Sentences with phrase «ancients is really»

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Yoga is a practice that is thousands of years old, but it wasn't designed to make you look good in a tank top (ancient Indians didn't really care about that).

From novel scheduling systems, to exhortations to invest in health, and even spiritual reminders that «work - life balance» is really a modern spin on the ancient and fundamentally difficult question of what constitutes a life well lived, you can spend hours upon hours neither working nor living but simply reading through posts and columns on the topic.

It's really entertaining to watch the tortuous mental twists and turns and dodges that John will make to avoid acknowledging that his delusion is just that, merely another ancient superstition among many, with no support in evidence for its claims.

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.

I have heard many different theologians debate whether the behemoth was a crocodile or a hippo and some say it refered to a dino of some kind, none had any more proof than conjecturing about what the ancient hebrew words to describe it really meant.

she may have prayed to know if the Book of Mormon is really a book of scripture a record written by ancient Prophets just like the Bible was.

So, you see, there are many, many other explanations for a really big wooden boat to have been built by ancient people, and some that don't involve any ancient myths whatsoever, let alone one about a god who decided to destroy mankind which happens to be a pretty common theme throughout religion.

But lay involvement in papal selection really is an ancient practice.

The Chinese built gigantic wooden boats, so it is not really impossible that a really huge wooden boat could not have been built by ancient people without divine guidance.

So a really huge wooden boat built by ancient people using only their own wits isn't impossible.

Realizing its potential anthropological significance, Kennedy turned the bone over to experts at the Smithsonian Museum and the University of Florida, who have now been able to confirm that this really is authentically ancient, and not just a clever forgery (making counterfeit mammoth engravings was a big thing in the 19th century, for whatever reason).

When it's plain as day that protestants, catholics, etc. don't live any better lives than those that don't believe in ancient myths, then what really is the reason Americans won't vote for a non-believer?

you really think ancient people in the middle east were describing underwater volcanoes?

Even if those who are to come from all directions to put to shame Jesus» fellow - countrymen are really Gentiles and not Jews of the dispersion, the words none the less naively assert that the chosen people and its heroes hold the central place in the Kingdom of God; afterward the Gentiles would join them, according to ancient prophecy.

If they are true believers and not riding some particular hobby horse they must surely say that everything has remained the same that is really necessary for life as well as for death: the crucified and risen Christ, his grace, baptism, the true body and blood of the Lord in the Eucharist, the forgiveness of sins, the expectation of eternal life, the ancient dogma binding on all, the one commandment of the love of God and our neighbour.

WASP, all religions are based on ancient mythologies, but there really are Christians and other religions.

Finally, if one goes by texts and not anecdotes, the UCC Constitution and Statement of Faith represent who we really claim corporately to be, not to mention the seven recent volumes of The Living Theological Heritage of the United Church of Christ, tracing our lineage from the ancient creeds forward.

observer Unless you are a scholar of the ancient languages you really don't know what the Bible does or does not say.

Or that our translation of the word «green» from the ancient text is flawed and it really meant blue...

The immediate implication of this, which is really my second statement in shorthand form, is that the Bible is thus a human product, namely, the response of two ancient communities to their experience of the Sacred.

You really have to wonder about people who think ancient Middle Eastern fairy tales are real.

Thus, Hartshorne is quite wrong in saying that, «Only the ancient Jews and some of the ancient Greeks were nearly free from this flight from what, for all we really know, is the human condition» (ARP 32).

If you don't believe the events in the Gospels really happened, you should have better reasons than the (questionable) idea that since the Gospels contain parallels to ancient myths, the Gospels must also be myths.

If anyone will take the trouble to compare the moral teaching of, say, the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Hindus, Chinese, Greeks and Romans, what will really strike him will be how very like they are to each other and to our own.

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.

If he and Voltaire and all the other literary «smugglers» of the same grand, ancient truth are wrong, which I doubt, if there really is no afterlife, nothing, zero, zilch, at least there'll be no more intolerable suffering amond humans or among the sentient creatures we call «beasts.»

bible... ancient myth and folklore that has been changed very much over centuries... people really need to move past it and into the 21st century

We like to think that we're quite close to the ancient world, that they were really just like us — the truth is, I'm afraid that they really weren't.

And even the truths in it are from ancient languages that have long ago lost their meaning??? If you get strength from the Bible that's really great, but understand that one size does not fit all, and therefor there is indeed a need for a decoder ring when speaking «religious»..

Q: While submersing yourself in ancient Isrealite culture might benefit your hermeneutics, are you really advocating that they had it right then and we have it wrong now?

As for how we arc to use these resources for seeking and finding God, I imagine Julian saying something like this: Get firmly in your mind that each of these three really does correspond to one of the three persons of the Trinity — truth, to God the Father; wisdom, the ancient Sophia, to the second person, who is God our Mother; and love to the Holy Spirit.

-- While submersing yourself in ancient Isrealite culture might benefit your hermeneutics, are you really advocating that they had it right then and we have it wrong now?

I am really surprised by the Festival Tithe — it was a lovely provision for families and unique among the ancient nations.

But sometimes symbols point to things that really happened and Christianity points to something that is more than just one of many ancient belief systems.

On a more sophisticated level, liberal Protestantism refreshed weary spirits with the announcement that all those ancient obscurities in the Bible were really intended to say no more than that we should love, forgive, be charitable, promote justice, and usher in the brotherhood of man under the fatherhood of God.

So all that scholars really have to go on is the text itself — a wild ride on a rickety, ancient, circular - reasoning roller - coaster with little external data to anchor our knowledge of anything.

When we really examine this ancient problem, and we examine the life of the church today, it is like looking in a mirror.

There was widespread discussion as to who Jesus really was, and some said, «A prophet, like one of the prophets of old» or «one of the ancient prophets» who had risen from the dead (Mark 6:15; Luke 9:8).

To most of the Ancient Greeks, the criterion for truth was logical coherence, not correspondence to facts, and many, like Plato, were quite able to doubt empirical reality when it conflicted with a really good logical theory.

I really don't care what the bible says about it because, with all due respect to the bible (and I mean that sincerely)... it is an ancient collection of documents composed from an ancient mentality in which hell made perfect sense.

And so it goes with the whole story and all the texts that Christians claim as evidence that are not really evidence at all, even if one were to actually have faith in ancient writings.

Quantum Mechanics is WAY weirder and more complex than, say, evolution (though I like how you threw the big bang in there — separate theories, dude), but you won't really hear any religious nuts complaining about the exact same process that gives us QM because it doesn't conflict with their ancient mythology.

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Girard shows how this theme is found everywhere in ancient mythology and religious writings, but how only the Hebrew Scriptures begin to reveal that the third party, upon whom blame was laid for the original violence, was really an innocent scapegoat.

Attacks like this one just make it clear how stuck in the ancient past the Vatican really is.

As the millennium turns, this Christmastide will be another blessed opportunity for bearing witness unashamedly to the church's ancient faith that very God of very God really happened here.

Again it raises the question of who these people really were, and when and how they became involved in the life of the ancient Near East.

Do you really think there's space here to go through all the outdated statements in every ancient scripture ever written?

I'm really tired of this ancient concept of God.

A guy with an AK 4 - 7 Killed some kids who were half of eleven When the arguments started America parted But when we ask god why god says, uh, well, uh, it's really hard to figure out terms like, well, your whole post, which while yelled, is really rather confusing and doesn't seem to say a lot and needs to be interpreted, just like any ancient scripture.