Sentences with phrase «great planet earth»

If I had to label myself, I would say I am a lukewarmer - but having grown up in the 1970's with the «Late Great Planet earth» claptrap, along with Howard Ruff, the 1970's ice age, the end of oil (1970's vintage), I have little to no toerance for apocalyptic claims based on evidence that is not substantially different from noise.

They Came before Columbus belongs to a genre of wacky Cold War - era pseudoscience that includes Holy Blood, Holy Grail; In Search of Noah's Ark; Worlds in Collision; and The Late, Great Planet Earth, to name a few exemplars.

Ever since Hal Lindsay's Late Great Planet Earth took the evangelical book world by storm in the 70s, we've been uniquely obsessed with (and disturbingly excited by) the impending apocalypse.

This passage is steeped in the rot - from - within despair of the 1970s, and it is not a coincidence that King did his best work in the decade of Jonestown and The Exorcist, the Ayatollah Khomeini and The Late Great Planet Earth, the decade that stripped away the confident science - and - progress ethos of the 1950s and early 1960s.

It is at least intriguing that theologians and pastors who would not be caught dead referring to The Late, Great Planet Earth seem impelled to believe that the more (Dramatically we portray the gaping jaws of hell environmentally the more likely a return to the righteousness of yesterday.

One of the best - selling religious books of all time is a rather shoddy piece of rehashed millennialism called The late, Great Planet Earth.

In the 1970s the evangelical preacher Hal Lindsey wrote The Late Great Planet Earth, which sold 25 million copies around the world.

After all, the best «selling nonfiction book of the past thirty years is Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth (1970), and the Left Behind books are the all «time best «selling works of Christian fiction.

Hal Lindsey in The Late Great Planet Earth even calls in data from an oil company to support the return of Jesus:

Bible teacher Hal Lindsey's end - times book The Late Great Planet Earth and David Wilkerson's story The Cross and the Switchblade were read voraciously and widely.

If I have been deprived of a heartfelt expectation of the Lord's return, I blame Hal Lindsey and Tim LaHaye, with their blockbusters The Late Great Planet Earth and the Left Behind series.

Hal Lindsey with C. C. Carlson, The Late Great Planet Earth (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1970).

According to Hal Lindsey, writer of The Late Great Planet Earth, with Mr. Reagan's approval he gave a talk to Pentagon strategists on nuclear war with the Soviet Union (ibid.).

A dispensationalist precursor to the «Left Behind» series was Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth — a record - breaking best seller in the 1970s.

TV and radio preachers trumpet the details of prophecy belief over hundreds of stations and cable networks Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth sold 9 million copies within eight years of its publication in 1970.

I have been hearing this drivel since Hal Lindsay wrote The Late, Great Planet Earth in the early 1970s.

The Left Behind series is The Late Great Planet Earth on steroids.

which enjoys enormous influence, thanks to popularizations like Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth (1970) and the bestselling Left Behind novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.

Hal Lindsay, author of The Late Great Planet Earth, feeling sure he had got it right at last, announced the beginning of the end - times with the words: «The Battle of America has begun.»

It was fully expounded in Hal Lindsay's book The Late Great Planet Earth, which was read by an estimated 18 million people.

Grace Halsell devoted a whole chapter to the beliefs of Ronald Reagan, who had not only been impressed by reading The Late Great Planet Earth, but also frequently mused on the issue himself.

Sorry, Steve... we were saying the same thing back in the»70s... and»80s... and»90s... and we were especially certain of our Lord's soon return in the»70s thanks to our bold and accurate brother in the Lord, Hal Lindsey and his master text (second only to the New testament) «the Late Great Planet Earth»!

These theological visions come from many sources, including: apocalyptic books of the Bible from Daniel to Revelation; a nineteenth - century viewpoint on the end of times known as dispensational premillennialism; and images of the so - called «rapture» popularized in novels such as Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth (1970) and the more recent Left Behind series.

Not exact matches

Studying storms such as this and comparing them to similar events on other planets (think Jupiter's Great Red Spot) help scientists better understand weather patterns throughout the solar system, even here on Earth.

That's great news for Kelly, NASA, and the future of manned space flight, but it's also interesting for the rest of us stuck here on earth amid the usual small hassles and daily annoyances of a planet - bound existence.

The Great Red Spot of Jupiter is about twice the size of Earth and has tumbled in the planet's atmosphere for at least 350 years.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is about twice as wide as Earth and has tumbled in the planet's atmosphere for at least 350 years.

