Sentences with phrase «ancient is still»

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Today, most businesses still use these ancient artifacts because for years, faxing was the only way to exchange documents that needed signing or reading.

You see, the same problem existed in ancient Babylon that existed in 1926 and still exists today: most people are broke.

Most of them were still using ancient tactics, such as advertising on billboards and wishful thinking.

In the shadows of these ultramodern buildings, the ancient Malay village of Kampung Baru still thrives, with free - roaming roosters and a slow pace of life that's usually only to be found in the most rural of villages.

Apple was still almost completely dependent for its profits on the ancient Apple II, which Jobs and Steve Wozniak had co-designed way back in 1977.

Bitcoin Core proved in a huge way that they are not ancient dinosaurs, who can be ignored, but rather the people Bitcoin users still listen to and trust.

Let's teach kids that primitive people still cling to ancient folklore, but that those beliefs are no more reasonable than believing the Easter Bunny lays colored eggs.

It's one of those ancient fear things that was created hundreds of years ago when people still believed that bad things can happen to you if you don't believe in God and obey Him.

Still, it may be worth pondering that in this brave new world, those who uphold the old and much derided «gender binary» — or, to speak more properly, the ancient understanding that there is a real and normative difference between the sexes — will be the ones who can actually see some sort of meaning, however misguided, in things like same - sex desire and gender dysphoria.

[10] I make known the end from the begin - ning, from ancient times, what is still to come.

The claim was a simple thing to do in ancient times because scientifically ignorant people still did not know why the sun rose and set and why the seasons changed and why lightning and why thunder and why earthquakes and why disease and why just about anything... so people all thought that a god or gods controlled it all.

Yet the ancient belief in transmutation is still with us.

I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come.

If you are still seeking even more accuracy, then learn Greek and Ancient Hebrew, and have at the Dead Sea Scrolls and copies of the original letters of the early Christians.

On a far higher level, intellectually and spiritually, is that very noble philosophical poem called the Wisdom of Solomon, and that still nobler monument of ancient Hebrew thought, the Book of Job, a dramatic dialogue in splendid and sonorous verse upon the theme of suffering and its place in a providential order.

Scapegoating was an ancient ritual in many Middle Eastern tribes (probably still is in some).

Still, the themes of «scattering the proud» and «putting down» the mighty, while elevating the lowly in their stead, are an important part of the symbolism of comedy, and of the ancient repertoire of clowns and fools.

In local communities, Hassler suggests, ancient truths abide: words retain their power to save or ruin lives, good and evil can yet be distinguished, people remain accountable for their acts, and sin, penance, and absolution are still valid coin of the realm.

Latin is an ancient language still in use but is not in any way an ethnicity or a race.

The case may be pressed with claims of power and promises of blessing, but still the ancient one trembles and waits for an answer.

On the other hand, the image of some large beast passing through a needle's eye, as a piquant figure for something impossible, is found in other ancient Near Eastern sources, and the vastly preponderant weight of textual evidence still favors the contortionist dromedary over the elastic hawser.

They are generally based on ancient books full of known fallacies that followers still believe today.

Dalahäst Depends on whether it's actually still «wisdom» that the ancients included in their holy books, right?

They are not generally based on ancient books full of known fallacies that followers still believe today.

we are direct descendants of the Egyptians living at the times of the pharaohs and the greeks that have come afterwards... we still use the ancient demotic language (spoken ancient Egyptian) in our liturgies and prayers.

Still the flavor of the ancient idea was recognizable when Isaiah saw the Most High seated on his throne, with the seraphim chanting above him, «Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of hosts.»

We are still at war, of course, but the situation of the Church has materially altered, and I suspect that, by comparison to the burden the First Commandment lays upon us today, the defeat of the ancient pantheon, and the elemental spirits, and the demons lurking behind them will prove to have been sublimely easy.

In this age of science and discovery, it's tragic that some people still cling to ancient myths.

