Sentences with phrase «about ancient gods»

Steve's not so convinced of that stuff about ancient gods and eternal Amazons but he has no doubt as to her abilities as a warrior or her commitment to justice and he knows a valuable ally when he meets one.

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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?

Modern science is the cornerstone of your belief system, as ancient writings that I consider to be God given, holy inspired and very relevant to modern times (as well as every society that ever was and will be) is the cornerstone of my belief system, because everything about this book has been accurate in every way, unlike modern science.

``... as ancient writings that I consider to be God given, holy inspired and very relevant to modern times (as well as every society that ever was and will be) is the cornerstone of my belief system, because everything about this book has been accurate in every way, unlike modern science.»

A factitious, concretized God is certainly not the notion the ancients maintained about God.

If I worked at NASA and insisted that the expedition to Saturn should reveal evidence of the ancient Greek or Roman gods, and kept insisting that the data supported that mythology, I'd expect to be told (first) to stop preaching about it at work, and then get fired if I kept doing it.

Yeah, she should stop following ancient fairy tales about gods that don't exist and just live in the real world.

St. Malachy about 1000 years, ancient Mayan over 5000 years, Nostradamus 700 years, Sister Lucia about 100 years, and many others gave us a prediction of the date that God will come in his extremely anger to clean up the bad souls.

Satan is the ORIGINAL anti Jesus, with a DIECT link to God himself (Some consider him to be a manifestation of those who resisted the Jews in ancient times) Who came about well before Christ.

It's not about knowing the specific nature of God, rather, the Bible is a book of ancient history and metaphors that allows you to peer into the mind of God.

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.

The claim was a simple thing to do in ancient times because scientifically ignorant people still did not know why the sun rose and set and why the seasons changed and why lightning and why thunder and why earthquakes and why disease and why just about anything... so people all thought that a god or gods controlled it all.

I can see what you are saying about ancient men making up a God to explain creation.

However, in what is probably the oldest book of the Bible, Job, living in an ancient culture that knew nothing about space or planets, asserted that God hung the earth on nothing (1500 B.C.) or, in other words, the earth free floats in space.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

We can see this gift reflected in the homes of ancient Israel, wherein parents were charged with ensuring that their children learned truths about God.

The stories of the synagogue leader, the healed woman and the ancient patriarch teach us about daring to hold God accountable for promises God has made to care for God's people.

God was represented by one of the ancient rabbis as saying, «When they read before me the laws about sacrifices, I will impute it to them as if they offered the sacrifices before me, and will have mercy upon them for all their misdeeds.»

The sculpture of Ancient Greece, often of Olympian deities, was admired but the exuberance of much Hindu art was puzzling and Pöhlmann writes that «what is annoying about many images of the gods is their kitsch», although he adds that kitsch is a very relative term.

Together they form the account of an ancient, sacred dialogue a giant conversation initiated, inspired and guided by God with and among humanity about God, his creation and our role in it as his partners.

One can not hate something that does not exist, no no I have no feelings one way or another about any of the gods, especially the ancient Babylonian war deity, (Yahweh Sabaoth..

We've all heard the ancient, nonsensical hypothesis about the all knowing, all merciful, all loving god, who seems to find joy in destroying cities, killing vast numbers of people by floods, fire from the sky, plagues and pestilence.

Rather, the Bible is a gathering of traditional materials that gradually emerged among the people of ancient Israel and early Christianity and eventually became their authoritative statements about their God, the nature of their believing community and their terms for living.

Without a living experience of God, then the pagan claims seem convincing on their own, especially those incomplete (often misquoted) stories on the web about who and what were those ancient pagan frauds (horus, mithra et al).

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

If there was a God, it wouldn't be hard from him / her to create a message that was not confusing to ancient Hebrews (and not just those who read) about gravity waves and dark matter.

Though it might be true that the ancient Israelites had undeveloped cosmology, this is not true of God, and so for this view to be correct, we must either deny inspiration, or have God inspiring the authors of Scripture to write about Himself in inaccurate ways.

When the Old Testament speaks about God, it is not referring to one of the many gods which derived from the imagination of ancient man, but to the one and only YHWH, who not only brought them into being, but also continued to be the Lord of history.

He was a theologian in the ancient patristic sense of the word: one who could speak existentially about the experience of God.

In 1850, in In Memoriam, Tennyson expressed perplexity about the ancient earth and evolution, before On the Origin of Species was published in 1859: «Are God and Nature then at strife, / That Nature lends such evil dreams?»

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

There's an ancient / Celtic story about St. Columba, who was famous for «preserving ancient places of worship because they once were centers of honest searches for God — however misguided they might have been,» Donna Fletcher Crow wrote in The Fields of Bannockburn.

(Ramsey, «Talking About God: Models Ancient and Modern,» F. W. Dillistone, ed., Myth and Symbol (London: SPCK, 1966), p. 85.)

In such ideas may lie the ancient meaning of the baptismal bath, which gave John the Baptist a right to employ it in connection with his preaching about the coming judgment: a voluntary and therefore precautionary forestalling of the great catastrophe which God had determined shortly to bring upon the world.

Over the centuries ancient man learned to express his thinking about the world in the form of myths, or stories of the gods, in whom were personified the unseen forces he presumed to be at work in the phenomena he observed.

So, when we speak about God's love for the stranger, it is not a conversation that is based on any one particular verse pulled randomly from an ancient text, but a striking truth that is rooted in the entire revelation of God's salvific activity that culminates on the cross.

We have lots and lots of actual ancient Egyptian religious hieroglyphs — set in stone, and not changed a bit - which tell about their gods.

Perhaps in this process we have some hint as to the way in which the mind of ancient man, less adept in handling abstract concepts, was led to express the conflicts he felt among the unseen forces about him in the form of stories of the gods and spirits.

Here's another truth about evolution: the god of the Mormons is a twist on the god of mainstream Christians, who is a twist on the god of Israel who was based on other gods of ancient folklore and created by ancient man in man's image.

Indeed, Chopra and Walsch speak about God and our capacity to experience God with the realism and confidence of the ancient philosophers and poets that Luke quotes as he forms this Pauline speech in Acts.

If there were any gods that cared about us in any way they certainly wouldn't just remain silent after all this supposed activity 1000's of years ago as told by the Hindu's, Jew, s Christians, ancient Romans and Greeks, etc..

When we speak about God's love for the stranger, it is not a conversation that is based on any one particular verse pulled randomly from an ancient text, but a striking truth that is rooted in the entire revelation of God's salvific activity that culminates on the cross.

The narrative provides stirring testimony that convictions about God's power conveyed in the literature of the Old Testament move well beyond what the ancient Israelites inherited from their cultural surroundings.

That David or other people did these things in ancient times proves nothing about God or people's concept of him.

You make a lot of assertions, but can not provide any support beyond a book of ancient tribal superstitions, one of many such books (that all say very different things about Gods and morals).

His behavior at times modeling what we read about the ancient Greek and Roman gods.

Rather, the ancient Israelites were talking about their God in the categories available to them.

But as we talked late into the night about ancient Near Eastern culture, Rahab, and the goodness of God, I felt strangely comforted.

This is an imaginative story, about man rather than about the gods, and consequently it differs from the ancient myths.

What about all the Gods fromt he Ancient world, believe me, there were a ton!