Sentences with phrase «as ancient gods»

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As noted in the History website this tradition dates back 4,000 years to the ancient Babylonians where they made a New Year's commitment to the gods to pay back their debts.

Sotheby's plans to auction the «Apollo and Artemis Diamonds» — a fancy vivid blue stone, and a fancy intense pink stone, each named after an Ancient Greek god — separately as individual lots, at its sale in Geneva on May 16.

«That was an insane number driven by crazy credit and should be viewed the same as gods of ancient Greece and other fables or myths.»

Our language makes understanding God as the ancient Hebrews and early Christians did almost impossible.

WHY do they believe that their God is so concerned about whether or not they listen to musical instruments in church on Sunday, get dunked or sprinkled in ceremonial water, speak in a tongue as some kind of sign... to whom ever, read from the correct translation of some long lost ancient books, etc, etc?

Modern science is the cornerstone of your belief system, as ancient writings that I consider to be God given, holy inspired and very relevant to modern times (as well as every society that ever was and will be) is the cornerstone of my belief system, because everything about this book has been accurate in every way, unlike modern science.

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

``... as ancient writings that I consider to be God given, holy inspired and very relevant to modern times (as well as every society that ever was and will be) is the cornerstone of my belief system, because everything about this book has been accurate in every way, unlike modern science.»

One goes to what you know (gnosticism means «to know» — or as it was used in ancient times, «to have knowledge of god») and one goes to what you believe (theist means to «believe in god» or «a god»).

It will be looked on by future generations as we now look on the ancient Greeks and Romans who believed in their pantheon of gods, or the Druids, Aztecs or Maya.

Christianity is every bit as ridiculous as the ancient Egyptian god Ra pulling the sun across the sky in his golden chariot, and perhaps finally enough people are waking up to that simple truth.

Maybe Jesus and Muhammad existed as people in ancient cultures but not in any way as divine beings or messengers or sons of someone's God.

Two thousand years later, the vast majority of the world's population has disregarded the belief that dragons roam the sea, Zeus, Poseidon, and most other ancient gods (as these people thousands of years ago believed), yet the world inexplicably still clings to the thousands - year - old myths of God and Jesus.

Tryggve N. D. Mettinger in The Riddle of the Resurrection: «Dying and Rising Gods» in the Ancient Near East wrote: «There is, as far as I am aware, no prima facie evidence that the death and resurrection of Jesus is a mythological construct, drawing on the myths and rites of the dying and rising gods of the surrounding world.&raGods» in the Ancient Near East wrote: «There is, as far as I am aware, no prima facie evidence that the death and resurrection of Jesus is a mythological construct, drawing on the myths and rites of the dying and rising gods of the surrounding world.&ragods of the surrounding world.»

@fimilleur from time to time mankind experiences the presence of God, there have been and continue to be events that testify to the presence of Him.The multiple gods you continually point to have an unique difference from the God who first revealed His presence to ancient men i.e. the Hebrews.The particular gods you mention roman etc. are all man made and in many instances men themselves i.e. hercules, but even the ancient greeks realized the limitations of their understanding and included an «unknown» God in their worship structure.many cultures did likewise, having a glimpse of God but not the fullness of understanding that was given to the Jews.Whether or not «we» believe, does not alter the fact that God exists as an unique being, whether or not «we» acknowledge Him «we» will stand before Him.You do not choose to understand, but we are actually standing in His presence right now as He is much bigger than the doctrines and knowledge man ascribes to Him those things you find so questionable are the misconceptions and misrepresentations of God made by men throughout history.

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 peoplAs 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 peoplas the ancients lived, by re-enacting practices found in the Bible, they do a great disservice to God's Word and His people.

And, because of their ancient worldview, they would add, «And we not only believe God wants you to as well, but that he's actually behind this book!

Those who take «the bible» as the literal word of god would do well to study the factual history of the compilations of ancient stories of the OT and NT that they cherish.

After his death, he was resurrected as a god, becoming the god of medicine and healing in ancient Greek religion.

After watching the History Channel on Ancient Aliens, I feel as though my faith, not in God or a superior being, but religion in itself, is waning.

This is a distorted translation... lots of good information comes from ancient books... it's just that the bible is fictional and any useful information can be found anywhere else since the bible plagiarized any real useful information that's in it... like do unto others as you wish them to do to you... is just ancient common sense and has nothing to do with what any fantasy gods might have said... the bible is a waste of time for the stupids.

