Sentences with phrase «ancestor giving»

You love to tell everyone how the persecution of your ancestors gives you a special understanding of the nature of the universe.

Yes, all of us who are here arguing about this are here, despite the fact that our ancestors gave birth at home.

This suggests that «knuckle walking» is an adaptation of non-human apes, not an ancient trait that our ancestors gave up.

So why would our ancestors give this up?

Berger is arguing that a single hominin ancestor gave rise to two lineages.

«The ancients gave us verse and drama, our ancestors gave us painting and sculpture and music — what else could there possibly be?»

Not exact matches

The new test gives information on everything from how much DNA you share with our Neanderthal ancestors to how much caffeine you likely consume.

The herb inside the garden gives whoever consumes it extraordinary strength and allows them to communicate with their ancestors in a spiritual world..

The test gave me information as varied as how much DNA I share with our Neanderthal ancestors, how much caffeine I most likely consume, and whether I may have a unibrow.

It was a way to explain incomprehensible forces of nature to our early ancestors, which evolution had given a surplus of imagination from oversized brains, without the discipline to use that brain power wisely.

They are the same now as they were when he gave them to our ancestors thousands of years ago.

And the Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David.

The great unacknowledged ancestor of today's guides to journal - keeping is John Beadle's Journal or Diary of a Thankful Christian, first published in 1656, which gives comprehensive instructions for the would - be diarist.

For thereby you shall have life and shall long endure upon the soil that Adonai swore to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them.»

Todays Religions are tomorrows Mythologies, During the days of the Greek and Roman empires their Gods were as real to them as our Gods are to us today, Yet today we find their Gods a silly idea Given a few thousand years our ancestors will laugh at the silliness of people following God / Jesus while they follow the deity of their day.

Some prefer the answer given thousands of years ago by our distant ancestors who said Atum or El, or Ptah, or Vishvakarman, or Yahweh, etc. created the universe.

In Luke, Gabriel predicts that «he will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his ancestor David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob for ever...» Jesus does not inherit a throne on earth.

1 Samuel 15:22 22 But Samuel replied: «Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices Jeremiah 7:22 22 For when I brought your ancestors out of Egypt and spoke to them, I did not just give them commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices

Given the choice between the canon of scripture and modern principles of interpretation, I have no question where to camp, but I am, to a large degree, challenged by what looks like a major disconnect between modern scholarly discipline and the understanding of our ancestors in the faith.

Each gives the ancestors of Joseph the CLAIMED husband of Mary and Step father of Jesus.

Relations with the departed ancestors were declared idolatry, any Christian marriage had to be monogamous and initiation practices must be given up.

you know in my ancestors society the act of giving birth was so divine that it gave women the right to rule over our every day life.

The angel of the annunciation says that God will give Jesus «the throne of his ancestor David» (1:32).

When either our animal or our primeval ancestors were not given the responsibility for our plight the blame was shifted to the social institutions which corrupt human nature.

John Nevin and Philip Schaff were the first to give currency in North America to «evangelical Catholicism,» and are influential ancestors of my own «insouciant» United Church of Christ.

At the annunciation the angel says: «The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David».

Walker stresses that in the novel she gives her ancestors, turn - of - the - century black women, their own voice:

Hawaiiguest: I'm guessing that you won't mind, then, when usurpers come into your country, co-opt your culture with their own, have the bleeding - hearts in government reward them with more rights and privileges than you have (freely given to them from the taxes YOU pay), and make you feel like a stranger in your own country, although your ancestors called it home for centuries.

He's not mean, He is just and gives people what they want And no, he is all powerful, if He could do it, then he wouldn't be all powerful And again no, he made Adam and Eve (sustained them too) and all our other ancestors thus, no, God gave you life And no, He is constant and reliable and is continually backed up by history and science And no, you're not paying for them, Jesus Christ died and paid for your sins and mine.

I was reminded of something the British writer G.K. Chesterton wrote in his book Orthodoxy (Chapter 4): «Tradition means giving a vote to most obscure of all classes, our ancestors.

