Sentences with phrase «in older writings»

In older writings they focused solely on the role that this couples time played in creating a happy marriage.

In the oldest writings and in the rock inscriptions of early man, it signifies the idea of enclosure, of home, of settlement.

Not exact matches

it is only useful as a history of the hebrews, (old testament) when taken in context with the writings of the other early civilizations in the middle east some of which have only recently been deciphered.

To avoid confusion in this matter, we begin this study by stating that we shall only be referring to post Old Testament era writings herein, and will not concern ourselves with any New Testament writings.

If you chose to live your life by the writings of the Old Testament, none of us will stop you (well, unless you start with that stoning bit, that might land you in prison).

This recognition did not in early times carry with it any objection to free and candid criticism of the writings of the Old and New Testaments.

An extreme example is to be found in the exploitation of the more obscure «apocalyptic» writings» such as the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament and the book of Revelation in the New, which became the licensed playground of every crank.

By the time the writings of the Old Testament were being put into final form, they had assumed a place of preeminence in the life of the Hebrew nation.

He goes on to say that, â $ it is a tragedy in a time when there is so much to know that people are actively led astray by midlevel Bronze Age myths and writings over 2000 years old and what really matters is the truthâ $.

In particular, the Old Testament, the inter-Testamental writings, and the New Testament, represent areas of well defined and highly differentiated expertness.

Among his writings are the following: Christian Apologetics in a World Community (InterVarsity Press 1983); Let the Earth Rejoice: A Biblical Theology of Holistic Mission (Crossway 1983); Christian Art in Asia, (Rodop Amsterdam 1979, distributed by Humanities Press); Themes in Old Testament Theology, (InterVarsity Press 1979); Daniel in the Television Den: A Christian Approach to American Culture (Western Baptist Press 1975; and Rouault: A Vision of Suffering and Salvation (Eerdmans 1971).

In those writings most Christians refer to as the Old Testament, we find a God who bears a striking resemblance to the gods of the nations that surrounded ancient Israel.

What I do NOT have faith in is that some writings, written by old men 2000 + years ago, are the words of god.

Go check out some speeches or writings of New Age (in reality, old age / Luciferian) Barbara Marx Hubbard -LRB-»84 Dem VP nom) and know she was simply regurgitating something that predated her.

Please don't listen to these people on here they have so many different views and ideas of their own but don't listen to them they have closed their heart to God and are doing Satans work of misleading people away from the Almighty they look for men who like to have their ears tickled so don't take mine our anyone else's word for it look it up for your self history attests to the bible as true and The writings of Moses is far older than anything they have ever found thats right Moses wrote the first parts in the bible 3,500 years ago The scriptures weren't inspired by Pagan stories Pagan stories was inspired by actual events just like those in the bible because if you notice that a lot of the stories found in the bible have a lot to do about people worshipping false Gods.

The prophets laid the foundation as we find it in the writings of the Old Testament.

Since early in the Church's history the Old and New Testament have been recognized as its «Canon», as authoritative over all other writings, beliefs and opinions.

Bishop Paulose shows that the «young» and the «old» Marx are essentially one and the same and there is a continuity of thought in Marx's writings.

Paulose holds the view that, despite a few minor variations, the «young» and the «old» Marx are essentially one and the same, and that there is a continuity of thought in Marx's writings.

Those traditions have been written down in the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles (which are older than most gospels), and other writings that, while did not make it to the Canon (Bible), serve as important historical references.

The key word is «vanity,» occurring more frequently in this one writing than in all other Old Testament writings combined.

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To many of the jewish faith, the Christians hijacked part of their religious writings and applied their own interpretations, often own «translations» which in parts are different from older texts (that Christianity did not control).

period; and from the fact that of all the canonical Old Testament writings, only Esther yields no trace among the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls (which date from the second century B.C. and later) we may be justified in taking Esther as the latest canonical book.

Without specific use of the term «Son of man,» an apocalyptic coming of the day of the Lord is indicated elsewhere in the Old Testament as well as in the intertestamental writings.

are known to contain all the Old Testament writings except one book.The writings found at Qumran are amazingly accurate to the Old Testament we have today.Where are the changes you speak of?The scribes of ancient Israel were under strict rules and supervision in the completion of their tasks; are you suggesting incompetence in their duty?If so please show it.

There are 3 major religions that have evolved from that Middle Eastern «scripture»... each with subsets (thousands of them in the case of Christianity), who don't agree with each other because of how they translate and interpret those old writings and ideas... each saying that they are the «true» one.

We now know not only that none of the Old Testament writings is prophetic witness to Christ in the sense in which the early church assumed them to be, but also that none of the writings of the New Testament is apostolic witness to Christ as the early church itself understood apostolicity.

Paul writings in Romans and the Old TEstament book of Leviticus clearly demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the extremes of human «s@xuality».