He remembers the word of the simple sage of ancient times: «This, that a man's eye can not see by the light by which the majority see could be because he is used to darkness; but it could also be because he is used to a still clearer light, and when this is so, it is no laughing matter.»

Damascus, a great trading center on the western border of the Fertile Crescent, is a very ancient city — perhaps the oldest anywhere in the world which still exists — while Antioch is famous for the fact that here the followers of Christ were first called Christians.

Although the ancient Yemenite civilization which found its stimulus in its favorable climate and trade is no more, the latent human and natural resources of the country are still there and will come to the fore when they have security from foreign invasion and can introduce modernization and democratic rule.

Upon his return to Rome, he affirmed that Christianity was still «strong and active» in Britain, despite many challenges, and shared his «profound conviction» that «the ancient nations of Europe have a Christian soul.»

Even though the Bible was pointing away from the gods of ancient man, it was still forced to use the God - language of ancient man.

You know all of that, but you're still able to hear these as true stories, as metaphorical narratives using ancient archetypal language to make, among other affirmations, that Jesus is the light coming into the darkness, to make the affirmation that the Herods of this world constantly seek to destroy that which is born of God.

The ancient pagan rituals were still «god» based....

I am still in my rookie season when it comes to preaching, but I have quickly learned that what keeps a crowd's attention is a pastor who can explain how the Bible, an ancient book written for a Mediterranean world, matters to them in their context.

That our ancient rage still lingers in the hearts of all men, and that unless we learn to reject it and all its associated bigotry ethnocentrisim and violence, we are doomed to destroy ourselves.

Unluckily just when scientists are opening their minds to a nondeterministic view of cosmic order many philosophers, here and in England, are still playing the old game (as old as ancient stoicism) of trying to reconcile human freedom with strict causal determination of all events.

The individual stories still speak at points with qualities of expression characteristic of their origin and background in ancient folklore, when the stories were primarily motivated by etiology of one sort or another, or by the love, simply, of a good story, or by the desire to entertain and to be entertained.

The ancient concept of a «simple sense» of Scripture to be played off against the «fuller sense» and the allegorical sense of the text is obviously over simple, but the concern which it represented is still appropriate.

A more ancient view, still apparent at many points in the Old Testament, had been that righteousness was rewarded by prosperity and long life in this world, and misfortune was a punishment for sin; but as Israel suffered more and more adversity, and the most faithful individuals and groups were the most oppressed and afflicted, it came to be felt that the humble, the meek, the devout, the poor were the righteous people of God, and the mighty and prosperous were the proud, wicked oppressors.

Cause if yeshua was here today I believe he would follow the laws of Moses and the prophets and still do the holy days of ancient Israel.

The bloodthirsty, vengeful bits of the Psalms were still sung in the ancient monastic cycle inherited from the Romish past.

and they are all ancient myths, invented my primitive men... and here we are in the 21st century without a single scrap of proff of any deity, demon, or heaven or hell, and so many still believe the BS

But while this «way» was in some sense a new departure, it still emanated from the context of Israel's ancient hope in God's promises.

Football has replaced the gladiator games of ancient Rome, and it still keeps everyone just as drunk and distracted as they were over 2000 years ago.

The only genuinely ancient part — not used for any governing purpose — is the astonishing chilly space of Westminster Hall, faintly redolent of the horrible show trial of King Charles I, still an awkward moment in the national family album.

But even allowing for all this, we are still, like our ancient forbears, finite creatures who recognize our fundamental affinity with the earth on which we live.

The perplexity of this leader from the image — ridden West, standing in the presence of a mystery that still evaded him, is a true symbol of Israel's place in the ancient world: a place that might well be equally unique in the modern, save for our debt to Israel herself.

No one except for the Jews accepted the word of G - d Almighty, and thus we are here today, yes still around when mighty once mighty nations like the Romans, Greeks, ancient Egyptians etc. etc. have long ago disappeared.