Sentences with phrase «ancient worlds»

Last week, we discussed Enns» incarnational analogy — in which he posits that just as Jesus assumed the language, culture, and life of a first - century Jewish teacher, so the Bible belonged in the ancient worlds that produced it.

Just as Jesus assumed the language, culture, and life of a first - century Jewish teacher, so the Bible «belonged in the ancient worlds that produced it.

From the ancient world to the Renaissance, the educated classes devised shockingly effective coping mechanisms.

The Giza Pyramids — one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World — can be found here, plus historic neighborhoods like Coptic Cairo.

-- As empires emerged in the ancient world, local religions began to take on universal characteristics, with moral codes that diverse groups could follow.

She and her students spend their time trying to understand how the atmosphere worked in the ancient world — sometimes finding themselves knee - deep in bogs collecting buried pollen or ash from ancient fires.

More than two thousand years after the original Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was destroyed in an earthquake, a group of architects wants to build a 21st - century version of it.

At the time, Alexandria boasted the world's largest collection in the ancient world.

His other books include Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy — and What We Can Do About It, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (McGraw - Hill Professional); Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets are Moral and Big Government Isn't, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, August 2012); How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, November 2009); and Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today... and the Lessons You Can Learn, co-authored by John Prevas (Crown Business, June 2009).

In the ancient world, Muslims did contribute to the world.

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

It is called «The Hetoimasia, Etimasia (Greek ἑτοιμασία, «preparation»), prepared throne, Preparation of the Throne, ready throne or Throne of the Second Coming is the Christian version of the symbolic subject of the empty throne found in the art of the ancient world» - Wikipedia

Actually, attaching a moral dimension to religious views was not a common attribute in the ancient world, that was the realm of philosophy.

Our love is to give the ancient world of «eternal cycles of return» a fresh and real history of responsibility, of daring, of potential progress and of threatening degradation.

Easter was called Oester or Eoster in the ancient world.

We actually have a good bit of evidence - more than a great many known historical persons from the ancient world, and with a lot more detail.

What follows is in effect a history of theories of suffering, beginning with the ancient world.

If the ancient world was anything like some places today, I'm sure there was a large degree of persecution.

@ Numbers 31:17 - 18 Destroying entire populations in warfare was a practice that occurred throughout most of the ancient world, and by no means was limited to Israel.

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

«Martyrs were like the action heroes of the ancient world,» Moss says.

I actually think the article is very affirming of early Christians because it points out that their love for others and the inclusive community they created was the it - factor that awed so many in the ancient world.

so just to get this correct christians carry around a symbol of ancient world torture as a good thing?

Assumed, the apostles had been liars or impostors, it had emerged within weeks, because people from Palestine had accused them to be liars (note that the ancient world was as international like our modern world, because of trade).

See Smithsonian Timelines of the Ancient World, Chris Scarre, Dorling Kindersley p176

The Romans were the most efficient record - keepers of the ancient world, but no record of this guy who was supposedly a rabble - rouser who was brought in front of the local governor (and his scribes, by extension).

CNN: Buddhas in 3 - D: Technology and the battle to preserve Asia's heritage A darkened room in a Hong Kong university building is an unlikely portal into an ancient world.

marcus aurelius was known in ancient world to caper and cavort with FOUL UNCLEAN SPIRITS DEMONS RAISED FROM GETHENNA TO MASTERS OF NIGHT LORD OF BABYLON!!!

The problem for Islam is that the crucifixion of Christ is one of the most reliably attested facts of the ancient world.

What is, are the words used and their meanings in the original, and translated texts from the ancient world.

This is not to say that feminine imagery couldn't be appropriated positively by a Jewish male in the ancient world.

Casting out demons in the ancient world was equivalent to eliminating a fever.

In the East the ancient world was transformed more slowly than in the West.

Then, instead of reading like the «Around Home» section or the obituary column of a small - town newspaper, it could have provided a more worthy document of the life and times of the ancient world, a register of the designs and deeds of the truly great men and nations of the ancient Near East.

An entire adult life spent in prayer and fasting in the temple may have equipped her for high status in the ancient world, but to us such choices are nearly incomprehensible.

The lime was significant, as it was used in the ancient world as a form of disinfectant to prevent contamination.

Mosul, the second - largest city in Iraq, is built on and adjacent to the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh, the setting for the biblical book of Jonah and once the most powerful capital of the ancient world.

Most of the cosmologies in the ancient world began with a cosmic ocean, darkness and a generalized formlessness — just as Genesis does: «And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep» (1:2).

In the Renaissance we witness a new attempt at the Cappadocian gambit: an appropriation of the cultural achievements of the Ancient world, of Platonism in particular, as well as a dramatically heightened presence of the Church in the world of culture.

Pictures of the terror by which rulers in the ancient world sought to maintain their authority ought not to be applied to God's exercise of his rule and should not, in my opinion, be used to suggest that Jesus taught that the wicked would burn for ever in hell.

In the ancient world in general, such ideas held sway and even Aristotle conceived no function for the brain except to cool the blood.

It was the practice in that ancient world, as it is now, that anyone who owed money to another had to work it off.

The current evangelical biblicism turns a few scattered condemnations of certain homosexual practices in the ancient world into a law against all forms of homosexual activity today.

The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges: the pox and Christianity.

God's wilderness wanderers find themselves outgunned and outmanned, standing in the shadow of the ancient world's superpowers.

The Temple was a wonder of the ancient world, vast, ornate and rich.

They were the most notable series of ethical teachers in the ancient world and the fountainhead of the noblest moral qualities in the Hebrew faith, but the great prophetic writers were comprehended within four centuries, and not only the legal but the sacrificial system preceded, underlay, and outlived them all.

The Christology being developed today in Africa, Latin America and Asia is likely to promote as heated arguments as any that shook the Church in the ancient world.

It was a long and sometimes terrible conflict, occasionally exacting a fearful price in martyrs» blood, but it was, by any just estimate, a victory: the temples of Zeus and Isis alike were finally deserted, both the paean and the dithyramb ceased to be sung, altars were bereft of their sacrifices, the sibyls fell silent, and ultimately all the glory, nobility, and cruelty of the ancient world lay supine at the feet of Christ the conqueror.

The impression we receive from the gospels, particularly the earlier ones, is that the practices commonly regarded as religious by the ancient world are never more than incidental to what He had to say.