Sentences with phrase «ancient cultures as»

The other reason to go underwater is that it's the place to find evidence of ship hulls, which were as important to ancient cultures as architecture, pottery, anything.

It would be a horrible mistake to consider those ancient cultures as stupid or callous.

The next day is spent at the Living Museum of the Ju / «Hoansi - San, a fascinating tribute to Namibia's oldest inhabitants - the Bushmen - and your chance to learn about their ancient culture as well as how to make fire, track animals and forage for food in a deceptively fertile landscape.

Not exact matches

Just as Beowulf gives us a glimpse at the mores and morals of the ancient, pre-christian Anglo - Saxon culture, so do the books of Bible give us insight into ancient middle eastern cultures.

Maybe Jesus and Muhammad existed as people in ancient cultures but not in any way as divine beings or messengers or sons of someone's God.

@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.

I suspect the «overwhelming» empirical evidence you claim will slowly be refuted as we learn more about ancient american cultures.

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?

Since the stories of the Bible remain so central to who we are as a culture, even today (and even for those who dismiss it), it seems entirely fitting that we should be equally interested in the ancient people who composed them.

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.

In the Renaissance we witness a new attempt at the Cappadocian gambit: an appropriation of the cultural achievements of the Ancient world, of Platonism in particular, as well as a dramatically heightened presence of the Church in the world of culture.

But now I see this passage in Peter as an expression of an ancient male - dominated culture that has no hold on us today.

Islam has retained its unity and universal characteristics in the midst of such diverse cultures as those of Arabia, Greece, Rome, and Iran in ancient times, and later in the cultures of Africa, Egypt, Turkey, Central Asia, India, China, and Southeast Asia.

But as I've already stated, a knowledge of ancient Middle Eastern culture plus a study of the Hebrew text itself does not support that interpretation.

See the answer above — I see the Genesis narratives as God graciously reaching down to an ancient culture in order to communicate to them that he is their creator, that they are alienated from him, and that he desires that they be restored to fellowship through his offer of covenant with him (ultimately pointing to the need for God to step into history himself as the One who can keep the covenant on our behalf).

Contemporary Islamic culture is bound to the ancient Islamic culture with very close ties, but the decline between the ancient and the modern period was so am parent that contemporary Islamic culture is looked upon as a renaissance rather than a continuing growth, a renaissance which has been shaped in many ways by modernism and westernization.

In the 1960s the median averages for both genders was in the early 20s, and in ancient cultures we married as teenagers.

Not only in Egypt but in all ancient cultures — China, India, Babylon and Greece too — the world was looked upon as an eternal being.

It is impossible for that ancient culture and that ancient time to be recreated and it is impossible for us to be that ancient people or to live as did that ancient people.

In ancient culture the peak times of the agricultural and solar years, such as spring planting, fall harvest, winter solstice, and spring equinox, threatened to seduce the people of God to the worship of fertility and sun gods and goddesses connected with these peak times.

Iran's culture, as with most Islamic - based cultures, are considered «barbaric» because they cling to ancient principles and actively reject secular influences.

One is that I was writing about the default neo-paganism of our culture, which, like ancient paganism, is not so much a creed as a stance.

Perhaps more impressive is the evidence of modern excavation, revealing as it does the influences that beat upon this little land in every age from all the cultures of the ancient East.

«Scripture's male - female prerequisite for marriage and its attendant rejection of homosexual behavior is pervasive throughout both Testaments of Scripture (i.e. it is everywhere presumed in sexual discussions even when not explicitly mentioned); it is absolute (i.e. no exceptions are ever given, unlike even incest and polyamory); it is strongly proscribed (i.e. every mention of it in Scripture indicates that it is regarded as a foundational violation of sexual ethics); and it is countercultural (i.e. we know of no other culture in the ancient Near East or Greco - Roman Mediterranean basin more consistently and strongly opposed to homosexual practice).

Rooted in the past as she was, intimately a part of the culture of the ancient world and heir of its thought, it is apparent at once that such wide divergence unavoidably implies bold and vigorous thinking, not by a few individuals, but by a long succession of them through the nation's history.

There is much to be learned about ancient Hebrew culture from the OT, but as for actual, factual history?

The young Catholic Churches, as they grow, develop a synthesis of faith, culture and life, and so it is a synthesis different from the one developed by the ancient Churches.

As we discussed a couple of weeks ago, if Esther was anything like a typical teenage girl in this ancient Near Eastern patriarchal culture, she would not have expected to have any say in her marital future to begin with, and so when she is «taken» with the other virgins into the harem, the chances that she would even think to defy her male guardian, or even worse, the Persian Empire, are incredibly slim.

