Sentences with phrase «ancient times with»

Medical description of the brachial plexus injury goes back to ancient times with the modern description dating to the latter part of the 19

But in ancient times with an oral tradition there would have been no definitive version, the stories were fluid and in constant flux.

As an herbalist, I combine the knowledge of what people did in ancient times with the modern information we have.

It is very nice to have and in the ancient times with many unanswerable questions it was a comfort.

Most of them are perfectly aware that the stories of the Bible was written in historically ancient time with very different customs than our own that are not applicable to today's society.

Not exact matches

After all, when Strange spoke with the Ancient One before her death in his solo film, she slowed time down to micro-seconds to hold a fairly lengthy conversation with him.

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:

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

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.

What is really fascinating is the theory that the Hebrew and Muslim deity figure derive from a war god in an ancient Semitic pantheon whose association with the other gods was lost in the confusion that time and oral tradition bring.

Find something better to do with your time than to debate ancient christian mythology.

Satan is the ORIGINAL anti Jesus, with a DIECT link to God himself (Some consider him to be a manifestation of those who resisted the Jews in ancient times) Who came about well before Christ.

This is a distorted translation... lots of good information comes from ancient books... it's just that the bible is fictional and any useful information can be found anywhere else since the bible plagiarized any real useful information that's in it... like do unto others as you wish them to do to you... is just ancient common sense and has nothing to do with what any fantasy gods might have said... the bible is a waste of time for the stupids.

All the god has to do is show itself, just like the stories say it did so often in ancient times, and all would be right with the world and the god would have a 100 % following.

If we do not quite, as Machiavelli recommended, put on our «royal and curial robes» to converse with the ancients, we must nevertheless give these books our undivided attention and time.

The remarks Badian made some time ago in connection with the study of the deification of Alexander the Great are apposite in this respect: «Modern Jews and Christians, or modern rationalists, from their different points of view, have always found it difficult to believe that the ancient Greeks took their religion seriously since it seems so patently absurd.»

The emergence and blossoming of understanding, love, and intelligence has nothing to do with any tradition, no matter how ancient or impressive — it has nothing to do with time.

The poet dares to echo ancient Lamech with his unrestrained thirst for vengeance, 70 times seven.

Together with the opening line of the Letter to the Hebrews («In ancient times God spoke to man through prophets and in varied ways, but now he speaks through Christ, His Son...»), as well as many other biblical texts, this passage reveals to us a startling truth.

That the worship of Yahweh was at times associated with this ancient abomination is clear from the indignant protests of the prophets.

He reiterated that he had written a piece in The Times four years ago, saying: «the world must wake up urgently to the plight of the ancient churches throughout the region who are faced with the threat of mass murder and mass displacement».

Yet the basic social and cultural patterns that today condemn men and women to death, in accordance with the wishes of 65 per cent of the American public, remain in some ways remarkably unchanged from ancient times.

I think (western) Christians struggle with simple hospitality — something that in ancient times was simply taken for granted — it was deep in that culture.

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.

This lack of attention to women having sex with each other is understandable because in that ancient time it was thought that only men initiated new life, only men carried the seed for new life.

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.

''... Atheists who also wrote about how there was a list of all the egyptian rulers from the ancient times and no mention of Jacob who the Bible said co ruled with Pharaoh during the time of great famine.

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).

@PUZZLED — well see my issus lies with the fact of how women were treated in ancient times — they were property and so allowing them to go thru all the emotionals and physicals of carrying and then giving birth only to toss it off a cliff isn't what i'd call good parenting — having an abortion for many people who should NEVER have kids is (in my opinion) good parenting!

In ancient culture the peak times of the agricultural and solar years, such as spring planting, fall harvest, winter solstice, and spring equinox, threatened to seduce the people of God to the worship of fertility and sun gods and goddesses connected with these peak times.

The implications of Israel's understanding of YHWH, as expressed in the first two commandments, are completely at variance with the way ancient man thought of the gods, and explain the iconoclasm which has been prominent from time to time in both Judaism and Christianity.

