Sentences with phrase «ancient understandings of»

All of these ancient understandings of sexuality affect how same - sex behavior discussed in Scripture, and all of them should call into question the notion that people — and the Church — have a held just one single «traditional» view of same - sex behavior.

Throughout God and the Gay Christian we see how patriarchy and ancient understandings of gender roles affected how same - sex behavior is referenced in Scripture.

While it may be hard to understand, our knowledge of the world has actually evolved over the last several thousand years so many of the ancient understandings of the way the world works — and written into religious text — are obviously and verifiably wrong.

This is what happens when new technologies clash with ancient understandings of the sacred.

By the way, Metatron is the correct name of the Voice of God, and is consistent with the ancient understanding of the Hebrews of the name of the Voice of God.

An expert in Feng Shui, the ancient understanding of energy — or Chi — in nature, highlighted this cliff - top hideaway for its powers of healing and good fortune.

Not exact matches

therefore belief and worship of a middle - eastern ancient prophet is not necessary to understand the universe.

Even though the scripture uses some aspects of ancient mil life to help us understand spiritual truths, the mil life and church life are not a perfect analogy or paradigm by which to judge the other.

@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.

Still, it may be worth pondering that in this brave new world, those who uphold the old and much derided «gender binary» — or, to speak more properly, the ancient understanding that there is a real and normative difference between the sexes — will be the ones who can actually see some sort of meaning, however misguided, in things like same - sex desire and gender dysphoria.

Even the ancient Hebrews understood the context and meaning of the analogies being made?

what has happened is that education has improved our understanding of the world, and the ancestral and ancient ways we looked at the world..

According to ancient Jewish canon (law) a priest (of which Jesus was one) was required to be at least 30 years old, married and have children BEFORE becoming a priest so that he would be able to understand the problems and conflicts of marriage and parenthood.

Trying to heap an ancient written Jewish code on modern Gentile Christians (and non --RRB-, tellingly without even an understanding of said code and a complete indifference to the message of Jesus and to the accounts in the very bible being worshipped in His place.

Apparently it is almost unthinkable to the militant creationists that the ancient Hebrew texts could have been written without a understanding and interest in the physical relationships of space and time.

(For example, given Wright's understanding of what the Reformers meant by «literal,» I wonder if they wouldn't be open to scholarship that interprets Genesis 1 as an ancient Near Eastern temple text — see John Walton's The Lost World of Genesis One — rather than a scientific explanation for origins.)

In thus opening the entire Canon of Scripture to the free study of the laity, the reformers did not intend to abandon the ancient framework within which it was to be understood.

By pressing the ancient moral criterion of equity while refusing to discuss the economic criterion of growth, the clergy in effect revived a medieval understanding of faith as intellectual sacrifice.

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.

Of course no one who has even the slightest understanding of ancient, pre-modern or modern history could countenance this laughable ideOf course no one who has even the slightest understanding of ancient, pre-modern or modern history could countenance this laughable ideof ancient, pre-modern or modern history could countenance this laughable idea.

The purpose is to underscore what ancient philosophy had understood about itself and the purpose of the liberal arts.

Anyway, last week, we talked about Chapter 2 — «The Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Literature» — in which Enns tackles the difficult question of how to understand the Bible as special and revelatory when Genesis in particular looks so much like other literature from the ancient Near EasternAncient Near Eastern Literature» — in which Enns tackles the difficult question of how to understand the Bible as special and revelatory when Genesis in particular looks so much like other literature from the ancient Near Easternancient Near Eastern world.

Part of the problem with the Bible is that since it is written in an ancient format, people have trouble reading and understanding it.

In the understanding of most ancient people and, thus, in the Bible, the sun orbits the Earth.

I say this with an understanding of the history and the politics of the ancient middle east, particularly from about 200 BCE to about 135 CE.

And in the ancient churches it's easy to construct a vision of the medieval man or woman who once sat in the same hard pew — a person who understood, as we never can, his or her place in the universe.

The lady of the Song speaks of her unguarded vineyard (1:6), and there is frequent reference (2:16; 4:5; 5:1; 6:2) to the garden (s) where the lover grazes, not among «lilies» (as traditionally understood), but on the lotus, an ancient and famous sexual symbol.

This generalization indicates the decisive point at which Whitehead's transformed understanding of nature breaks with that of the ancients: the word that sums it up is «Evolution.»

Jensen succeeds in her efforts because she understands that, in baptism, «visible images and actions, along with verbal recitation of ancient stories, prayers, hymns, all contributed to making an invisible presence more palpably sensed» (Jensen, Baptismal Image 3).

Most ancient interpreters understood the Timaeus» arche to regard a metaphysical, not a temporal, principle: Wallis, 20, 65, 68, 77,102 f [19] For the metaphysical grounding of these statements cf. J. McDermott, S.J., «Faith, Reason, and Freedom,» Irish Theological Quarterly 67 (2002), 307 - 332.

In fact some churches do a good job of enhancing their understanding of ancient wisdom with modern knowledge.

Understanding the religious practices of ancient Middle Eastern culture can and does help in understandiUnderstanding the religious practices of ancient Middle Eastern culture can and does help in understandingunderstanding the story.

Even if we were certain of the original meaning of the root underlying the Hebrew noun we could hardly take this as conclusive evidence of the basic understanding of the Old Testament prophet in the middle centuries of the first millenium B.C. Rather, we will have to understand the sense of the term nabi» from the person of the prophet himself as he appears and functions in the community of ancient Israel.

The Ancient Greeks, the Roman Kingdom and early Roman Republic had a much better understanding of and toleration for human s.exuality.

Understanding of the problems of the mind in the ancient world was more sophisticated than we might think.

Our care, or at least our understanding of the appropriate scope and implications of care, has become more inclusive than it was in ancient Greece.

Frankly, any understanding of divine sovereignty so unsubtle that it requires the theologian to assert (as Calvin did) that God foreordained the fall of humanity so that his glory might be revealed in the predestined damnation of the derelict is obviously problematic, and probably far more blasphemous than anything represented by the heresies that the ancient ecumenical councils confronted.

Especially when we understand it in light of its historical and cultural contexts (which is the only way to read an ancient document like the Bible).

By virtue of this translation, we can understand the ancient story in a new way.

The ancient Greeks understood music as something related to tie very structure of the universe.

It allows the Word of God to remain alive rather than shrouding it in the binder of the most read, but yet the most misinterpreted book ever written — because many of those who read it, read it through the eyes and mind of an ancient civilization that was only beginning to understand the mysteries of creation.

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

Now if, in addition to all of this, we recall another psychological phenomenon in ancient Israel, the normative sense of corporate personality among the people of Israel (and the East in general, as over against the West), we are in a position to understand as fully as is possible the personality of Jeremiah or Ezekiel.

To the normal difficulty of penetrating to a more profound level of understanding is added the burden of thinking in terms of both an ancient and a modern world - view.

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Heretofore in Israelite Yahwism the meaning of the present was taken primarily from the understanding and interpretation of the past, as, for example, in the ancient cultic confession of faith recorded in Deut.

3, page 157) «Furthermore your ideas, as we understand them, appear to contemplate the intermarriage of the Neg.ro and White races, a concept which has heretofore been most repugnant to most normal - minded people from the ancient partiarchs till now.

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.

Perhaps all the details (light on the first day, dry land on the second day, a garden with two trees, the snake, etc) were just a way of explaining these relationships to ancient peoples in terms they could understand.

But from what I understand out of the ancient monastic materials I work on, prayer is really an entire relationship, and the verbal part is only one element.