Sentences with phrase «early man worshipped»

Early man worshipped the Sun.

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If the early church could hold together communities made up of Jews and Greeks, slaves and free, men and women, circumcised and uncircumcised, tax collectors and zealots, prostitutes and Pharisees, kosher believers and non-kosher believers, those who ate food sacrificed to idols and those who refused, I guess this evolution - accepting, hell - questioning, liberal - leaning feminist can worship Jesus alongside a Tea Party complementarian who thinks the earth is 6,000 years old and that Ghandi and Anne Frank are in hell.

Why early man turned away from sun - worship?

Religion, as an idea has been with us before recorded history from early man's worshiping of nature to Charlemagne's murder of the innocent in the name of Christianity, to jets crashing into towers in the name of Islam.

As early as the second century, Christians gathered for worship at the tombs of the martyrs, celebrating the power of God's grace in the lives of these faithful men and women.

Men beset by anxieties are likely to seek mental peace through worship since they discovered in earlier experience that it was a by - product of a devotion that had no ulterior purpose but was directed to the eternal glory.

It was along a line of thought such as this (though I realize that I am grossly over-simplifying a complex and subtle process of reflection on the part of the Christian community) that the dominant problem for theology in the early centuries came to be how to assert that Jesus is our Lord, and hence, since Lordship implies worship and it is idolatry to worship man, how to assert his deity.

= > With the exception of a very small minority these signs have been within mans awareness since the earliest recorded history and often results in an automatic reflex of worship.

That is why even thousands of years ago early man made provision for the dead and worshiped something wonderful, great and powerful.