Sentences with phrase «ancient man saw»

This might be how ancient man saw his eternal destiny, but this was not how YHWH had spoken His Word to Israel.

A review of the ways in which ancient men saw their world.

Not exact matches

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.

I can see what you are saying about ancient men making up a God to explain creation.

The Yazidis, another ancient religion, saw ISIS abduct more than 3,000 of its women and girls for sexual enslavement, and mass graves of their men are now being unearthed.

He remembers the word of the simple sage of ancient times: «This, that a man's eye can not see by the light by which the majority see could be because he is used to darkness; but it could also be because he is used to a still clearer light, and when this is so, it is no laughing matter.»

due to racism, bigotry and ignorance, most modern historical books in the west do not or have not mentioned such historical facts bc for white men who compiled history books, any credit to any area east of Greece would have been too shameful, but again, when you read about ancient Persian culture and see it in action and look at their tablets and beliefs and artifacts and books, it's quite clear that the Persian Zoroastrian role is all over this....

To see our existence as some kind of coherent story, we have to be able to relate it to a larger story — our «little story» has to be fitted into a «big story» just as archaic men and ancient apocalyptists both saw.

Rosenzweig argues that while all peoples appealed to all three elements, only the ancient Jews saw a relation among these three» a relation in which man and God and world all lived in response to one another.

Again, all according to ancient men who wrote the bible and never saw the resurrection.

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.

I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him.

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.

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.

Now that we have briefly sketched the role of myth and ritual in the ancient world we can see why it is convenient to use the label «mythological» to describe the world of ancient man.

The classical prophets of ancient Israel regularly report seeing into another world (cf., for example, the opening verse of Ezekiel: «The heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God»), though they are without the healing powers characteristic of the holy man proper.

These references depict a society still in touch with its roots, old men and old women renewed in the shade of Jesse's ancient stock, their old frames, matured by godly fear and faith, now become the polished horn for the spirit's eloquence: «The people who have walked in the dark have seen a wonderful light... for unto us a child is born.»

Within this cosmopolitan Israel the sense of freedom, sparked off by the deliverance from Egypt and consummated in the kingdom of David, gave rise to a new kind of faith, which as we have seen, was destined to diverge more and more from the mythological religion of ancient man.

It is easy enough to see what has happened: the seer has interpreted the translation of Enoch in terms of the call of Ezekiel and of the appearance before the Ancient of Days of the Son of man.

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»).

Having been on the press tour for the upcoming Ant - Man, he's been talking about Edgar Wright's departure from the project [see here], the studio's «big plans» for The Wasp [see here], gender - swapping The Ancient One in Doctor Strange [see here], introducing an LGBT character into -LSB-...]

Your humble narrator, Alex, will tell this story my brothers... First they see an ancient man, leaving the library carrying books, very suspicious, nobody goe

Your humble narrator, Alex, will tell this story my brothers... First they see an ancient man, leaving the library carrying books, very suspicious, nobody goes there now, inspecting these filthy things and ripping them to pieces, not forgetting a few punches on the offender, to stop this evil habit, next entering a shop and borrowing some needed money, the owner and wife have to be persuaded with just a little force, for this honor, then teaching a scummy drunk, in the street, the evil of his ways, pounding some sense into his addled brain.

He set about copying the Faun with such care and study that in a few days he had perfected it, supplying from his imagination all that was lacking in the ancient work, that is, the open mouth as of a man laughing, so that the hollow of the mouth and all the teeth could be seen.

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When we were in the Riviera Mayanear Coba, we saw tons of assembly line art, but wound up buying from a man who taught local children and tourists the ancient craft of Mayan pottery and distributed profits equally among families in his village.

Peru offers unforgettable experiences and memorable adventures including the ancient man - made wonder, Machu Picchu which is on many peoples must - see tick list.

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.

Finally, Scavenger's Odyssey see's players become an alien treasure hunter, manning a unique vehicle armed with twin pulse cannons and a Scavenger beam to destroy asteroids and travel towards an ancient relic.

Carrying around a vision device — a makeshift construction that allows him to see the world while at the same time reflecting the surroundings through a mirror surface — the young man explores a natural environment reminiscent of a greenhouse or biosphere, while the film also alternates archival historical images of ancient ruins.

In an ancient legend that depicts various cultures, blind men who had never seen an elephant decided to examine a small part and figure out what an elephant looked like.