So the Old Testament is not just «background» material for the earnest bible student, in the way that the Dead Sea Scrolls or the writings of the first century Jew Josephus are.

This hermeneutic situation is as primitive as the two others because the Gospel is presented from the time of the second generation as a writing, as a new letter, a new Scripture, added to the old in the form of a collection of writings which will one day be gathered up and enclosed in a canon, the «Canon of Scriptures.»

Niebuhr would, of course, understand that nothing he wrote had eternal value; his cautions that we should be sparing in handing out bouquets are found on virtually every page of his writings, along with his affirmation of such old - fashioned doctrines as original sin and the transcendence of God.

It is increasingly clear that Deuteronomy and the Priestly writings contain at least some material much older than is indicated by the usual dating of the documents.9 Increasingly, too, it would appear that scholars are disposed to accept the substantial reliability of the persistent tradition which sees Moses as a lawgiver.10 That law was an early and significant aspect of Israelite culture is further attested not only by ancient Near Eastern parallels but even more strikingly in the life, the work and the character of the first three great names in Israel's national history: Moses, Samuel and Elijah.

In the Hebrew canon of prophecy (the Latter Prophets) there are four «books» comprising fifteen names — Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and the twelve «minor» prophets (the last twelve writings of our Old Testament, Hosea to Malachi) These fifteen writings vary in length, were written over a span of centuries from the eighth probably to the third B.C., are addressed to radically different historical situations, and certainly in their present form represent far more than fifteen writerIn the Hebrew canon of prophecy (the Latter Prophets) there are four «books» comprising fifteen names — Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and the twelve «minor» prophets (the last twelve writings of our Old Testament, Hosea to Malachi) These fifteen writings vary in length, were written over a span of centuries from the eighth probably to the third B.C., are addressed to radically different historical situations, and certainly in their present form represent far more than fifteen writerin length, were written over a span of centuries from the eighth probably to the third B.C., are addressed to radically different historical situations, and certainly in their present form represent far more than fifteen writerin their present form represent far more than fifteen writers.

(II Samuel 12:23) When to such influences from ancient racial tradition and from the controlling patterns of contemporary thought was added the fact that prophetic orthodoxy in Israel had held out no hope of a future life for the individual, it is not strange that even in the Old Testament's later writings we have explicit and convinced denials of such hope.

However one looks at Scripture, as the «word of God» or just old writings, understanding the historical and cultural context in which the writer's lived and wrote can give us lots of insight.

For the same reason, each looks back to the basic documents of Christian belief, the writings of the Old and New Testaments and the credal formulations of the early Church, from his own point of view and in a perspective conditioned by his personal belief.

Papias (christian bishop of about 100 - 140 AD) wrote that matthew gathered the writings which were in Hebrew and translated them into greek, yet the oldest manuscript in greek of that gospel shows none of the telltale signs of translation.

We find it in the prophetic tradition in the Old Testament, in the teaching of Jesus and elsewhere in the New Testament and in the writings of the church fathers.

The love of God, though it appears not infrequently in the Old Testament and in the rabbinical writings, there carries with it a connotation of God's love for the people Israel which was too small for Jesus.

It is taken for granted everywhere in Paul, whose letters are the oldest Christian writings we possess; and Paul implies that it was his oral teaching and preaching as well — in his reproach of the Galatians, for example, «before whose very eyes Jesus had been crucified» in his preaching, (Gal.

Studies of early Christian baptisms, as reflected in Pauline letters and writings of the church fathers, indicate that converts to the faith wore a garment symbolic of the old life, and when they arose from baptism their new life was symbolized by the donning of a white garment.

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Thus those who postulate the split between the young» and old» Marx seem to be confronted with two distinct Marxisms — the most striking difference being that of the disappearance of the «self - alienated man» in the later writings of Marx.

Two influences especially confirmed the early Christians in their error, their study of the Old Testament and the apocalyptic writings, and the rise of Christian prophecy.

The earliest known writings for the Old Testament are taken from the «Septuagint» written in Konic Greek dated from the 2nd century BCE, some 200 + years before the arrival of the Nazarene.

These underground vegetables were grown in Chinese gardens as far back as 5,000 years ago, and are referenced in some of the oldest Vedic writings in India.

These old writings also have some crazy things in them, too, that an intelligent, thinking person needs to take with a grain of salt.

Jarret Brachman, a counterterrorism expert and government consultant who analyzed Khan's writings, described Khan as a «partner in crime» to Aulaqi who was clearly «soaking in as much knowledge as possible» from the older man.

But according to radiocarbon dating of burnt wood bits found in the plaster and from surrounding strata, it is by far the oldest known Mayan writing — dating from between 300 and 200 B.C., which is roughly concurrent with the earliest writings of other Mesoamerican cultures.