Sentences with phrase «ancient events like»

You talk about Christians being hateful and you throw out ancient events like the Spanish Inquisition and The Crusades as your proof that ALL of us are bigoted, hateful, bible thumpers with the sole intent of annihilating all who don't believe.

Not exact matches

There are many biblical predictions («prophecies» in bible terms) that have been fulfilled, predictions that were made hundreds of years before the event, like the fall of some empires / nations (ancient and current), a natural and supernatural sign at a particular place, a catastrophe, etc..

Part of the answer is that these ancient events are moments in a living process which includes also the existence of the church at the present day; and another part is that, as Christians believe, in these events of ancient time God was at work among men, and it is from his action in history rather than from abstract arguments that we learn what God is like, and what are the principles on which he deals with men, now as always.

like I said, the similarities end at the flood account, and it certainly is to be expected to that that real event reflected in ancient stories from other cultures..

However, if I was an ancient Israelite, and I saw things like the Red Sea parting, staff turned into snakes, and the Shekinah glory, and prophets predicting specific future events with 100 % accuracy, and other nations setting their face against Israel to destroy her and / or engaged in human sacrifice, and they weren't typical humans but were actually a group of hybrids like the Nephalim or the Rephaim that were polluting the gene pool to try to foil God's plan of ultimately bringing a Messiah to save all mankind one day, and God wanted them to repent and sent them warning after warning, and they refused, and God commanded me thus....

Everything I've read are either historical accounts of major events in the ancient world (ie somebody like Livy gives you general outlines of the foundations of Rome, and then during the actual Republic / Empire period they give you major events, but not what the government did, and the issues it dealt with, and how it dealt with them, on a day to day basis.

Because the Ptolemaic era is one of ancient Egypt's most well - documented periods, the dates of major political events are known with some confidence, note the researchers, adding that what is often less clear from the ancient writings is what specific factors triggered events like revolts.

Studying historical, astronomical and biblical records, Mathews believes the event that led the Magi — Zoroastrian priests of ancient Babylon and Mesopotamia — was an extremely rare planetary alignment occurring in 6 B.C., and the likes of which may never be seen again.

«All the questions we have about ancient evolutionary events — what our last common ancestor looked like, when methane metabolism arose, when oxygen - producing organisms evolved — they really benefit from having more genomes to look at and a more detailed tree,» says Parks.

How this is done is actually quite fascinating, with cataclysmic events and occurrences like you'd find in the histories and mythologies of Ancient Greece and Rome.

It plays like a retro beat»em up but it also has a historical element in that its story follows events of ancient Britannia.

That, and I was at a Gran Turismo event recently where they had PS1, PS2, PS3 and PS4 games, and the PS1 and the PS2 games, they looked ancient, like why would anybody play this.

These ecosystems, primarily the Arctic tundra (5), peatlands (1), and tropical rain forests (6, 7, 8), harbor ancient, highly - concentrated carbon stocks, which are rapidly released during fire events like the one in Indonesia.