As ancient humanity slowly accumulated its knowledge, the early cultures learned to accommodate themselves to the forces and pressures of the natural environment.

The history and culture of ancient Israel was the chief source from which this stream issued but there were many other tributaries, such as Persian Zoroastrianism and Hellenistic philosophy.

Just as the ancients used the terms «wind» and «breath» metaphorically to refer to the invisible «spiritual» forces that operate in human societies and motivate their cultures, so we may need to draw upon such vague and indefinite terms in order to understand what is happening in this tradition.

Justin points out that «rape had been used at times a s a symbol of domination, with armies raping the (male) leader of a conquered enemy... Clearly, in some cultures and contexts — whether in ancient times or in modern - day prisons — male - male rape had been used or threatened as a method of violent humiliation and domination.»

In no other culture or span of time has man's understanding of God's ways progressed so much as in ancient Israel.

The sum of all of these generations of reimagining the Bible is a Jewish mythology as rich as that of other great ancient cultures.»

The feminist exegetes give equally short shrift to pious Judaism; in a commentary on the Book of Genesis, Amherst College religion professor Susan Niditch dismisses the culture of the ancient Hebrews as one «in which powerful women are regarded with suspicion as unnatural and evil» (actually, the women in Genesis seem quite the opposite, inspiring quite a bit of respect from their menfolk).

As I said before, the modern - day «biblical womanhood» movement as expressed by complementarianism, has its roots, not in the ancient near Eastern culture in which the Bible was written, but in the pre-feminist American culturAs I said before, the modern - day «biblical womanhood» movement as expressed by complementarianism, has its roots, not in the ancient near Eastern culture in which the Bible was written, but in the pre-feminist American culturas expressed by complementarianism, has its roots, not in the ancient near Eastern culture in which the Bible was written, but in the pre-feminist American culture.

It is increasingly clear that Deuteronomy and the Priestly writings contain at least some material much older than is indicated by the usual dating of the documents.9 Increasingly, too, it would appear that scholars are disposed to accept the substantial reliability of the persistent tradition which sees Moses as a lawgiver.10 That law was an early and significant aspect of Israelite culture is further attested not only by ancient Near Eastern parallels but even more strikingly in the life, the work and the character of the first three great names in Israel's national history: Moses, Samuel and Elijah.

Future scholars will be expert in topics such as the material culture of ancient Palestine or the religious politics of ancient Alexandria, but not in the synoptic gospels or the letters of Paul.

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

As for Greco - Roman civilization, it was based squarely on slave labor, and one of the profoundest differences between the ancient Mediterranean culture and our own is that there slavery was taken for granted along with a growing consciousness of the moral compromise it involved with man's best ideals, while with us liberty is taken for granted along with deep ethical discontent at the parallels of slavery, or worse, which exist under the wage system.

Just as Jesus assumed the language, culture, and life of a first - century Jewish teacher, so the Bible «belonged in the ancient worlds that produced it.

Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self - control» Since most would agree that Paul's writings are surely divine inspiration for the total concept of «mutual gratification» in that time was not entertained in the minds of most ancient cultures it was seen more so as a «chore» that women did for their husband so that he would not stray into adultery.

Although people use those terms for a variety of reasons, I do know those who think those books tell stories of the religion and culture of the ancient Jews, and as such are only history.

One might observe in this connection that, as human cultures go, that of the ancient Semites was not particularly «repressive» of the sexual impulse; there were plenty of nonsacred prostitutes around, and the temples of Astarte did not have a monopoly in the brothel business.

Last week, we discussed Enns» incarnational analogy — in which he posits that just as Jesus assumed the language, culture, and life of a first - century Jewish teacher, so the Bible belonged in the ancient worlds that produced it.

In his words, «The Kingdom of God as a process of open commenssality, of a nondiscriminating table depicting in miniature a nondiscriminating society, clashes fundamentally with honor and shame, those basic values of ancient Mediterranean culture and society» (Crossan: 70).»

What little they have to say in their ancient texts on this topic (and many other topics) reflects their distate for the practices of all foreign peoples and cultures, as well as their discomfort with all things pertaining to the erotic, such as nudity, intimacy and bodily fluids — things that they themselves kept hidden and quiet about.

For not a few of them probably go back to an ancient Aryan or Indo - European source which underlies Western as well as Indian and Persian culture.

It's a ancient cultured, minimally processed, fermented soybean product with as much protein as beef.

Endemic farming is an important part of this training; reintroducing ancient traditions helps to preserve local culture while improving yields, as these methods often come from centuries of hard - earned experience.