Sacred text

Many religions and spiritual movements believe that their sacred texts (or scriptures) are the "Word of God", often feeling that the texts are wholly divine or spiritually inspired in origin. Even non-believers often capitalize the names of sacred scriptures as a mark of respect or tradition.

Texts

Sacred texts of various religions:

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• Ayyavazhi
• The Akilattirattu Ammanai
• The Arul Nool
• Bahá'í Faith
• The Kitáb-i-Aqdas
• Kitáb-i-Íqán
• and many other writings including ones from other faiths
• Buddhism
• The Tipitaka or Pali canon
• and other Buddhist texts
• Christianity - The Bible (also referred to as the Holy Writ)
• Catholicism
• The Bible, The Apocrypha
• Mormonism
• The Bible
• Book of Mormon
• Pearl of Great Price
• Doctrine and Covenants
• Confucianism
• The Analects of Confucius
• also The I Ching
• Discordianism
• The Principia Discordia although this may not be true for every sect.
• Falun Gong
• The Zhuan Falun
• Hinduism
• Shruti
• Smriti
• Islam
• The Qur'an
• Ahadith
• Jainism
• Tattvartha Sutra
• Judaism
• The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh = Torah)
• Nevi'im
• Ketuvim)
• Mandaeanism
• The Ginza Rba
• Manichaeism
• The Arzhang
• Mohism
• The Mozi
• Various New Age religions may regard any of the following texts as inspired:
• A Course in Miracles (ACIM)
• Conversations with God
• The Urantia Book
• Oahspe
• Swedenborgianism
• The Bible
• The writings of Emanuel Swedenborg
• Some also consider a number of posthumously published manuscripts of Swedenborg to also be sacred.
• Rastafari movement
• The Bible
• the Holy Piby
• Samaritanism
• The Samaritan Pentateuch
• Satanism
• The Satanic Bible
• Sikhism
• The Guru Granth Sahib
• The Dasam Granth Sahib
• Taoism
• The Tao-te-ching
• The I Ching
• Thelema
• The Holy Books of Thelema especially Liber Al vel Legis
• Zoroastrianism
• The Zend-Avesta