Sentences with phrase «ancient people come»

How did ancient people come to venerate meteorites, or meteorite craters, without witnessing the moment of impact?

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Let him declare and lay out before me what has happened since I established my ancient people, and what is yet to come — yes, let him foretell what will come.

Therefore a reasonable person rightly grasp that Zeus was just a figment of the ancient Greeks imagination, a way to salve their conscience as to how they perceived the «world» came into existence.

Given that we are rich when the world is poor, that we cling to our nuclear arms as if world extermination were a noble risk, destroy ancient forests, gouge the landscape, pollute the soil, water and air, that we copulate and abort with unrestrained abandon — how then are we to interpret Jesus» words, «It is what comes out of a person that defiles,» so as to come up smelling like roses?

Even if those who are to come from all directions to put to shame Jesus» fellow - countrymen are really Gentiles and not Jews of the dispersion, the words none the less naively assert that the chosen people and its heroes hold the central place in the Kingdom of God; afterward the Gentiles would join them, according to ancient prophecy.

It's always fascinating that people will scoff at 800 pages of ancient manuscripts now called the Bible, but as soon as any scrap of ancient manuscript comes along that presents a different story, that scrap is revered as more significant than the 800 pages.

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.

It comes as no surprise that ancient men were aware of their geography and their history, so it's no surprise when ancient cities and people are shown to have existed.

A more ancient view, still apparent at many points in the Old Testament, had been that righteousness was rewarded by prosperity and long life in this world, and misfortune was a punishment for sin; but as Israel suffered more and more adversity, and the most faithful individuals and groups were the most oppressed and afflicted, it came to be felt that the humble, the meek, the devout, the poor were the righteous people of God, and the mighty and prosperous were the proud, wicked oppressors.

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.

As people come to realize that the concept of «God» is just an ancient human fabrication «spiritual but not religious» seems to be a rational way to deal with this dichotomy.

As to when this idea that people weren't actually JUST heterosexual is a little more difficult to point to because same - sex relationships are all over ancient documents but it appears the concept came about circa - 1700s and the actual word homosexual came out a century and a half later.

People who come here are experts in their field, they want to know that if you're telling me something about an ancient text that you're an expert in that, or that you're reading what I'm reading.

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.

When the majority are atheists, then you can decide, but when that day comes the ancient prophesies will be fulfilled and we will have war and rumors of war and famine and pestilence and we will become a backward, 3rd rate nation which will be over run by another people who are more deserving than us!

Ancient peoples practiced this ritual with a goat or sometimes with a human sacrifice to appease the volcano gods anger, or because of the rain god hadn't come etc..

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.

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.

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.

This person called Will Butler (who told me he just was a musician) came to buy what he called my «black beast» (an ancient Heinzman piano).

This week, two major studies of the DNA of living and ancient people try to settle the big questions about the early settlers: who they were, when they came, and how many waves arrived.

These studies showing greater genetic diversity in ancient populations suggest it may not be so far - fetched to think that Siberians could have come into contact with people carrying Australasian genes, and then taken those signatures to the Americas over subsequent generations.

As befits the person who dreamed up this project, Brier is a bit over the top when it comes to ancient Egypt.

Benson suggests that much of the corn consumed by the ancient people of Chaco may have come from the Chuska Slope, the eastern flank of the Chuska Mountains some 50 miles west of Chaco Canyon that also was the source of some 200,000 timbers used to shore up Chaco Canyon masonry structures.

Three are present - day people from Peru and Bolivia, whereas another sample comes from an individual from the ancient Wari Empire, which flourished from 600 to 1000 C.E. and predated the Inca in Peru.

Ask someone to describe what «ancient man» looked like, and most people will probably come up with something that looks like that Geico caveman.

Islam is a faith followed by more than a billion people but days like today make me want to start screaming and saying that we need to come out of ancient times.

In ancient Rome, only the richest of people could afford purple - dyed clothing and, even though purple clothing is much easier to come by in modern day, it has retained its association with regality.

Awaiting those two thieves — as well as the other lead characters soon to come — is an ancient tribe of cannibalistic, Troglodyte cave - dwellers, remnants of an America long - since forgotten and a clan of beings to which the Native American people don't even give a name.

Digging up an old franchise, this ancient mummy (Sofia Boutella) comes to life in the modern world with intention of settle old grudges on a new group of people.

But when their sneering ruler Mehmed II (a hammy Dominic Cooper) comes to demand the eldest son from every family as a hostage, Vlad seeks the help of an ancient vampire who offers him a terrible deal that might just save his people.

If you observe the subtitle of the book, namely Symbolical Logo Roots, injustice comes from a very ancient human root founded on greed and dominance of people over other people.

People (some erstwhile liberal or labor supporters of the freedom movement who never had difficulty accommodating to the ancient practice of white domination and exclusiveness) profess shock and alarm when Black leaders assert that the time has come to secure majority rule in the counties, cities, towns, congressional, senatorial and state assembly districts where Blacks are the majority.

It was from parts of this branch that ancient people had shaped the first seafaring craft, and it was from its sprouts that came all trees fit for building ships.

Just as in ancient times, people would make themselves look poor when the taxman came, so do the wealthy do today.

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Huskies are a very old breed developed by the Chukchi, an ancient indigenous people in eastern Siberia, long before coming to Alaska to be used for sled - dog racing in the early 1900's.

In ancient times the Hawaiian people came together to celebrate momentous occasions, these gatherings were called «Aha`aina (which translates to gathering for a meal).

The word «tsitsikamma» comes from the ancient San people and means «place of abundant waters».

This makes it a good place to come to if you want to roam around ancient Mayan structures without crowds of other people.

I like to piece together my own lore and wonder what heppened to the people who ancients who built the ruins, where did the sentinels come from?

The spirits of the pharaohs are angry, coming into the real world because people keep stealing and abusing artifacts from their ancient tombs.

Coming in 2019, In the Valley of Gods is another first person adventure, but it takes place in the ancient valley of the Egyptian desert and what looks like the early 20th Century.

The game is a first - person multiplayer shooter which is coming to all major consoles including the PC, it's set in a unique futuristic earth with spectacular maps showing ancient Egypt, Japan and many such places which have been inspired by real world locations.

In a world where science has become a thing of the past, people have come to fear this ancient form of knowledge as m...

«JERUSALEM 1000 - 1400: EVERY PEOPLE UNDER HEAVEN» The financially pressed Metropolitan Museum came through with two classic historical spectacles this year, the other being the astonishing «Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World.»

The Discobolus (discus thrower) is one of the most famous sculptures from the ancient world and has come to mean different things to different people.

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.