Sentences with phrase «ancient greek did»

Starting in antiquity, I found that the ancient Greeks did not generally approve of abortion, while their Roman counterparts favored the use of thaumaturgy and incantations.

Do you think that the Ancient Greeks didn't marry?

The ancient Greeks did the same.

Not exact matches

Paraphrasing the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, author Will Durant wrote, «We are what we repeatedly do.

Hey Zeus (someone about whom schoolchildren today no nothing because, y» know dude, ancient Greeks were misogynists)... I don't claim Bush or the statist NCLB legislation which he passed to please Laura, or the Iraq war, which he caused to please Poppy, or his Prescription Drug Bennie which he passed to buy senior votes.

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.

I don't see you demonstrating against Greeks because of their promotion of pederasty in ancient times.

Why did he «give» so much math and geometry to educated Greeks in ancient times?

The ancient Romans, oddly enough, had a much more reverent attitude toward at least the earth than did the ancient Greeks (who regarded it much more as an enemy to be subdued).

@fimilleur from time to time mankind experiences the presence of God, there have been and continue to be events that testify to the presence of Him.The multiple gods you continually point to have an unique difference from the God who first revealed His presence to ancient men i.e. the Hebrews.The particular gods you mention roman etc. are all man made and in many instances men themselves i.e. hercules, but even the ancient greeks realized the limitations of their understanding and included an «unknown» God in their worship structure.many cultures did likewise, having a glimpse of God but not the fullness of understanding that was given to the Jews.Whether or not «we» believe, does not alter the fact that God exists as an unique being, whether or not «we» acknowledge Him «we» will stand before Him.You do not choose to understand, but we are actually standing in His presence right now as He is much bigger than the doctrines and knowledge man ascribes to Him those things you find so questionable are the misconceptions and misrepresentations of God made by men throughout history.

But what do they share with religions such as those embraced by the ancient Greeks, the ancient Egyptians, early native American Indians, or the thousands of other religions made up by isolated cultures not influenced in any way by Christianity or its founding influences?

God said we should not kill (murder is the word from the direct translation from the Ancient Greek and Hebrew) and He did not tell people to stone their servants if they worked on the sabbath (the metaphore was generated by mortal man).

Let us have done with the stupidity which makes a stumbling - block of the endless eras of expectancy imposed on us by the Messiah; the fearful, anonymous labours of primitive man, the beauty fashioned through its age - long history by ancient Egypt, the anxious expectancies of Israel, the patient distilling of the attar of oriental mysticism, the endless refining of wisdom by the Greeks: all these were needed before the Flower could blossom on the rod of Jesse and of all humanity.

For those who do not read ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, we must study the research and opinions of biblical scholars who do and who have access to the biblical source documents.

If Yahweh wanted the Ancient Greeks to worship him, why didn't he just say so?

Now, I'm sure some might play with semantics here, and I don't know ancient Greek, but I find it hard to see how this view is «listening to the Prophets.»

In a way then, your life does not revolve around Jesus but around the likes of Paul et al and the ancients and some Greek cynics.

However, if we do not assume the Greek idea of a temporary separation of body and soul, then we can think of the resurrection as affecting the whole person, all at once — as the ancient Jews thought of it.

Modern science began, as did ancient Greek science, with the adoption of an ultra-simple and essentially negative notion of causality, the belief that, given the causal conditions, what concretely happens is the only thing that then and there could happen.

Though it is certainly possible to speak of democratic arrangements in Athens or the rise of a middle class in ancient Egypt, it does not make sense to employ the term «ancient Greek liberalism» or «Egyptian liberalism.»

We may not be happy with the particular fashion in which this conviction was expressed in the several classical formulations; we may seek for and hope to find a way of stating this conviction which does not depend upon the philosophy of ancient Greek thinkers.

It is a limitation of New Thought that, like most traditions that trace their evolutionary roots in terms of the ancient Greek philosophers, it does not acknowledge the African (Kemetic) contributions to the Greek wisdom teachings.

I ask them, «Where did you learn ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek?»

Think of the ancient Greeks or Egyptians, how about the Norsk and Myans, we study them but don't believe them to be anything but myths and stories.

