Sentences with phrase «ancient accounts of»

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Our faith in the resurrection is far more — indeed, radically other — than acceptance of the ancient accounts of Jesus» appearances to his disciples.

One argument which has been attempted against its historicity has been that there are ancient accounts of floods to be found among other peoples; however, rather than discounting the reality of the Flood I view this as corroborative.

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the intense and intricate problems, which the brother Primates and local Orthodox Churches face on the account of intolerance and religious fanaticism, especially the ancient Patriarchate of Antioch and our beloved Primate, Patriarch John of Antioch.

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

In his account, the Church's attempts to tame violence through preaching humility and peace had a negligible effect on the ancient traditions of manliness until its efforts were joined with the state's in the early modern period.

What is your evidence, Theo, that the ancient writings, many of which are of unknown authorship, that, for some, represent alleged «Word of God», represent anything other than opinion / hearsay accounting?

The Creation account of Genesis is often taken as literal historical narrative, yet in reality is is a beautiful example of ancient eastern poetry, with many truths hidden within it.

Trying to heap an ancient written Jewish code on modern Gentile Christians (and non --RRB-, tellingly without even an understanding of said code and a complete indifference to the message of Jesus and to the accounts in the very bible being worshipped in His place.

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

Although we must not ignore the imagery of the wind and the water in this text, nor must we think that the flood account is nothing more than a ancient myth designed to illustrate a spiritual truth.

The new fact stains the ancient truths, forcing them to adjust their framings in some small but irreversible way in order to take account of it.

Moreover, the problem of primitive Christianity is not to account for early Christian messianism — for there was enough of that element in ancient Judaism, after the second century before Christ — but to explain why Christianity survived when other messianic movements came to nothing and disappeared.

A cookbook and an assembly manual will generally go in total chron order so the user does nt mess up the meal or the machine they're building, but the Genesis account is written in an ancient Hebrew style that shares none of your modern techno - biases.

All in all this is a remarkable and valuable book, not only for the illustrations it offers of ancient rites, but also for the accurate accounts it offers of the way in which baptism was addressed by early Christian writers from the New Testament to the fourth century, making great use of Cyril of Jerusalem and John Chrysostom in the east and Ambrose and Augustine in the west.

In other words, the presence of multiple accounts of some incredible flood in ancient times would argue in favor of such an occurrence, rather than assume they all borrow upon each other.

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.

Is there any way you could provide the reference to the ancient texts of the egyptian account (s), and / or some of the others (Sumerian, akkadian... etc.)?

Doubtless this pleasant young man soon found someone unacquainted with Joseph Smith's Testimony, that ubiquitous missionary tract which contains the official account of the prophet's visions and his discovery of the ancient record chronicling the lives and times, vicissitudes and final destruction of a Hebraic people whose patriarch immigrated to America with his family in 600 BC.

Moreover, this entire system is based on a collection of ancient stories that has been picked over, edited, and censored by the «leaders» of these factions so that the other accounts do not infringe or contradict what they have been promoting.

So before someone begins doubting the accuracy of the Gospel accounts of Jesus based on some supposed parallels to ancient Persian, Greek, and Egyptian mythology, it would probably be wise to check the facts on the ancient mythology.

There follows now in chapter in an account, obviously ancient in origin, of the making of a covenant in which God in solemn, primitive symbol commits himself to the promises inherent in the election of Abraham.

Many accounts of Jesus life were written, the most ancient ones written by eye witnesses (luke is the only one that wasnt written by an eye witness) were canonized.

For example, the theory of evolution is contradicted by the existence of technically advanced pyramids that we could not even re-create today, or by ancient hieroglyphics that depict our solar system before Galileo ever made his discoveries, whereas these things fit perfectly well within the Christian account that acknowledges the antediluvian and / or pre-Adamic worlds.

He offered a forceful «Christian» view of man, comparing this view with others that fail to take into account all the facts of human existence — Greek classical views in the ancient world, and naturalism in the modern world.