Religious folks tend to think humans have some kind of divine character given to them by God whereas we tend consider ourselves as members of the ancient primate family of life.

There is the simple recognition that Zeus, considered god of the sky and ruler of the Olympian gods in ancient Greece and corresponding to the Roman god Jupiter, is a mythological god, the same as Hermes.

It was the first public evidence of the project that had gradually taken shape in my mind during the preceding years: to work out on the level of systematic theology the ancient Israelitic view of reality as a history of God's interaction with his creation, as I had internalized it from the exegesis of my teacher Gerhard von Rad, after I had discovered how to extend it to the New Testament by way of Jewish eschatology and its developments in Jesus» message and history.

Sameth opines that in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, «well - expressed gender fluidity was the mark of a civilized person,» and «the gods were thought of as gender - fluid.»

[92] In ancient Rome, epilepsy was known as the Morbus Comitialis («disease of the assembly hall») and was seen as a curse from the gods.

Secondly as stated further up the thread, the biblical account of creation was to show the authority of God to an ancient people.

Matter of fact, the Bible names God as the «ancient of days» He has no beginning or end for by him and through him all things exist.

Not born into it like many of us «athiests» who no longer recognize the ancient Hebrew god, thought up by goat herders as legit?

Part of my own story is that I went for a big wander outside of my my mother Church, encountering different and new and ancient ways of experiencing and knowing and being changed by our big and generous God as if I were encountering occasional cups of water while in the desert, drinking each one down as if they were sustaining me for the next leg of the journey.

These ancient writers saw God as having a heart.»

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

He's tall, taller than you think, and his muscles are shaped in such a fashion as to make ancient statues of Greek gods look as...

Indeed most ancient jews saw the devil not as an incarnation of evil but as god's prosecutor.

Useful for understanding God's nature, these no longer apply as we are not ancient Israel.

In light of the above, we need to get past this tendency to identify the West with ancient Israel as the people of God.

as in the denouement of some ancient tragedy the forces at work were now furthered, now hindered, until God's ends were achieved.

For it is apparent to us, as it was not to the ancients with their ignorance of genetics, that physical generation is involved in what it means to be «man»; and Jesus is not a demi - god but the Son of God truly made mgod but the Son of God truly made mGod truly made man.

With the ancient altars no longer standing, with the sacrificial cultus interpreted as a mere foreshadowing of the access to God that Christians spiritually enjoyed, with the growing rituals of the new churches still plastic and unformed, personal prayer became the typical method of divine fellowship.

Together with the opening line of the Letter to the Hebrews («In ancient times God spoke to man through prophets and in varied ways, but now he speaks through Christ, His Son...»), as well as many other biblical texts, this passage reveals to us a startling truth.

From Kat W.: I've known of pagans who run the gamut from secular agnostics who treat their spirituality as completely metaphorical, to those who are pagan re-constructionists attempting to resurrect ancient tribal religions and espouse a literal belief in their chosen pantheon of gods.

Whereas they pointed to the pantheon of gods in their unseen heavenly world, the Bible pointed to one who was in no way to be identified with the gods of ancient man, but who was known to them in the sphere of human history as the deepest reality confronting them there.

It is not stated that the wicked will endure eternal suffering, so I believe that they will be simply destroyed, even as the ancient Israelites always said God would do.

If they are true believers and not riding some particular hobby horse they must surely say that everything has remained the same that is really necessary for life as well as for death: the crucified and risen Christ, his grace, baptism, the true body and blood of the Lord in the Eucharist, the forgiveness of sins, the expectation of eternal life, the ancient dogma binding on all, the one commandment of the love of God and our neighbour.

Gods were worshiped in ancient times to explain such things as comets, starts, lightning, thunder, volcano's etc..

God was represented by one of the ancient rabbis as saying, «When they read before me the laws about sacrifices, I will impute it to them as if they offered the sacrifices before me, and will have mercy upon them for all their misdeeds.»

0 wonder of wonders that none can unfold The Ancient of days as an hour or two old, The Maker of all things is made of the earth, Man as worshipped by Angels, and God comes to birth.18

See the answer above — I see the Genesis narratives as God graciously reaching down to an ancient culture in order to communicate to them that he is their creator, that they are alienated from him, and that he desires that they be restored to fellowship through his offer of covenant with him (ultimately pointing to the need for God to step into history himself as the One who can keep the covenant on our behalf).