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Lured by untouched beaches, cheap camping and ancient ruins, travellers soon spread word about this secret paradise, and Tulum grew into a New Age mecca where hippies came to practise yoga, experiment with hallucinogens and purify themselves in Mayan sweat rituals.

As for silly people who spend a year or any amount of time trying to live exactly as the ancients lived, by re-enacting practices found in the Bible, they do a great disservice to God's Word and His people.

There are no precedents by which to discern its meaning, hence the readiness of some Christians to apply the ancient words of the prophets to events in our time.

God said we should not kill (murder is the word from the direct translation from the Ancient Greek and Hebrew) and He did not tell people to stone their servants if they worked on the sabbath (the metaphore was generated by mortal man).

I am using the term «dialectic» in its ancient and etymological sense, and it seems appropriate to describe the process by this word; for instead of an aprioristic, deductive method of procedure, the process was one of answering questions and objections as they arose, not in anticipation, and not as the unfolding, more geometrico, of a system implicit within a body of axioms or first principles which one needed only accept and then all the rest followed logically to the final Q.E.D..

While the therapists and the mumblers were losing faith in words, King and his colleagues were employing to powerful effect the art described by Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian and other ancients.

And what is most amazing to me is that by your own admission (and the millions or billions who believe as you do) you consider the words in your ancient book to carry more weight than your own personal experience in the here and now.

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.»

Not ancient myths written by ancient men that have been butchered throughout history to benefit who ever «knows» the «real» word of god.

Such reasons have also existed against ancient and traditional decisions, even if they were not expressed in so many words and were not felt to be important by conservative people.

Given the fact that he spoke ancient Aramaic, Jesus probably called God by an older form of the word «Allah.»

The bible is an ancient text written by men who CLAIMED to hear god's word... that is not proof.

So we fight back with logic and ask them to prove their beliefs with something substantiative that can be tested without a doubt and not some ancient texts written by MEN (no matter how many times they claim it's «HIS» word).

The framework created by these four elements decisively shapes the meaning of many «big» Christian words, giving them meaning very different from their biblical and ancient Christian ones.

For me, and I hope many others, the last word in Ancient Greece on this topic was given by Epicurus and his talk about a mixture of chance and necessity, and the bits of free «swerve» in the movements of atoms.

Perhaps you've seen the flurry of chatter about an ancient piece of papyrus discovered by Harvard Divinity School historian Karen L. King in which the words «Jesus said to them, «My wife...,»» appear very clearly, before the sentence is broken off.

@ Cedar Tree:????? All sorts of miraculous, superhuman nonsense has been attributed to ancient rulers of other figures of yore whose existence was once accepted by this or that group and who may or may not have been based in part on some historical person or persons and absolutely NO ONE these days takes every word in every text written about these figures to be literal truth.

No minister or preacher, his bare dusty words surrounded by the ancient canticles and psalmody which were then the context of all our worship, would have dared to be emphatic, let alone enthusiastic.

The YHWH of Israel, who was also the God and Father of Jesus Christ, does not belong to the ancient order of supernatural beings who can be neatly described by man's carefully chosen words.

The unusual gestures and the use of spittle (a traditional habit of ancient exorcists) can perhaps be explained by the man's deafness: he is unable to hear the usual word of command and healing.

The word spoken in ancient times by the prophets becomes fully the Word of God because it refers to the incarnate Wword spoken in ancient times by the prophets becomes fully the Word of God because it refers to the incarnate WWord of God because it refers to the incarnate WordWord.

Only by its incarnation in repeatedly reinterpreted ancient symbolism, by which the word is continually reduced to essentials, can the word speak to the heart as well as to the intelligence and the will — in short, to the whole person.»

The elaborate care taken with the words of scripture speaks prophetically to an age that cares little about the wisdom borne by ancient texts — and about craftsmanship generally.

In the Qur» an it is made clear that from most ancient times the word Islam has been used by all divine messengers and their followers as the name for their religion.

Thus, the ancient Jews maintained the dignity of God, in so far as they addressed him as Father at all, by scrupulously avoiding the particular form of the word used by children.

In ancient hebrew the word morning is yom, which is always used to represent the mathematical equation for 24 hours when accompanied by a number, such as «and there was morning and evening, the fourth day».

I take the bible as what it is, an ancient book, written by sheep herders; words on paper and nothing more.

An American poet (F. Bland Tucker) has translated part of the ancient Christian document known as the Epistle to Diognetus, using these words: «He [God] came to win men by good - will, for force is not of God.»

often times (as an ancient teaching method), positives & negatives are laid side by side purposefully so that the meaning is clear... in other words, so people won't take it OUT OF CONTEXT.

