Sentences with phrase «the ancient book»

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?

John Oh, I can imagine a better being than Christian God: one that wouldn't rely on a flawed ancient book riddled with scientific inaccuracies and contradictions to «reveal» himself.

They could have found someone with more credentials, but when your oppoent is some whacko who just believes everything in ancient book... I think a 5 year old could win that debate

The only thing keeping your from killing your family is some ancient book?

All of these are written in the ancient book of the Word of God.

To spout out tired old meaningless phrases from an ancient book written by ignorant goatherds?

What you call peering into the mind of god thru this ancient books is simply peering into the minds of primitive humans that lived in darkness, both literally and mentally.

To not only claim to know there is a God but to claim you know his name and how he wants all his slave humans to behave is beyond hubris, it is self deification, claiming to know the mind of God, regardless of whether you rely on some ancient book for that knowledge or not.

but think an ancient book of fiction qualifies as evidence?

That way I can be sure and do all the holy things exactly the way that ancient book says I should.

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.

Empathy and the needs of society are better arbiters of morality than an ancient book where half of the rules exist to simply enforce the following of a specific supernatural claim.

Views based on an ancient book of fiction that completely conflict with the evidence we have available are crazy.

Just because it's in an ancient book, is no reason a modern human should pay any attention to it, TP.

And you lorraine are a perfect example of a religious zealot — bound by blind faith into believing you are right and that all others will persh according to some inane ramblings in an ancient book.

Even more amazing is that you «know» this based on an ancient book that was cobbled together thousands of years ago and stole stories from pagan mythology.

If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.

what is best for the group» is what is written in the law, not YOUR opinion of what is written in an ancient book.

But don't think for a moment the truth will come from an ancient book or from the mouths of those who claim to know the «true meaning» of that book.

If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and enti.tle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.»

No one has DISproven an ancient book!?

Can't accept reality of the naturally existing gay people And want to control and condemn them based on your interpretation of your ancient book.

They are generally based on ancient books full of known fallacies that followers still believe today.

An ancient book by unknown authors, which makes wild extraordinary claims such as snakes talking, a man living in a giant fish for days, the dead rising, and so on.

They are not generally based on ancient books full of known fallacies that followers still believe today.

Well, Christianity is based on an ancient book full of known fallacies.

And what is most amazing to me is that by your own admission (and the millions or billions who believe as you do) you consider the words in your ancient book to carry more weight than your own personal experience in the here and now.

Ancient book have no part in the thought of modern humans.

Specifically the correct interpretation of a translation of a translation of a translation of an ancient book of largely borrowed myths written for a specific geographic culture.

There is much more to life than an ancient book that seeks to ensnare the mind.

The answer presented itself much later when I was glancing through the ancient Book of Jasher (mentioned in Joshua 10:13 and 2 Sam 1:18).

There are certain general principles which apply to all translations of ancient books into modern languages.

And if your bias to an entire group of people based solely on what an ancient book tells you, then you're a bigot.

Religious myths have ancient books that are quoted as if they were unquestionable fact merely based on their existence.

Chad Why do you find the Bible more credible than other ancient books?

I am still in my rookie season when it comes to preaching, but I have quickly learned that what keeps a crowd's attention is a pastor who can explain how the Bible, an ancient book written for a Mediterranean world, matters to them in their context.

@Chad «I believe credible ancient books, books that have withstood withering scrutiny for 2000 years and have yet to be demonstrated false in any way..

You have the freedom to live your life by this ancient book, and I have the freedom not to.

Everyone has beliefs, but not everyone bases their beliefs on imaginary beings or ancient books of mythology.

According to the ancient Book of Jasher which is mentioned in Joshua 10:13 and 2 Sam 1:18, Chapter 9, Abram went to Noah and Shem at the age of ten, where he remained for 39 years and was taught the ways of the Lord.

With God being real, the Bible is just another ancient book.

We do good because that is the right thing to do, not because some ancient book tells us what is right and wrong — especially when those books are so often so wrong in what they teach.

The ones who want to discriminate based upon an ancient book of highly questionable morals are the reasonable, loving ones.

a place where people write laws based on ancient books from the Bronze Age backed up by zero evidence.

I would like the story better if she gave the credit of her success to her own intelligence and hard work rather than a fictional character in an ancient book.

The momentousness of the Christ - event could never have been grasped except in terms of the highly charged atmosphere of expectation that received its written expression in the ancient books of the Israelites.

Just because some ancient book makes you feel guilty about your life?

well, if you knew the law, and knew what that **** g ancient book of BS says about «obeying the law», you would actually be supporting my position....

They give up their old friends, interests, desires, hobbies, and tastes, and instead hang out just with other Christians while studying an ancient book and speaking an arcane language that nobody else understands.

Book of Mormon people did use ancient symbolic language when describing religiosity, (one of many mountains of evidences that it is an ancient book.)