That's part of the issue, doesn't matter if you can read ancient Greek or Hebrew, many humans still were never given the writings in the first place.

My question is simple: How do you know that the Bible (in any form) was divinely (or Holy Spirit) inspired; and not just a collection of ancient Jewish scripture and Christian Greek scriptures?

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You sciency - types do nt abandon your worldview even though the ancient greek scientific philosophy that we base our western scientific tradition on, arose in a society founded on the belief in 12 capricious anthropomorphic gods, an animistic «universe», and an unshakeable belief in the idea of «fate».

But there are all sorts of ways of understanding the God symbol, with many thinking of God as a sort of philosophical ideal, much as the ancient Greeks might have done.

If the ancient world are not filled with such myths than does that mean the the Greek, Babylonian and Egyptian gods were as real as God?

A wide array of modern minds have thought the same: Hegel lamented that philosophy is no longer «practiced as a private art, as it was by the Greeks,» Heidegger called for a return to the Greek grammar of being, and Kant claimed that «the ancient Greek philosophers remained more faithful to the Idea of the philosopher than their modern counterparts have done.»

In rebuttal I brought up the Greek Christians during the past thousand years» — Luther was right of course that the Greeks did not acknowledge the authority of the papacy — and also the ancient fathers who had not been under the authority of the Roman pontiff although I did not deny the primacy of honour due to the Pope.»

While there is a * possibility * of a «first cause» of our universe (or god, if you want to call it that), I do not believe that any of the deities thought up by man are real... not the Middle Eastern gods, nor those of the ancient Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Mayans, or any of the tens of thousands of others.

Topher, you need to take a closer look and do a little research on the society of the ancient Greeks.

Sure: the ancient Persians, Greeks and Romans (before Christianity and Islam) seem to have regarded bisexuality as the norm for men — although their attitudes do not map straightforwardly onto modern ones (the main distinction was between «active» and «passive» or to be less euphemistic, penetrator and penetrated, with the former regarded as superior).

It's not often that a story about a food product for the American market begins with an ancient Greek philosopher, but this one does.

This then goes into a lot of theory about trigonometry and the limits of the tools, but eventually the ancient greek consensus was that, no, it couldn't be done under the stipulated conditions.

Heliocentrism: Copernicus, 1543 One of the greatest insights ever, conceived by some ancient Greeks but established only two millennia later: the Earth revolves around the sun (as do other planets).

And by the way, it was a good year for science because that was also the year that Vesalius publishes his influential book on human anatomy, correcting some of the mistakes of the ancient Greek thinkers, which actually is what Copernicus was doing, too.

One such study, done by Kevin Chow, BS» 13, when he was a senior in collaboration with Stanford, SLAC and the Getty Conservation Institute, took a deeper look at the techniques of the ancient Greek potters, which are difficult to reproduce and not entirely understood.

The seven - note diatonic scale, «do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti (do),» is another familiar example, as is the ancient five - note, pentatonic scale used in Greek lyre music and nearly every riff played on the electric guitar.

Next, they need to do a side - by - side comparison with narratives from similar times that are known to be based on reality, such as the ancient Greek histories.»

Did you know that olive oil used to be called «liquid gold» by ancient Greek poet Homer?

The detoxifying herbs in these acne capsules have been used for different types of skin ailments dating back to Ancient Greek and Egyptian times, but some of them also do not have studies backing their effectiveness on breakouts.

Looking back, the ancient Greeks, Jews, Romans, Muslims, and Christians did not have any racial categories.

The bad guys are a bit better this time also, sure they look like ancient Greek Spartan warriors but hey it looks cool, its the helmets that do it.

And finally, despite her phenomenally successful My Big Fat Greek Wedding being an ancient memory in pop culture years, Nia Vardalos's sequel did pretty well with a solid third place debut.

What Yorgos Lanthimos did which is really great is that he tells this story of a patriarchal system in this almost ancient Greek way which has been going on for thousands of years: this Roman law that the father can decide on the life of everybody else in the house.

Did you know that most of the names of characters and magical creatures in the Harry Potter series have roots in classical mythology and Latin and / or Ancient Greek?

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