Sentences with phrase «many ancient people»

If we are to believe the Bible then the Jews conquered the land of Israel from the native inhabitant — which were the ancient people of Palestine.

Any «inspired» bible a work of men, reflecting the morals and knowledge of ancient people.

Let him declare and lay out before me what has happened since I established my ancient people, and what is yet to come — yes, let him foretell what will come.

It just means that they are divinely inspired fables that ancient people could understand.

Kia Optima: This commercial «One Epic Ride» brings together modern and ancient peoples, spies, aliens and mythological gods all vying for... an Optima.

Israelis and the Jewish Tradition: An Ancient People Debating Its Future.

The Jews people are great people, but what the Zionist are doing in the region is a complete hijacking to the good spirit of the ancient people.

Yet the next sentence of the 1985 document quotes John Paul II: «The permanence of Israel (while so many ancient peoples have disappeared without trace) is a historic fact and a sign to be interpreted within God's design....

So, you see, there are many, many other explanations for a really big wooden boat to have been built by ancient people, and some that don't involve any ancient myths whatsoever, let alone one about a god who decided to destroy mankind which happens to be a pretty common theme throughout religion.

I choose to live according to a morality that I have some say in, not one that was originally imposed upon an ancient people, hopelessly removed from my culture.

Ancient peoples were smarter and wiser than most secular people give them credit for.

Well, any more than we know that any of the mythologies of ancient people's isn't an accurate account of their histories, right?

The Chinese built gigantic wooden boats, so it is not really impossible that a really huge wooden boat could not have been built by ancient people without divine guidance.

So a really huge wooden boat built by ancient people using only their own wits isn't impossible.

you really think ancient people in the middle east were describing underwater volcanoes?

It is no shock that the ancient peoples spoke of one creator God.

scot All ancient peoples had a creation myth.

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

Many ancient peoples associated the sky with heaven and the heavenly bodies with deities.

Since the stories of the Bible remain so central to who we are as a culture, even today (and even for those who dismiss it), it seems entirely fitting that we should be equally interested in the ancient people who composed them.

Rather, the evidences of modern people - groups and ancient people - groups show a high percentage of humankind reaching for the supernatural no matter what life they have encountered.

I have one idea of my own that will probably sound crazy, because we have this idea that ancient people were very primitive.

I'm a historian who feels a part of a great community and who wants to make sense of what ancient people said and to appreciate it.

In the understanding of most ancient people and, thus, in the Bible, the sun orbits the Earth.

So the bible is a look into the culture of an ancient people.

Every page of the book prepares the way for its stunning climax, which is a literal appearance of Jesus to the ancient peoples of America.

After he rescues her, she acknowledges that she needed help — and she destroys her notes, realizing that her book on this ancient people, a sure best seller, would bring in the outside world and destroy them.

What helped the spread of Christianity are the facts that, 1) ancient people believed myths to be true and 2) violence & brutality come in handy when enforcing law... or so they thought.

There were some noble reasons to try and organize ancient peoples, but in our current stage in history, religion has become an outdated, hypocritical source of leadership motivated by power and greed like all big business.

justpro86 Meanwhile, every ancient people could look up at the sky and see evidence for their gods,... different gods.

It was a horrible natural disaster and it would not be the only time that ancient people would blame such an event on an angry god.

Those ancient people and that ancient culture and that ancient time are gone, never to return.

The scripture was written to and written for and written by ancient people of an ancient culture living in an ancient time.

The ancient people, like many today, would not be prone to distinguish sharply between morality and religion.

It is impossible for that ancient culture and that ancient time to be recreated and it is impossible for us to be that ancient people or to live as did that ancient people.

For ancient people, evidently, this was a natural way of speaking.

He (or she, or they, or it) may exist; there is certainly evidence that suggests the existence of intelligent design; but until we have better evidence to determine this issue, I suggest we not jump to conclusions and accept the superstitions of ancient peoples regarding this issue.

How did ancient People speak mythology, and what meaning were they able to convey by employing it?

Religion was created by ancient peoples to explain events they didn't understand — eclipses, earthquakes, floods, thunder, lightning, etc..

Any «inspired» word a work of men, reflecting the morals and knowledge of ancient people.

Perhaps all the details (light on the first day, dry land on the second day, a garden with two trees, the snake, etc) were just a way of explaining these relationships to ancient peoples in terms they could understand.

The idea of a divine lawgiver was a commonplace among ancient peoples, and it played some role in almost all religions.

CW - Oh, non-believers know the stories of God's prophesied future «glory», but there have been many, many prophecies handed down throughout the ages from many ancient peoples and not one of them has panned out yet.

Again, this understanding as such, although far from universal among ancient peoples, was not peculiar to Israel.

Some people may think there is a god, but think the Bible was some crap written by some ignorant ancient people.

God is a concept, an idea used by ancient people to explain a world they knew nothing about.

Judgment alone never comprised the whole of what ancient peoples, least of all the Jews, thought government was about.

We have almost no concept of the culture and day - to - day lives of those ancient people, so how could we take what they said and apply it to the 21st century?

If in our time we have seen a great people brought near to the point of extinction, we are also witnessing in Israel what can genuinely be called a resurrection of an ancient people.

I've already gone over exactly how we would prove an ancient person exists.