The grounds on which church authorities resisted the advancing claims of the sciences were in the first place simply that they were at variance with the accepted teachings handed down from ancient times.

Part of the answer is that these ancient events are moments in a living process which includes also the existence of the church at the present day; and another part is that, as Christians believe, in these events of ancient time God was at work among men, and it is from his action in history rather than from abstract arguments that we learn what God is like, and what are the principles on which he deals with men, now as always.

One of the ancient prophets — the same, indeed, who spoke of the «king coming in gentleness» — also drew a picture of a good time to come when men of all nations will go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts; and on that day the prophet adds, «there shall no more be a trader in the house of the Lord of hosts,» 11 Jesus was offering symbolically a fulfillment of that prophecy, in line with his basic affirmation that the kingdom of God is here.

And we were all restored to joy, again and again, because I couldn't stop laughing, every time I gave birth, when it was over, I laughed and laughed in relief and wonder, like an ancient Sarah joining with God in laughter here at promises fulfilled.

But if enough time is not available, a basic course could be worked out on a typological basis in which one primitive cult, one of the ancient religions of the Near East and the two great competitors of Christianity — Islam and Buddhism — could be dealt with.

Historicism forms a barrier between us and the understanding of time that defined the Judaic and the Christian encounter with God through the Scriptures of ancient Israel.

What we have here is a «ladder of being» not uncommon in ancient times: there is God at the top, with human beings below God but above all other animals, and there are also beings above humans.

Like many points of time in ancient history, the dates in Jesus» life are not ascertainable with absolute exactitude.

Theoretically a Purana is supposed to deal with five subjects: (1) the creation; (2) re-creation, the periodical destruction and renewal of the worlds; (3) the genealogy of the gods and the ancient Rishis; (4) the great time periods, each of which has a primal ancestor or Manu; and (5) the history of the early dynasties which trace their origin to the sun or the moon.

Not only its aesthetic value, which is apparent in the power of its expression, in the depth of its sensitivity, and in its monumental structure; but also its content — the bold and colossal struggle with the ancient, and at the same time always new, human problem of the meaning of suffering — all this puts the work, in its universal significance, in a class with Dante's Divine Comedy and Goethe's Faust.8

What is needed at the present time, then, is a theology of sin that builds upon the work of the persons cited here, but that can develop a stronger connection between social structures and individuals, and with the ancient insights concerning original sin.

For example, at one point he quotes the distinguished historian of ancient science G. E. R. Lloyd, who said of Greek science: «Much as the Egyptians and Babylonians contributed to the content of these studies, the investigations only acquire self «conscious methodologies for the first time with the Greeks.»

I then took that tiny folded paper, which contained more pain and names than I care to share, and wedged it deep into a crack in the ancient red rock where it will disintegrate in time — along with my pain.

There are a variety of ways in which this is so, but, at the same time, it's clear that certain aspects of pagan familial virtue are not exactly incompatible with the Biblical sacred order that can check or overcome their excesses and pathologies — just as the Biblical order imposes powerful interdicts, not to be confused with taboos, against the kind of violent desires that, to the morbid fascination of the ancient Greeks, deconstructed and destroyed the identities of family - bound individuals.

So must the student of comparative religion when he compares modern religious movements with those of ancient times.

Instead of the Sermon's provision for cases at law, for the exercise of charity, for civic virtue, presupposing if at the same time reinterpreting the requirements of the ancient national code; instead of the Old Testament Law with its provisions for the inheritance of property, for various kinds of civic and social duties, albeit of a primitive order, which the Sermon presupposes, (Matt.

Justin points out that «rape had been used at times a s a symbol of domination, with armies raping the (male) leader of a conquered enemy... Clearly, in some cultures and contexts — whether in ancient times or in modern - day prisons — male - male rape had been used or threatened as a method of violent humiliation and domination.»

In ancient times, the priest lifted his hands upwards while saying «sursum corda» and the people responded likewise, also raising their hands aloft with their «We have lifted them up to the Lord.»

(I do not share the suspicion, which goes back to ancient times, that Mark did not originally end with 16:8.