Sentences with phrase «ancient man thought»

As far as the very many creation myths that ancient man thought up, they are just that myths.

The implications of Israel's understanding of YHWH, as expressed in the first two commandments, are completely at variance with the way ancient man thought of the gods, and explain the iconoclasm which has been prominent from time to time in both Judaism and Christianity.

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If it was compared as just another collection of ancient, man - made, literature I don't think there wouldn't be the polemic responses.

This viewpoint is far from new, for some of the ancient Greeks felt the same way, with the man named Epicurus (341 - 270 B.C.E.) espousing this thought.

This lack of attention to women having sex with each other is understandable because in that ancient time it was thought that only men initiated new life, only men carried the seed for new life.

al., The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man, An Essay on Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East [Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1946], p. 4 ff.)

If anything ever destroys it, it'll be religious nuts who think they're fighting some holy war for the invisible man who lives in the sky... geez, haven't we outgrown the needs for these ancient fairy tales yet?

We live in a vastly different context of thought from that of ancient man.

Over the centuries ancient man learned to express his thinking about the world in the form of myths, or stories of the gods, in whom were personified the unseen forces he presumed to be at work in the phenomena he observed.

We must remember that in Israelite tradition there was a long history of visionary experiences, commencing with the ancient theophanies in which God was thought to have «appeared» to men in human form.

if you're thinking thoughts like these, clearly you need to hone up on your ancient language skills, man!

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.

Why should a tale of a man living in the digestive tract of an aquatic creature for three days and exiting unscathed be thought of as more valid than the story of a man who translated ancient writing with magic seer stones?

European man before Galileo — whether ancient pagan or more recent Christian — thought of the world as controlled by plan and purpose.

The character of ancient thought entailed that the basic dualism of man's existence should express itself in mythology, and this, in turn, in cult.

The same line of thought, carried a little further, brought the author of the Book of Daniel to describe how thrones were placed and the Ancient of Days seated, with a fiery stream flowing out in front of him, while millions of ministrants stood in his presence or performed his bidding; then «there came with the clouds of heaven one like a son of man, and there was given him dominion and glory and kingdom, that all peoples and nations should serve him» (Dan.

You quote an ancient book, written by men, and think that makes your point?

While there is a * possibility * of a «first cause» of our universe (or god, if you want to call it that), I do not believe that any of the deities thought up by man are real... not the Middle Eastern gods, nor those of the ancient Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Mayans, or any of the tens of thousands of others.

(For those of you reading this and thinking that I'm speaking a bunch of gibberish: Purim is a Jewish holiday that celebrates the saving of the Jewish people from an evil man named Haman, who plotted to kill the Jews in Ancient Persia.

This suggests that the ancient tendencies still exist but may be less influential than previously thought, because they are also reinforced by arbitrary social norms such as the convention that men usually approach women when there is potential for romance.