Sentences with phrase «ancient times by»

The little dog has been a beloved pet for at over 2000 years and was described in ancient times by the Greeks and Romans.

Frankincense Essential Oil: Frankincense has many benefits for the great skin and it has been used since ancient times by wealthy people to enhance beauty.

Utilized in the ancient times by the Greeks and Romans, Fennel seeds are carminatives or herbs that work by reducing bloating and gas — among many other stomach problems.

Moringa, native to Himalayan Mountains, a tropical plant species, is cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, Africa and South America has been highly valued since ancient times by Greeks, Romans and Egyptians for its wide range of medicinal benefits for various ailments.

This was proved in ancient times by Euclid, and it is hard to overstate how profoundly amazing this proof must have been — and remains.

The word spoken in ancient times by the prophets becomes fully the Word of God because it refers to the incarnate Word.

But the church in particular thought that its teaching possessed incontestable authority because it had been received in ancient times by divine revelation.

These things were known since ancient time, very very very ancient time by every street astrologer.

Not exact matches

Then tell me why we're at $ 1.2300 on the strength of comments by a French dude who is going to be ancient history by the time they even start talking about the Brexit settlement!!!

That time period in ancient China, by the way, corresponds with what is called the Spring and Autumn Period (about 771 to 476 B.C.), which tradition associates with the Chinese teacher and philosopher Confucius, one of the first to espouse the principle:

It's funny how most all those books were written by men in different time periods, and yet there stories all go back and match those of the ancient Egyptians.

You just have to take the time to think about it long enough to see that these ancient written texts were written by humans with less knowledge about science than we have now.

@fimilleur from time to time mankind experiences the presence of God, there have been and continue to be events that testify to the presence of Him.The multiple gods you continually point to have an unique difference from the God who first revealed His presence to ancient men i.e. the Hebrews.The particular gods you mention roman etc. are all man made and in many instances men themselves i.e. hercules, but even the ancient greeks realized the limitations of their understanding and included an «unknown» God in their worship structure.many cultures did likewise, having a glimpse of God but not the fullness of understanding that was given to the Jews.Whether or not «we» believe, does not alter the fact that God exists as an unique being, whether or not «we» acknowledge Him «we» will stand before Him.You do not choose to understand, but we are actually standing in His presence right now as He is much bigger than the doctrines and knowledge man ascribes to Him those things you find so questionable are the misconceptions and misrepresentations of God made by men throughout history.

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.

19th century, archaeological finds (e.g. earth and timber fortifications and towns, the use of a plaster - like cement, ancient roads, metal points and implements, copper breastplates, head - plates, textiles, pearls, native North American inscriptions, North American elephant remains etc.) is not interpreted by mainstream academia as proving the historicity or divinity of the Book of Mormon.This evidence is viewed by mainstream scholars as a work of fiction that parallels others within the 19th century «Mound - builder» genre that were pervasive at the time.

There are no precedents by which to discern its meaning, hence the readiness of some Christians to apply the ancient words of the prophets to events in our time.

In fact, he used Namaan's healing by Elisha as the ancient Hebrew warrant for his own ministry to the gentiles: «There were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Namaan the Syrian» (Luke 4:27).

Logue deploys Homer's vast historical and linguistic inheritance to create an Iliad that, perhaps for the first time, is not held hostage by a yearning for the lost world of ancient Greek.

By this «in - mythologizing,» there is the possibility of penetration into the reality which the ancient cosmology and the mythology used by the biblical writers was attempting to state in language appropriate to their timBy this «in - mythologizing,» there is the possibility of penetration into the reality which the ancient cosmology and the mythology used by the biblical writers was attempting to state in language appropriate to their timby the biblical writers was attempting to state in language appropriate to their time.

So your work - life is guided by evidence, analysis, logic, and reasoning but in the rest of your life you are happy to accept the best guess of ignorant ancients which has been proven incorrect time and time again?

He remembers the word of the simple sage of ancient times: «This, that a man's eye can not see by the light by which the majority see could be because he is used to darkness; but it could also be because he is used to a still clearer light, and when this is so, it is no laughing matter.»

Some light on the ancient texts is shed by the financial debacle in our own time.

We see the climax of this process in the Middle Ages by which time Christianity had become a fully - fledged religion in the ancient meaning of the term.

Others have called it Aton the sun disk, but that was 3000 years ago in Egypt, even then the whorship of the SUN was an ancient one long forgotten by the Eyptians at that time.

We can sum up what actually did become the way of Christian living in the ancient world by saying that the Christians lived in the economic, political and social orders of their time seeking new patterns but conforming to the general requirements of the common life, and accepting constituted authority except when it required idolatrous worship.