Rather, it's descent from a common ancestor (the scientific phrase in use currently is «descent with modification» meaning they share similar underlying foundation, but when they migrate (those that survive) they evolve based on environmental triggers (challenges), which give rise to mutations; that make future generations better suited to live in the new environment.

Here it is of no use to have Abraham for one's father, nor to have seventeen ancestors — he who will not work must take note of what is written about the maidens of Israel, for he gives birth to wind, but he who is willing to work gives birth to his own father.

What of the sort of cloning that has most dominated public attention - that aimed at giving birth to a child who is the genetic twin of its «ancestor»?

One day, probably not in the near future judging by how much unspent energy there still is to tap, we will simply give up trying to fix what our ancestors broke, and just admit that our good intentions are just as naive and interfering as theirs were.

But it might come more natural to someone who knows that he had a grandfather, whose grandfather told him G - d gave the Torah to his ancestors, whose ancestors were told G - d gave the Torah to their ancestors, and so on, each year, generation after generation, from then to now, that person would think about the time that G - d did give the Torah.

Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land the LORD promised on oath to your ancestors.

The Horror... it's almost as bad as when people would accuse their peers of WITCHCRAFT and then be given a mock trial where they where Drown or burned at the stake to «prove» if they where pure... It's ALMOST as bad as the systematic slaughter of people of other faiths because you felt their homeland was OWED to you... because your ancestors once worshiped there.

Of course, it's also laughable that Mormons would believe that they could, for example, somehow turn my profoundly Catholic ancestors into Mormons in the afterlife so that they could be given the opportunity to be saved in Christ.

For I will restore them to the land I gave their ancestors.»

In order to bring about a post-critical reconciliation of mind and nature we need a wider and deeper sense of the cosmos than our religious ancestors had or than modern science has given us since the seventeenth century.

Religion was created by our ancestors to help guide us but because we were given the ability of thought and understanding, there were many that misinterpreted what was left to guide us.

Origins of such a notion go far back in human history, to primitive days when our remote ancestors thought that some special anima indwelt human bodies; it was given additional support by the teaching of certain of the Greeks, with their insistence on the soul as entirely distinct from, yet temporarily the tenant of, the body — at its most extreme this expressed itself in the saying soma sema, «the body is the prison - house of the soul».

31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: «He gave them bread from heaven to eat.»»

I began to feel that the Mass gave me a living connection with my ancestors in England and Scotland before the Reformation and with other ancestors thousands of years earlier than that, in the woods and in the caves on the mudflats of Europe.

The method gave rise to the couplet: Litera gesta docet, Quid credas allegoria / Moralis quid agas, Quo tendas anagogia (which freely translates as: «The literal teaches what God and our ancestors did; the allegory is where our faith and belief is hid / The moral meaning gives us the rule of daily life; the anagogy [or mystical interpretation] shows us where we end our strife»).

In the call of Abraham to leave the home of his ancestors, in Moses» leading his people away from acquiescence in Egyptian slavery, in the prophetic protests against any localizing or naturalizing domestication of Yahweh's presence, in the apocalyptic rebellions against the status quo, in Jesus» idealizing of homelessness, in the Evangelists» turning our attention toward the Risen Lord and in St. Paul's relentless call to freedom from the slavery of legalism, we have a constant chorus of discontent at the idea that we can find our fulfillment in what nature apart from history has given us.

My friend Liz of the Lemon Bowl gave me a review copy of her eCookbook, Food From Our Ancestors: The Ultimate Italian Sunday Dinner, a series featuring ethnic recipes passed down over the generations.

Get into a country store and sit on the cracker - box by the side of two or three Georgia «colonels» and «majors,» and they will tell any number of tales about how their ancestors bought their estates from the Indians and to close up the bargain gave the «noble red men» a barbecue, consisting of venison and sweetened hoe - cake, followed by plenty of imported rum and other «firewaters.»

She also describes special feasts that her family gave for more than a hundred guests and the solemn, intimate, ceremonial suppers in honor of departed ancestors.

I'm strong and I'm excited to give birth the way my ancestors did.