«Let us work together in order to make our planet great again and create new jobs and new opportunities while safeguarding our Earth,» Macron said, apparently in a play on Trump's 2016 campaign slogan, «Make America Great Again&rgreat again and create new jobs and new opportunities while safeguarding our Earth,» Macron said, apparently in a play on Trump's 2016 campaign slogan, «Make America Great Again&rGreat Again»

Justin Trudeau has always said Canada can do both: that by showing greater concern for Earth's future, we can also help fuel the planet's SUVs.

Fortunately, planet earth is also home to a lot of intelligent, creative, innovative people with the ability to solve the greatest challenges of our time.

Likewise, with the tapering genie now out of the bottle, we are watching a rescission of global capital that originally spread out across planet Earth as QE went to ever greater heights since 2009.

Of course because there are billions and billions of star systems, there is GREAT FAITH that there MUST be planets like earth with intelligent beings.

The human race has evolved to be the greatest life form that has ever existed on planet Earth and it did it with a great faith in God and the teachings of the bible.

We are a Goldie Loc's Planet 2 - we got the right of land to water ratio 3 - the moon is at the right size and orbit to prevent the earth from wobbling 4 - the gas giants in our solar system do a great job at cleaning up roaming ice and rock that is flying around our solar system 5 - right distance from the galactic core.

We can not be sure that The Flood had no relationship to all flesh around that area having «corrupted its way»... The very protection of mankind from natural disasters that were inevitable from the contingent, limited perfection of the planet Earth as a habitat, might well have been mediated to human communities by great prophetic souls, even as Christ prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem as a consequence of his rejection, and because «in the day of your visitation, you did not know the things that were to your peace».

They are functionally identical with biblical visions of joy and hope — the eschatological sense that language and faith may indeed convert and convict and lead men and women to that great imaginative vision of the New Testament: a new heaven and a new earth in place of a crowded and tired planet.

Calculations indicate that in several ways it is quite an Earth - like planet: its radius is 1.2 to 2.5 times that of Earth; its mass is 3.1 to 4.3 times greater; and, crucially, its orbit lies within its star's «Goldilocks zone», which means its surface temperature is neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water - and therefore potentially life - to exist on its surface.

How could less than 1 % of the American Muslim population takes the greatest nation on planet Earth hostage so easily?!

Plants came out upon the land some six hundred million years ago, after the planet earth had shaped itself through a great series of transformations forming the continents, the mountains, the valleys, the rivers and streams.

As for Christ, we who call ourselves Christians regard him as the uniquely great teacher and very special manifestation of God in our midst: one who shared our existence on planet earth, bore our sins, gave his life for us, and miraculously reappeared to his disciples and others after death — in what form, we do not know.

Planet X or Nibiru can not & will not destroy the whole Earth because Jesus will return on the Great Day of The Lord to rule and reign on Earth for 1000 years.

When GQ's Michal Hainey asked Rubio, in an interview released Monday, «How old do you think the Earth is,» the rising Republican star described the debate about the planet's age as «one of the great mysteries.»

This is more like saying «We are pretty sure the moon orbits the earth, but our moon might also orbit other planets when we can't see it, I mean, it's really one of the great mysteries...»

The Catholic Church, the greatest money - making machine in the history of planet Earth, is simply trying to put more butts in the pews for when the basket is passed around.

Within decades we will know whether man is going to be a physical success around earth, able to function in ever greater patterns of local universe, or whether he is going to frustrate his own success with his negatively conditioned reflexes of yesterday and will bring about his own extinction around the planet earth.

The human polytheists, in practice, have a great deal in common with the Abrahamic monotheists of Planet Earth: They're a people of the book, divided between fundamentalists who take the sacred scrolls literally and more latitudinarian believers who don't, and divided, as well, on all the culture - war questions — notably abortion — that divide our own semi-Christian West.

Now for a cookie monster like me these are the greatest cookies on planet earth due to the nutrition, easy preparation and...

«The historical mission of our times is to reinvent the human — at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life - systems, in a time - developmental context, by means of story and shared dream experience... The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the Earth to a period when humans would be present to the planet in a mutually beneficial manner.»

But is there an easier scapegoat than a bald, begoggled, heavy - legged guy who turns 42 on April 16, no matter that he's the greatest scorer on Planet Earth?

There are so many things that we can just tweak and still end up with a great result for ourselves and for planet earth.