First, N.T. Wright, Bishop of Durham, responded (Correspondence, June / July 2008) to Richard John Neuhaus» comments on his new book, Surprised by Hope, which had included a criticism that its «concrete eschatological expectation» of a physical resurrection on a perfected earth was «more suggestive of Joseph Smith than St. Paul»» noting that Mormons were simply taking seriously the relevant passages in the New Testament at the very time that «the Western Protestant church... was eliminating the ancient concrete eschatological expectation.»

Democracy (first practiced on a historically notable scale by the ancient Greeks) predates Christianity by a rather long time.

In ancient times, primitive man asked himself does that flash of light followed by a loud rumbling noise in the sky offer proof of god.

I think that joey's talking about Asherah, who was widely worshipped by the ancient Israelites up to the Exile, and was probably seen as YHWH's consort during that time.

So we fight back with logic and ask them to prove their beliefs with something substantiative that can be tested without a doubt and not some ancient texts written by MEN (no matter how many times they claim it's «HIS» word).

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

By the time of her wedding, she came to realize that there is no such thing as an entirely original wedding ceremony: «marriage means stepping into an ancient institution marked by hundreds of temporal particulars,» so your wedding's dearth of originality is no shortcominBy the time of her wedding, she came to realize that there is no such thing as an entirely original wedding ceremony: «marriage means stepping into an ancient institution marked by hundreds of temporal particulars,» so your wedding's dearth of originality is no shortcominby hundreds of temporal particulars,» so your wedding's dearth of originality is no shortcoming.

At the same time, the struggle to avert chaos in ancient apocalyptic pushed it also in the direction of devaluing the concrete new event by absorbing the whole into the final totality.

Pious heathen of ancient and modern times all want to come to God themselves, by prayer, by a virtuous life, by stern discipline, by a holy life.

Without even recounting the crucifixion, Bell presented such vivid images of the patterns of sacrifice in the ancient Near East (the cultural setting for the sacrifice of Isaac) that by the time we got to the story of Jesus, our hearts and minds were connecting the dots.

(Then I went on to say) I quite understand the ancient, binding custom of what is called the «ban» by the imposition of which, as the Jerusalem Bible apologetically footnotes, «in this war between Yahweh and Baal those who serve Baal suffer the fate of the conquered in the warfare of the times.»

as far as i'm concerned, any misunderstanding and misleading version of Jesus» ancient story caves in on itself after it is tested by true hearts, erased in time.

Turbans have been worn by Cypriot men since ancient times and were recorded by Herodotus, during the Persian rule of the island, to demonstrate their «oriental» customs compared to Greeks.

The ancient myth of the end - time, by virtue of its cosmic character, was much broader in its outlook than the eschatological concerns of many later Christians.

By this time there were tons of sects in Judaism because nobody understood the Law and the prophets properly because it was so confusing and written in ancient Hebrew that had probably been modified so many times that nobody knew what it said in the original anyway.

We find ourselves quite unconvinced by much of the ancient rabbinical reasoning, a little of which is reflected in the letters of Paul.7 Nevertheless the Jews spent much time trying to learn how the Scriptures they had inherited from a former period were to be seen as relevant to their own day.

Their history as a people, from the time of the ancient Babylonian exile onwards, has been strongly marked by the theme of death and resurrection.

It grows trite to repeat that they were a new achievement of the ancient world; the stories from other oriental lands of the time were crude and commonplace by comparison.

There lived in ancient time a holy man, Called Manu, who by penances and prayer Had won the favor of the Lord of Heaven.

and then the last post I read to be David saying, «The fact is that the bible is a collection of ancient timed documents written by men».

The fact is that the bible is a collection of ancient timed documents written by men.

In the Qur» an it is made clear that from most ancient times the word Islam has been used by all divine messengers and their followers as the name for their religion.

The natural alternation of day and night, the waxing and waning of the moon, the yearly round of the seasons, the succession of one generation by the next, all led ancient man to a cyclic view of time.

Lessing was not merely one of the most comprehensive minds Germany has had, he not only was possessed of rare exactitude in his learning (for which reason one can securely rely upon him and upon his autopsy without fear of being duped by inaccurate quotations which can be traced nowhere, by half - understood phrases which are drawn from untrustworthy compendiums, or to be disoriented by a foolish trumpeting of novelties which the ancients have expounded far better) but he possessed at the same time an exceedingly uncommon gift of explaining what he himself had understood.

Thus, emerging churches often characterize themselves as «ancient - future,» a phrase that comes from a series of books authored by Webber (Ancient - Future Faith, Ancient - Future Evangelism, Ancient - Futureancient - future,» a phrase that comes from a series of books authored by Webber (Ancient - Future Faith, Ancient - Future Evangelism, Ancient - FutureAncient - Future Faith, Ancient - Future Evangelism, Ancient - FutureAncient - Future Evangelism, Ancient - FutureAncient - Future Time).