Sentences with phrase «ancient people made»

Even before people discovered how to distill plants to create aromatic fragrances, ancient people made simple perfumes through infusion (discussed below).

Today, the descendants of that ancient people make up one of the distinct populations in Belize.

Not exact matches

From water - and snow - resistant parkas made from skins worn by hunters in polar regions to garments fabricated using woven straw, such as the ancient Japanese mino, people have long sought ways to remain dry while outside in wet weather.

If someone wanted to make papyrus the way the ancient Egyptians did, we know what the end result has to look like, the person trying to recreate it just has to keep trying different methods, using tools and materials we know existed at the time, until they get the right result.

The stories of the synagogue leader, the healed woman and the ancient patriarch teach us about daring to hold God accountable for promises God has made to care for God's people.

I'm a historian who feels a part of a great community and who wants to make sense of what ancient people said and to appreciate it.

When modern people assume that we have made so much progress over ancient or nonindustrialized cultures, they forget this point.

Regardless of one's interpretation of this much - debated and reimagined text (which makes a bit more sense in its ancient Near Eastern context), the story of Abraham's binding of Isaac should unsettle every parent and every person with a conscience.

Feuerbach further offended the people of his day by suggesting that the ancient nature religions remained superior to Christianity since they were sensuously in touch with the earth and with nature, whereas Christianity had become separated from nature, and had made of God a separate, sexless, spiritual being.

The knowledge we have today can't be compared to ancient harmful and ignorant myths, although I admit that being ignorant must feel very comfortable for some and I think people are free and have the right to be stupid, but no one has the right to make it sound as though their personal nonsense is the universal and inflexible truth.

Radio ministers not only kept evangelical doctrine before the people; they made it clear that legions still built on the firm foundation and walked on the ancient pathways, and would teach their children to do the same.

People are finally understanding that religion is all man made, just like the Mormon myths of golden tablets and ancient Mormons in South America.

Actually, assuming you made it out of infancy, people in ancient times had a much better chance of reaching the age of 60 than we do.

We can see that this might make sense to someone brought up in the ancient Jewish tradition in which an unblemished animal was sacrificed to God to make atonement for the sins of the people, and in which the iniquities of Israel were all put on the head of a goat which was then driven out into the wilderness, taking the people's sins with it.

Imagine how you would feel if confronted by an ancient Chinese person who told you had to join him in beating drums to make a dragon cough up the moon in order to end a lunar eclipse.

But with bringing all this ancient stuff up we are again repenting of other people's sins... which makes us true Christians or hypocrites?

Reading all the comments, frankly why people should take some mythological figures and ancient history made out in mordern times to hate a section of people, frankly who knows how Jesus was and what exactly the «Jews» did to him 2000 years back, these are just stories made up in the minds of people.

Perhaps in highly personalized societies of the ancient type, such a usage might make sense — under kings, tyrants, or tribal chiefs, for example, where one person made all the crucial social decisions.

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.

What makes otherwise intelligent, educated people buy into ancient mumbo jumbo stories?

In ancient days when the king would travel, a courier would go days before the king to make sure the roads were in good repair and the people ready to receive the king.

If the churches raise the drawbridge, hide in their ancient pageantry and make some angry or dismissive response, it will simply confirm in people's minds that we have something to hide or simply don't know the answers to their questions.

The real brave people of the world though, use knowledge and actually trying to figure out how the world works for real.And by doing this they actually saving lives and make life better for everyone including those who go to church and those who preach ancient fairy tales.

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....

It stresses that «all peoples comprise a single community» and that from ancient times «there has existed among diverse peoples a certain perception of that hidden power which hovers over the course of things».21 Reference is made to the contemplation of the divine mystery in Hinduism and to Buddhism's acknowledgment of the «radical insufficiency of this shifting world».

Then through all of the vicissitudes of actual life in the ancient Near East, God made himself a people from those forebears — delivering them from slavery in Egypt, protecting them against their enemies, leading them through the terrors of the wilderness, entering into covenant with them, giving them his guiding presence in the covenant law, bringing them into a land flowing with milk and honey, giving them a Davidic king to be their protector of justice in peace and in war, and finally taking up his own dwelling in their temple on the Mount of Zion.

When we read Genesis in an awareness of what is to follow, we know that these stories of origins were created and preserved through the centuries not so much to inform ancient Israel about the past as to inform about the present; not so much to speak of what once was as to make clearer what now is; not so much to show interest in what had gone before the history of the people of Israel as to make that very history clear in its significance and meaning.

Most adults in this country don't have the intelligence to make it through a novel, how can we trust them to make good judgments based on an ancient text from an ancient people?

It can not know for sure what ancient people thought about death or even the things they made.

They also contain complete protein, from ancient grains like quinoa and amaranth, making them an ideal snack suitable to people with dietary restrictions.

These are ancient dates, to be sure, but an incontrovertible truth straddles the centuries: people of principle eventually become sickened by the compromises they make for power.

«How do we use these very ancient traditions to help people who are making these really difficult decisions?»

Noh - Bec is not ancient; it was founded in the 1930s by chicleros — people who made their living mainly by harvesting natural chewing gum from chicle found in trees that abound in the Yucatán.

«We aren't trying to make barley a fad diet, but we're telling people «Hey, here's a modern version of an ancient grain, and it's good for you!»»

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.

Ancient people from Turkey to Egypt experimented with local substances such as blue water lily, while imports like cannabis and opium made from poppies spread through early international trade networks.

The researchers discovered that ancient clam gardens made by Aboriginal people produced quadruple the number of butter clams and twice the number of littleneck clams as unmodified clam beaches.

The ancient Maya and Aztec people also mixed cacao seeds with various herbs to make medicines.

The people of Greece have been staying healthy and slim since the days of Aristotle and Plato eating a traditional or ancient diet made up of mainly...

These days, the ancient wisdom of astrology is making a massive comeback and many people are fervently checking their horoscopes.

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At one point he said he got some emmer or eikorn (ancient wheat types) made bread and ate it without the problems that modern wheat produces in him and many other people.

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.

However, given that the subject is, to say the least, touchy, the fact that this film was even made is worthy of at least some kudos to Maher for having the guts to potentially offend the vast majority of people in the country, and perhaps the world, with his expression of doubt in their beliefs and his own belief that, though many individuals have found great benefit from the ancient scriptures, religion ultimately does more harm than good when looking at it in its totality from a global historical scale.

Much as I'm a great admirer of Chekhov and I do regard him as an ancient influence in some way, I never really thought about Chekhov until we'd made the film and people started to make this observation.

Tilda Swinton makes for a terrifically affable Ancient One, while Rachel McAdams shines as an «ordinary» person finding herself at the centre of some very abnormal goings on.

They'd make sure audiences would see parallels to present - day extremists in Ronan's vow to stay true to his Kree people's ancient ways and his determination to exterminate the modern culture spawned on planet Xander (whose inhabitants look just like Earthlings).

He doesn't make any headway, but when nearly all his resources are exhausted he hears rumors of a person called The Ancient One, who lives in a compound in Tibet and has magical powers.

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