These examples show that, just as the creation account of Genesis 1 should be read in light of other Ancient Near Eastern creation texts, so the New Testament writers should be read in light of Second Temple texts.

(there are other differences that involve 3 different ancient Hebrew traditions and slightly differing versions of the flood account - but too involved to discuss now)

Once we take into account the capacity of the ancient Jewish mind to create a story as a way of expounding and showing the relevance of a Biblical text (this practice will be described in Chapter 9), it is not at all difficult to see how the story of Joseph of Arimathea could have been partly shaped by Isaiah 53:9, «And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death,» found in the famous chapter on the suffering servant, which was certainly interpreted by the early Christians as a prophecy of the death of Jesus.

Moreover the entire account is reminiscent of the stories pervasive through the ancient Orient of intellectual and magical contest in the presence of a monarch.

3) Biblical scholarship relating the creation account of Genesis and ancient Near Eastern cosmology continues to become more accessible to the average reader, so Christian university students are in a great position to learn from Bible professors why a literal, scientific reading of Genesis 1 and 2 need not be a fundamental element of the Christian faith.

Most people reading the ancient scriptures understand these accounts of hearing God's voice as miracles that really did happen but no longer take place today, or maybe as folkloric flourishes to ancient stories.

As a result of this, some have taken this to mean that the accounts in the Gospels of John the Baptist were fabricated, or «borrowed» from the ancient Sumerian myths.

@Dale, Ancient accounts tell of an important figure whose birth would be heralded by a star in the heavens, a god who would later judge the dead.

As I said in my little book on Schleiermacher: «He began neither with ancient dogmas nor with ancient history, but with what every Christian experiences, and he sought to give an honest account of it that would not run away from the intellectual problems of the modem world.»

Archaeologists in Israel have made an interesting find that offers further evidence of the accuracy of the Bible's account of ancient history.

They hold on to a particular interpretation of an ancient story in Genesis that they have fashioned into a modern account of origins - a story that began as an oral tradition for a wandering tribe of Jews thousands of years ago.

Parallel stories in ancient myths do not mean that the Gospel accounts of Jesus are false.

«The core issue raised by ancient Near Eastern data has helped calibrate the genre of the biblical creation accounts.

For example, the creation account of Genesis 1 is arguably more meaningful and more profound when we understand it, not as a modern science text, but as an ancient Near Eastern temple text that honors Elohim as ruler over creation.

The more ancient, of course, is the one that starts by saying, «In the beginning, God...» And the newer is the account of the world as science and reason give it.

At the same time any interpretation must take into account the confessional form of this tradition; that is, that its present structure, intent, and emphasis are derived from its use in worship and its repeated recitation throughout ancient Israel's generations during annual celebrations of the great deliverance.

She places the same level of authority in ancient traditions and the personal views of uninspired authors on passages like the Creation account as she does in scripture itself.

(The dove, a visible sign of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament accounts of Jesus» baptism, was a bird often linked to female deities in the ancient Near East.)

So you are acknowledging that there are essentially NO contemporary accounts of ancient historical figures.

In dismissing the feminine Holy Spirit as an idea present only in «obscure and heretical sects on the periphery of the Christian church,» Jewett had relied on research that did not take into account the 1945 discovery near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, of some 50 ancient texts.

It is remarkable that in spite of the massive scholarly work on medieval science there are still books on the history of science that begin with an account of the achievements of the ancient Greeks and pass immediately to the Renaissance, completely ignoring the contribution of the Middle Ages.

The passover is re-established, not afresh, but in a form deemed to adhere for the first time in centuries to ancient rite (23:21 f.; observe that the Chronicler, II 35, greatly expands and elaborates the account of this passover celebration).

7.9, 10, 13, 14, which because of its metric structure is to be distinguished from the remainder of the chapter, and is the account of an assembly of gods at which authority is passed from one god, designated Ancient of Days, to another, younger god, designated Son of man.

It has also been estimated that corn accounted for up to sixty percent of the daily diet of the ancient Maya.