Sentences with phrase «ancient peoples lived»

Herb Maschner, an Arctic archaeologist at the University of South Florida in Tampa, agrees and says the careful excavation methods and analysis serve as a good example of what archaeologists need to do to answer questions about ancient people living in central Alaska where the conditions for preserving bones and artifacts are «notoriously» bad.

Studies such as this are important not only because they provide clues about how ancient people lived.

A gene that was once helpful to ancient people living in the Arctic is today shown to be harmful to us, as researchers surprisingly found during a new study.

The researchers hope to not only find out how these ancient people lived, but also see how to use the forest in sustainable ways.

Not exact matches

Using a dating technique that measures how much radiation had built up in the flint since it was heated, Hublin and his team say the ancient bones belong to people who lived roughly 300,000 - 350,000 years ago.

In ancient times, people who were dissatisfied with their lives dreamed of finding magic lamps, buried treasure, or streets paved with gold.

As for silly people who spend a year or any amount of time trying to live exactly as the ancients lived, by re-enacting practices found in the Bible, they do a great disservice to God's Word and His people.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers but there is heaven and afterlife for the souls or the personalities that lived behind those computer but not the actual hardware of the computer... after all if you had the soul you can fix it to any more developed hardware that is suitable to living heaven or hell... Though all people hated dark and favored light for it... but as seems that Mr.Stephen Hawking is favoring the Dark over the Light which he named as «Fairy Tales» or «Tales of the Ancient»...!

It wasn't just how the early Christians died that inspired so many people in the ancient world; it was how they lived.

I choose to live according to a morality that I have some say in, not one that was originally imposed upon an ancient people, hopelessly removed from my culture.

You people realize you're basing your entire lives around a few scraps of ancient paper written by primitive people?

Rather, the evidences of modern people - groups and ancient people - groups show a high percentage of humankind reaching for the supernatural no matter what life they have encountered.

In local communities, Hassler suggests, ancient truths abide: words retain their power to save or ruin lives, good and evil can yet be distinguished, people remain accountable for their acts, and sin, penance, and absolution are still valid coin of the realm.

Using all available means, they examine the ways of living and thinking, the customs and institutions, and the life - situations of the people originally addressed by the ancient writers in order to determine the intended meaning.

If your so - called «faith» is so strong and «protects» you from all of your perceived «dangers of evil», then WHY are you so afraid of people who have simply decided to live a life guided by REASON instead of a life guided by contrived dogma and ancient mythology?

Religion is not healthy for children nor any living thing If reading those ancient and primitive «scriptures» convinces you to be a good person, then good for you!

That is an ancient doctrine of the faith, but too often today people shy away from it and try to mitigate the revealed truth that a religious vocation is more perfect than any secular life can be.

To fill the gap left by a weakened church, people are not only experimenting with both new and ancient forms of the spiritual and psychic life; they are searching for religious books that deal with the complex problems of society in personal, direct and simple ways.

Doubtless this pleasant young man soon found someone unacquainted with Joseph Smith's Testimony, that ubiquitous missionary tract which contains the official account of the prophet's visions and his discovery of the ancient record chronicling the lives and times, vicissitudes and final destruction of a Hebraic people whose patriarch immigrated to America with his family in 600 BC.

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.

Because we have had these experiences and live with these developments and because these experiences and developments can not be erased or quarantined from our perceptual and analytical processes, we are not capable of developing an adequate or reasonable comprehension of ancient times, cultures and people.

The scripture was written to and written for and written by ancient people of an ancient culture living in an ancient time.

It is impossible for that ancient culture and that ancient time to be recreated and it is impossible for us to be that ancient people or to live as did that ancient people.

The ancient Hebrews were a wicked people who were constantly killing other people, supposedly upon orders from «The Lord» yet YHWH's son Yehoshua preached a completely different message that was filled with love for other people and instruction to live peacefully with them.

The Jewish people were one ethnic unit living not only within the ancient boundaries of Palestine - Judea but scattered throughout the Roman Empire.

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.

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.

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.

The Deuteronomic commandment, in other words, is God's inspired revelation to his people - it is trustworthy and authoritative - but it must be understood both in terms of the historical realities of life in ancient Israel (the people's sin) and in terms of God's wider revelation in the whole of Scripture.

If Dunne is reckoning correctly, the age when people take death seriously as a personal reality, a point that today occurs before midlife, was near the end of the average life span for people in the ancient world.

I've seen enough archeological evidence to support the claims of the Book of Mormon that the people that lived in the ancient America's really did exist when and how the book describes.

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.

«The loss of Jewish sovereignty was the defining political event in the life of the Jewish people,» Ruth Wisse's Jews and Power opens, and though the Jews should be proud that they have survived since the loss of ancient Israel, «this pride in sheer survival demonstrates how the tolerance of political weakness could cross the moral line into veneration of political weakness.»

We have almost no concept of the culture and day - to - day lives of those ancient people, so how could we take what they said and apply it to the 21st century?

Belief in resurrection, historians tell us, emerged in ancient Judaism only when disaster followed disaster and Jews could no longer feel confident that their memory and legacy would be preserved in the life of their own descendents in particular and the Jewish people in general.

People base their lives on the ancient ravings of some ignorant schizophrenic jewish eunuchs lol just lol!!!!!!!!!

As a short, inductive introduction the emphasis is on meaning and especially on the meaning of the ancient text in the life and faith of that ancient people, Israel.

It is evident from this long and tedious record that warfare was a way of life for the ancient people of God.

Ancient man found himself living in a world which seemed to be a gigantic living entity which could hardly be described as «it», for it pulsated with life akin to that which he experienced in his own person.

The Bible was not the ingrown musing of some remote peasant folk; it was the achievement of a people whose painful destiny it was to live at the crossroads of the ancient world; it gathered up the best that that ancient world had created and, under the genius of a people who were uniquely fitted for their task, transmuted all into forms and expressions of their own incomparable convictions.

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.

If they are from a biblically conservative tradition they are likely to use selected references to sexuality, marriage, and family to communicate the ideals of God in a way that will encourage and motivate people to strive for the ideal.6 This didactic use of the Bible fails to distinguish the radical difference between family life and the religious practices of ancient and modern cultures.

As the Word springs forth from the vortex of its ancient setting to express itself through the vortex of text / preacher / people in social context, the Word of God happens; it becomes a proclamation event in the lives of the people experiencing the sermon.

In the ancient church, each converting person had a sponsor who was a spiritual director and a living example of what it means to be a Christian.

The Hebrews thus were quick to act against practices in the ancient world that were common to other people but which violated the principle of the sacredness of life.

If the Bible needs to be interpreted for modern times that just proves it's nothing more than an ordinary book written by ordinary ancient people, and there's no more reason to base our laws or our lives off it than the Iliad or Beowulf.

Both forms of image, the audible and the visible, played an important role in the religion of the peoples among whom ancient Israel lived.

There are only gullible people like yourself, who have been suckered into the ancient, illogical, stagnant mythology of magical thinking and others, like me, who choose to pursue the scientific method and spend the rest of my life improving my own knowledge with new discoveries and participating in the great modern renaissance of mankind!

«The loss of Jewish sovereignty was the defining political event in the life of the Jewish people,» Jews and Power opens, and though the Jews should be proud that they have survived since the loss of ancient Israel, «this pride in sheer survival demonstrates how the tolerance of political weakness could cross the moral line into veneration of political weakness.»

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.