According to the scriptural account, these were invented on a day-to-day basis as the Buddha encountered various behavior problems with the monks.

Faith: the story of Eyring's efforts to reconcile scriptural accounts of the Creation with modern scientific findings.

As early as the 1740s, scholars had deployed what we would now recognise as a valid historical methodology for questioning the veracity of scriptural accounts.

For the lay congregation, scriptural accounts are regarded as literal history, a self-contained story no less true for being divorced from an historical context.

By this time, the Magdalene, the Virgin and others of those closest to Jesus had disappeared, and there is no further mention of them in scriptural accounts.

According to the scriptural accounts, the reason the Buddha gave for his actions was that admission of women to the sangha would weaken it and shorten its lifetime to 500 years.

The sculpture, created by Mission San Jose Sister Justina Niemierski, depicts a "scriptural account of the whole of salvation history."

According to the scriptural account, when the Buddha delivered the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, he was addressing five ascetics with whom he had previously practiced severe austerities.

Mary is also included, though this is not mentioned in any of the scriptural accounts, in depictions of the Ascension of Jesus.

As the underlying basis for astrology, historical and scriptural accounts provide evidence the belief has long been held by man.