Sentences with phrase «ancient man knew»

But it was not simply an intellectual exercise, far less a form of entertainment, for ancient man knew himself to be involved in the processes of life and divine encounter which he saw all around him.

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For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

The correct category for things dealing with ancient man will henceforth be known as «olds» and «history»

Whereas they pointed to the pantheon of gods in their unseen heavenly world, the Bible pointed to one who was in no way to be identified with the gods of ancient man, but who was known to them in the sphere of human history as the deepest reality confronting them there.

It further seemed a matter of common - sense to ancient man that this inner spirit or soul, which he knew from the inside and which he witnessed in his fellows, should be immortal or deathless.

For very ancient man, the whole world was alive with the kind of life he knew within himself.

Not ancient myths written by ancient men that have been butchered throughout history to benefit who ever «knows» the «real» word of god.

So we fight back with logic and ask them to prove their beliefs with something substantiative that can be tested without a doubt and not some ancient texts written by MEN (no matter how many times they claim it's «HIS» word).

A well - known New Testament scholar has expressed the opinion that «the modern man does not believe in any form of salvation known to ancient Christianity.

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority.

Now that those who are «with it» no longer look to the Old Man of the Mountain for his ancient help, everyone seems to experiment with some kind of substitute which he thinks will order the universe and bring happiness.

An American poet (F. Bland Tucker) has translated part of the ancient Christian document known as the Epistle to Diognetus, using these words: «He [God] came to win men by good - will, for force is not of God.»

It was know not to be flat in ancient times, and then that knowledge was lost and man believed the world to be flat.

We have known for a long time that the ancient Israelite believed that through certain actions or rites he was able to be present at, and actually share in, the events of the past which had created his people's life and thus had made him what as a member of that nation he was: a man who belonged to «the chosen people of God».

The ancients knew this, and unlike us modern men, they accommodated and pacified Hyde.

The Rector of the new University already knew Martin well; Staupitz had persuaded Dr Trutvetter a reliable man who had had enough, after twenty - five years, of the difficulties always generated in such a Complex ancient foundation as Erfurt was, to come over to teach at Wittenberg.

It was most certainly heavily used by known ancient rulers - from Persian emperors who left behind what was clearly fictitious accounts of themselves, to Cleon of Athens; from Alexander the Great's mom claiming he was a product of an affair with a god to Augustus who commissioned art to portray himself as humble and a man of the people.

He is known at the Capitol for his histrionic flair: he once dressed as the ancient Greek figure Diogenes in an apparent search for an honest man, and smoked a joint in the building to make a point about marijuana laws.

But ancient DNA now reveals that the «Tianyuan Man» has only traces of Neandertal DNA and none detectable from another type of extinct human known as a Denisovan.

Releasing scientific results in this way is notoriously risky, and unsurprisingly there is now some backpedalling going on: Cheddar Man may indeed have been dark - skinned, but we don't know for sure (see «Ancient «dark - skinned» Briton Cheddar Man find may not be true»).

MARKED MAN A dispute over which of two ancient mummies sports the oldest known tattoos has been settled in favor of Ötzi the Iceman, who died roughly 5,250 years ago.

Here, we report the low - coverage genome sequence of an ancient individual known as «Shuká Káa» («Man Ahead of Us») recovered from the On Your Knees Cave (OYKC) in southeastern Alaska (archaeological site 49 - PET - 408).

It positively impacts almost every system in the body, which is why the enlightened rishis — the ancient Hindu holy men of India — considered it one of the finest herbal medicines known to man.

It may be interesting to know that sulphuration of wine is not a modern invention but in fact one of the oldest preservation methods known to men and was rountinely practiced by the ancient Greeks and Romans (besides sulphur they also added resins for that purpuse — hence the famous retsina).

One of its strongest assets is its cast, with superior actors in the leading roles: Cumberbatch as Steven Strange, the brilliant and arrogant New York surgeon whose reason for existence is cut short by a horrific car crash... Tilda Swinton as a mystic known as the Ancient One who is willing to lead him to enlightenment in Kathmandu if only he will subjugate his inflated ego... Chiwetel Ejiofor as her faithful follower and right hand man... Benedict Wong as the guardian of the library where the accumulated secrets of their sect are stored... and Mads Mikkelsen as the brilliant student gone rogue who may soon destroy the earth, one major city at a time.

From the moment that he looks down on the ancient gray head of Noah, who is swinging his stone axe, the narrating crow in this unique and remarkable epic knows that these creators called Man are trouble.

Beginning with the 1984 discovery of the body now known as the Lindow Man in a peat bog in England, this installation in the Time Travelers series examines the anthropological information about ancient Celtic cultures gleaned by bog mummies.

The Quest for Z brings young readers the story of Percy Fawcett's early 20th - century explorations in the Amazon, where he hoped to find the fabled, ancient city of «Z.» Readers know from 2015's Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower that Greg Pizzoli writes about complicated people with honesty and never condescends to young readers.

To protect the country of Nia, Duchess Nadea and Scholar Paug make a desperate journey to find a human legend: A man known to have destroyed these Ancient foes with a powerful army.

Lara is a little older, a little wiser, and a little more dead - set on following in her father's footsteps now that she knows he's not a total loon... see, her old man used to go on about ancient secrets, guarded treasures, holy artefacts, that sort of thing.

Some of its set pieces feel more tongue in cheek than the other games (see the ghost ship in No - man's Wharf), but if that means we get to fall hundreds of feed through a tear in time and space onto a throne room suspended in a chaos realm before taking on an ancient king and his cronies with a litany of soldier friends at our back — it's straight up Paradise Lost fan - fiction — then I don't mind some cheese on occasion.

A believer in the collective unconscious, Garabedian gravitated intuitively to the imagery and narrative of his ancient Armenian ancestors and, as in Harlow, to those icons that shine in his hometown of L.A. Garabedian is well known for this unique and imaginative subject matter: beautiful woman, powerful men, beleaguered women [Clytemnestra & Iphigenia] and chained men [Prometheus Chained].

Ever since the beginning of the world as we know it, in times of conflicts, a basic plot ancient as man himself has regularly emerged in the world of literature - the overcoming of the monster.

If you know anything about native americans from the southern tip Argentina to the northern tip of Canada, (both which are farther in either direction then Chile and Alaska,) there's two things that are striking very few city civilization like ancient Egypt or ancient India, and very few farmers up until the white men descended upon their poor ar — .