Sentences with phrase «ancient people believed»

Many ancient people believed that the sun was a god and that winter came every year because the sun god had become sick and weak.

The Earth is not a «circle» it is a sphere, ball, or globe, unlike the disc - shaped world many ancient people believed in.

What helped the spread of Christianity are the facts that, 1) ancient people believed myths to be true and 2) violence & brutality come in handy when enforcing law... or so they thought.

Ancient peoples believed that destructive natural forces were the result of a God, their sense of how the natural world works was absent.

Not exact matches

If we are to believe the Bible then the Jews conquered the land of Israel from the native inhabitant — which were the ancient people of Palestine.

Let's teach kids that primitive people still cling to ancient folklore, but that those beliefs are no more reasonable than believing the Easter Bunny lays colored eggs.

It's one of those ancient fear things that was created hundreds of years ago when people still believed that bad things can happen to you if you don't believe in God and obey Him.

you believe in a narrow view of a god based on ancient fairy tales and that if you adhere to the teachings of a supposed son of god you will go to disneyland in the sky forever... which is damm ridiculous... I consider myself an atheist but I am aware of the possibility of a creative force which created the universe... but that god chatted with people 2000 years ago and brought out a book is childish and stoopid!

Two thousand years later, the vast majority of the world's population has disregarded the belief that dragons roam the sea, Zeus, Poseidon, and most other ancient gods (as these people thousands of years ago believed), yet the world inexplicably still clings to the thousands - year - old myths of God and Jesus.

«R.M. Goodswell Christians would have you believe that they were singled out by the Romans... other cultures and peoples faired poorly when encountering the empire... heh... even being roman didn't buy you a pass sometimes in ancient rome... if they felt they needed fresh bodies for the arena, you became fodder.

That is a misunderstanding that many people assign to atheism, but has never actually been a part of the words usage (even in ancient times, atheists were those without god, while other terms were used to refer to those that BELIEVED there was no gods).

Its mind boggling to me that people still believe in these ancient fairy tales.

I'm not convinced that just because another ancient group of people believed it was a «hard dome» that necessarily we have to force that belief on the Hebrews.

Yet Christians believe that He chose Abraham (and not any other person in the ancient world), and from Abraham's descendants (through Isaac, but not through Ishmael, and through Jacob, but not Esau), He created for Himself a covenant people.

Like I said, people rush to believe any ancient manuscripts EXCEPT what we now call the Bible.

so you don't believe much of ancient history... the people of those did not exist?

Rather, the Bible is a gathering of traditional materials that gradually emerged among the people of ancient Israel and early Christianity and eventually became their authoritative statements about their God, the nature of their believing community and their terms for living.

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

It was something celebrated in the later history of the Hebrew people, a ceremony through which ancient nomadic folk from the wilderness believed that God was coming to them in the form of a cloud.

Christians need to learn to step outside themselves and think about how difficult and annoying it is to talk to people about important issues when the only thing Christians base their «ideas» on is ancient Middle Eastern fairy tales and that they were told to believe something.

Aristotle believed that such a capacity is limited to communities roughly the size of the ancient Greek city «states (approximately fifty thousand people living in close proximity to each other), but the modern nation «state proves him wrong.

People who believe ancient myths are true are ignorant.

Why do ignorant people still believe in ancient myths?

Christianity believes in the One True God that guarded over the ancient jews and their ancestors the hebrew an their ancestors the Israelites and their ancestors the Arbrahamic people and their ancestors the Semites, and their ancestors the Table of Nations geneology and through his true prophets foretold Jesus» coming thousands to hundreds of years in advance with Jesus fulfilling over 300 + prophecies and confirming himself to be the One True God in the flesh to offer the final contract with all of humanity.

People who blindly believe ancient Middle Eastern fairy tales are embarrassing themselves.

Only morally weak, intellectually lazy people need to believe ancient Middle Eastern fairy tales are real.

We need to invent a new word for people willing to believe the writings of unknown authors, of unknown origin, of an unknown but ancient time, which is badly worded, internally AND externally (with modern science) inconsistent, full of statements with no actual arguments to back them up, with the only decently educated people to back it all up are theologians who twist the meaning of words and commit logical fallacies and still only try to prove that SOMETHING must exist, not that christianity is the truth.

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».

So there is truth in the ancient texts, and those texts show that the truth evolved based on human knowledge evolving... and we know human knowledge always has it faults... but I refuse to believe more in Satan or whatever evil power makes people afraid to advance our understandings....

So when in middle age I come at last to believe that a nation builds up a moral treasury of merit by the sacrifices of its people in war and I begin to worry, like the ancient moralists did, that we grow fat, lazy and contemptible amidst our plenty, I don't have a leg to stand on.

No difference between the gods of the ancient world and the one that people try ot believe exists today.

I believe you are thinking of a time that came much later than the Bible, after many of the ancient libraries were burned by marauders and leaders who did not want the common people to have access to the studies of those who had come before them.

That Mormons believe that Native Americas are directly decedents of ancient Israeli peoples and as such are Jewish contrary to all genetic, archeological, and linguistic evidence.

Even though is not enough peer - reviewed science to verify these claims, we at Farmer Direct believe that not only is it important to restore ancient grains to people's diets, but that we have a responsibility to grow them using responsible farming practices in high - quality soil.

The ancient Romans and Greeks believed in the magical power of amber, they even buried people with amber necklaces as a symbol of influence and power.

There was palpable tension at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State today as some indigenes of the ancient city attacked persons believed to be indigenes of Osun over issue of ownership of the institution.

Monte Verde For decades, archaeologists believed that the Clovis people were the first Americans, arriving via an ancient land bridge between Siberia and Alaska and then making their way south.

In ancient China people traditionally beat drums and banged on pots to scare off the «heavenly dog» believed to be devouring the sun.

Yoga today is a mainstream fitness activity; 1 in 5 American adults participates in what most people believe is an ancient practice.

Most people believed they were ancient algae.

Those ancient people might have believed that pleasing this god would bring them rain, water and lightning.

Rhys - Jones believes that this ``... extraordinary situation» is due to Kow Swamp people being a - ``... relict group of the original occupants of Australia... «41 Thorne believes the two distinct Australian groups -LRB-» modern» Mungo and «primitive» Kow Swamp) had separate ancestries - one from Java and the other from ancient China.43

Indeed, it's believed that the rite originated with the ancient Thracian peoples of Greece as part of their cult of sun worship.

6) The economic cycle across the world is usually more correlated than most people believe at any given point in time, even in ancient times.

Ancient Egyptians believed that the Maltese had the ability to cure people of illnesses and would position a maltese beside the pillow of the sick person.

We have continued an ancient symbiotic relationship and facing the prospect of giving that up now because a few misinformed people believe that dogs don't need dog breeders is tragic.

NAIA cherishes the human - animal bond, believing that people and animals are bound together by natural law in an ancient relationship that benefits both.

The ancient Mayan people who lived in the Yucatan believed cenotes were gateways to the underworld (they sometimes threw sacrificial victims and buried their dead in cenotes).

It's an extremely varied and beautiful region, and one of the most amazing off - road experiences, where the ancient collide with the modern, the forests run into deep lagoons, high desert plateaus bask in the sun, and the people, living in the shadows of moldering pyramids and temples, believe in magic.

Here you will experience the difference the ancient culture and local believes of the local Mayan people.