Sentences with phrase «ancient texts out»

There are already plenty of ancient texts out there read by early christians that contradict modern Christian dogma

Gambling your soul away on a guess based on ancient texts out of fear of torture doesn't sound logical at all, especially considering how many other versions of the scriptures have been found and conflict with today's bible.

Not exact matches

Maybe when we give ourselves to ancient words and sacred texts, and embrace routines and traditions, we can remember that we are not here for what we can get out of worship; we are here to give ourselves away in worship.

It's simply one of hundreds, likely thousands of misunderstandings of ancient texts, which were mistranslated and hijacked later for assorted purposes, and taken out of their original cultural context, and used to suit a later worldview, which had nothing to do with their original meaning and iintent.

I enjoy reading all kinds of ancient texts... as you find out when doing this, reading about other religions and their texts of faith... you find that there are alot of common denominators..

Further Voobus points out that it was neither the Greek Old Testament which became scriptural authority for Hellenistic Christianity nor the Hebrew original text which was translated into Syriac but the scriptures of the Palestinian synagogue, namely, the ancient Palestinian Targumim which came to be used among the Jewish Christians.

I like how John Walton points out, that Bible texts were not written to us, but for us, meaning it was written to the ancient Israelites of Moses» day et.

Obviously Jesus Christ actually existed because of the existence of the calendar we all use (i.e. BC and AD) but we should all search for answers within ourselves and not out of an ancient text written for the purpose of controlling the mob.

This applies to other ancient texts, as I have pointed out on more than one occasion, citing the Iliad.

An ancient rabbinic method of exegesis called midrash, which sought out and inevitably found the solution to problems perceived in the biblical text, resulted in the creation of an abundant mythology that eventually took on a life of its own.

The best part about ancient partial out of context text in dead languages with the authors long dead is it can be made to mean a wide rage of sometimes contradicting meanings.

As Gerhard von Rad has established in his great work, The Theology of the Old Testament, and principally in volume one, «The Theology of Traditions,» Israel essentially confessed God through the ordering of its sagas, traditions, and stories around a few kernel events from which meaning spread out through the whole structure.4 Von Rad believes he has discovered the most ancient kernel of the Hebraic Credo in a text such as Deut.

For centuries, anatomists had dissected the human body according to instructions spelled out by ancient Greek texts.

Some senior researchers are still dubious, pointing out that ancient texts are mostly silent on such substances.

With the help of ancient texts, the two sat down and figured out the math.

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But the acupuncture treatments carried out in hospitals and other health care facilities in the West today are not based on the same principles that were established in ancient Eastern texts, according to Bao.

Biblical archaeology evidences for ancient Semetic presences through out the Middle East that verify the Scriptual records, the Moabite stone, Samaria Ok, I am confused... I thought guys were totally into the text versus actually talking on the phone.

Due to shortages of vellum in prior centuries, monasteries often had scribes cover over ancient text with a kind of «white out», or they would scrape off the ancient text.

Driven by his love for the ancient texts and by his own need to find healing following the cruel and protracted deaths of his girlfriend and his father, Doerries began reaching out through his theater company to people whose lives had been devastated by forces beyond their control — members of the military and their families, health professionals, guards and prisoners inside the giant American incarceration system, individuals and towns and cities reeling in the wake of natural disaster.

However, evidence for societal impacts are tied to drought on ancient civilisations is much stronger — the ancient «Curse of Akkad» describing the droughts affecting the Akkadian Empire; the Mayan collapse etc. — and this is well brought out in the text.