1300 BCE, making it one of the world's oldest religious texts. The oldest portions of the Zoroastrian Avesta are believed to have been transmitted orally for centuries before they found written form, and although widely differing dates for Gathic Avestan (the language of the oldest texts) have been proposed, scholarly consensus floats at around 1000 BCE (roughly contemporary to the Brahmana period of Vedic Sanskrit).
The first printed scripture for wide distribution to the masses was The Diamond Sutra, a Buddhist scripture, printed in the year 868 CE.
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Beliefnet: Sacred Texts - Links to a wide selection of full texts, including Baha'i sacred writings, the Dhammapada, Confucian Analects, Tao-Te Ching, several versions of the Bible, Hadith, Sunnah, and Wiccan and neo-pagan texts.
Holy Books of the World - Brief descriptions of a selection of mostly historic religious texts. No links to actual texts.
I Love God - Sacred texts of various religions and online shop.
Meta Description: [ Site containing sacred texts of various religions. Enables visitors to read, share, print, search and download sacred texts. ]
Internet Sacred Text Archive - Archive of primary texts relating to all major world religions and many other spiritual practices, including all major scriptures and hundreds of other documents. Documents are public domain English translations and original languages.
Online Bibles and Religious Texts - Collection of links to online texts; mostly Biblical but also includes links for the Koran and Book of Mormon.
Points to Click: Religious Texts Online - Online Journalism Review article on finding online religious texts.
Religious Resources: Electronic Texts - KJV and RSV Bible, Book of Mormon, and Koran, from the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia.
Religious Texts and Resources - Links to a wide variety of online primary religious and sacred texts, together with the archives of religious texts from the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Computer Analysis of Texts.
Religious Texts in the Etext Archives - Selection of online texts, including poems in praise of Abirami, the Dawn-Breakers, multiple Buddhist texts, the Nag-Hammadi, the Quran, Rosicrucian writings, and the Aazhvaar paasurams.
World Prayers - Gathering the great prayers from spiritual traditions around the world into a common archive.
Meta Description: [ Gathering the great prayers from all spiritual traditions around the world into a unified prayer archive for the purpose of inspiration, study and cross cultural appreciation. This is a growing collection of historically important prayers. ]
World Religious Texts - The Golden Rule in various religions.
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