A church is technically a term for a gathering of citizens in a town (origins from ancient Greek), but is commonly understood by the Christian adoption of the word as gathering of Christians in a building or structure to facilitate worship and the meeting of its members, specifically in Christianity

Transformed by God's Word combines the ancient Western practice of lectio divina (sacred reading) with the Eastern Orthodox tradition of visio divina (sacred seeing) by pairing reflections on twenty gospel readings with a series of beautiful, never - before published contemporary icons.

In the words of Oxford scholar Larry Siedentop — and in contrast to ancient pagan society — «Christianity changed the ground of human identity» by developing and uniquely stressing the idea of the individual person with an eternal destiny.

Perhaps you've seen the flurry of chatter about an ancient piece of papyrus discovered by Harvard Divinity School historian Karen L. King in which the words «Jesus said to them,...

In view of all that inheres in the first four «words» and in the light of what is there already affirmed both explicitly and by inference; in consideration of ancient Eastern modes of thought and the characteristic psychological identification one always made of his own life with the life of immediate and also more distant progenitors; in recognition of the meaning of Covenant, together with Israel's faith in God's creation and his continuing exercise of the powers and prerogatives of Creator and Sustainer - in acknowledgment of all this it is apparent that the intention of the fifth commandment is to establish and perpetuate not merely the parental but by and through the parental the divine claim upon every life in Israel.

When I saw who had written that, my hopes for an intelligent, or at least receptive, government response to the campaign against gay «marriage» then getting under way died within me: those words were written by Theresa May, the Home Secretary, and they appeared on the very morning she launched a «consultation» on the government's proposals to enforce a change in the legal definition of this ancient institution.

All Year: The Bible (There are many translations available at biblegateway.com)- Anchor Bible Commentary Series - The Women's Bible Commentary, Edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe - Living Judaism: The Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice by Wayne D. Dosick - Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal / Deuterocanonical books, and the New Testament, Edited by Carol Meyers, Toni Cravien, and Ross Shepard Kraemer - Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem - Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy, Edited by Ronald W. Pierce, Rebecca Merrill Groothuis and Gordon D. Fee - Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life by Lynn Cohick - God's Word to Women by Katharine C. Bushnell - Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis - «On The Dignity and Vocation of Women» by Pope John Paul II - The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

@Ryan, Actually, from the research I've done, most of the new testament wasn't written down until at LEAST 60 years after the death of Jesus, and at that there were many versions floating around the ancient world both in writing and by word of mouth.

This method has a long history dating back to the ancient Romans, but wasn't perfected until several hundred years ago by the French, who are responsible for naming the system espalier (a derivation of the French word épaule, meaning shoulder).

«Inspired by the ancient traditions of Persia, Rooted in the modern expressions of California,» is our motto and you will find these words on the label of our wines.

The Mayan word for «strength,» Chia was prized by Ancient Maya warriors for the sustainable energy it provides.

YOU may think humanity's first words are lost in the noise of ancient history, but an unlikely experiment using plastic tubes and puffs of air is helping to recreate the first sounds uttered by our distant ancestors.

Miller and his students, Ben Seitz and Cody Polack, replicated a previous experiment by having research subjects rate the relevance of words (e.g. rock, apple, ball, stick) in regards to a survival scenario on the ancient grasslands of Africa, and then tested them to see which words they could recall.

Evolutionary biologists Jean - Michel Claverie and Chantal Abergel, the husband - and - wife team at Aix - Marseille University in France who led the work, named it Pithovirus sibericum, inspired by the Greek word «pithos» for the large container used by the ancient Greeks to store wine and food.

The «wandering» lights were first called «πλανήτης» (planētēs) by the Ancient Greeks, a Greek term meaning «wanderer,» and it is from this that the word «planet» was derived.

This is an extra pleasant change because the cutscenes and dialogue are quite good, once you get over everyone saying «By Sekhmet» and other ancient exclamations and get down to learning new swear words from the (excellent, full - featured) subtitles.

Ancient mystics believed that one could have the magical power to create reality simply by uttering certain words.

Colln on the western bank owed its name to the ancient western German Christian city founded by the Romans, Cologne (Köln in German); on the eastern side, the settlement of Berlin was probably not named after the noble bear as sentimental natives still insist — but more prosaically after the old West Slavic word for marsh, brl.

Named after the ancient Sanskrit word for love, guests will be captured by the villa «s spell from the moment they enter its doors Perhaps it «s the large wise Buddha gazing across the gorgeous green - stone swimming pool, or the sound of crashing waves in the distance, or the exotic tropical gardens, but one thing is for sure: you ca n`t help but feel the warm and positive energy that embraces this vil...

''... It is not that there are just layers and layers of pigments, some dispersed by the flow of air in Bhavsar's Greene Street loft studio - not just 80 layers as Kwint said, but as many as 200 - but there are meanings too deep for ordinary cognition, meanings too ancient and new, bizarre and supremely rational, for us even to try and put into words...»