Sentences with phrase «as ancient people»

«No responsible doctrine of inspiration can deny that the biblical authors were thoroughly encultured, ancient people, who spoke as ancient people.

The Israelites wrote as ancient people, and their argument for why Yahweh is above all the others gods (see, for example, Psalm 95) only worked because of the shared mythic categories between Israel and her neighbors.»

Not exact matches

From water - and snow - resistant parkas made from skins worn by hunters in polar regions to garments fabricated using woven straw, such as the ancient Japanese mino, people have long sought ways to remain dry while outside in wet weather.

Christianity is every bit as ridiculous as the ancient Egyptian god Ra pulling the sun across the sky in his golden chariot, and perhaps finally enough people are waking up to that simple truth.

Maybe Jesus and Muhammad existed as people in ancient cultures but not in any way as divine beings or messengers or sons of someone's God.

The people of the lost tribes of Israel were of the same hues as the ancient Egyptians.

Two thousand years later, the vast majority of the world's population has disregarded the belief that dragons roam the sea, Zeus, Poseidon, and most other ancient gods (as these people thousands of years ago believed), yet the world inexplicably still clings to the thousands - year - old myths of God and Jesus.

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 peoplAs 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 peoplas the ancients lived, by re-enacting practices found in the Bible, they do a great disservice to God's Word and His people.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers but there is heaven and afterlife for the souls or the personalities that lived behind those computer but not the actual hardware of the computer... after all if you had the soul you can fix it to any more developed hardware that is suitable to living heaven or hell... Though all people hated dark and favored light for it... but as seems that Mr.Stephen Hawking is favoring the Dark over the Light which he named as «Fairy Tales» or «Tales of the Ancient»...!

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).

Despite its tiny size, Israel prevailed in these wars, preventing its people from being uprooted again, as they had been in ancient times.

Therefore a reasonable person rightly grasp that Zeus was just a figment of the ancient Greeks imagination, a way to salve their conscience as to how they perceived the «world» came into existence.

Sameth opines that in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, «well - expressed gender fluidity was the mark of a civilized person,» and «the gods were thought of as gender - fluid.»

It is because of this ancient and false text that thousands of people suffer daily, because of the mass delusion known as religion.

Secondly as stated further up the thread, the biblical account of creation was to show the authority of God to an ancient people.

Our Lord is the fulfilment of ancient typology, and as a truly divine person.

Since the stories of the Bible remain so central to who we are as a culture, even today (and even for those who dismiss it), it seems entirely fitting that we should be equally interested in the ancient people who composed them.

In light of the above, we need to get past this tendency to identify the West with ancient Israel as the people of God.

This is to affirm that, while the institution of Israelite prophetism developed relatively slowly and attained maturity relatively late, the essence of the prophetic was present from the Mosaic era, inherent in the faith of ancient Israel from her formation as a people out of Egyptian slavery.

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.

Given that we are rich when the world is poor, that we cling to our nuclear arms as if world extermination were a noble risk, destroy ancient forests, gouge the landscape, pollute the soil, water and air, that we copulate and abort with unrestrained abandon — how then are we to interpret Jesus» words, «It is what comes out of a person that defiles,» so as to come up smelling like roses?

In the ancient debates, scientists and philosophers used criteria such as reaction to stimuli, modes of nutrition, and origin of motion to determine when the embryo receives a soul and can be considered a person.

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.

One argument which has been attempted against its historicity has been that there are ancient accounts of floods to be found among other peoples; however, rather than discounting the reality of the Flood I view this as corroborative.

It's always fascinating that people will scoff at 800 pages of ancient manuscripts now called the Bible, but as soon as any scrap of ancient manuscript comes along that presents a different story, that scrap is revered as more significant than the 800 pages.

For all of their idiosyncratic talk of plant and animal souls, the ancients at least would have recognized a twelve - week - old baby moving in his mother's womb as a person with a soul.

The fact is that the Talmud teaches that of all the ancient Near Eastern peoples, only the Jews survived the mass deportations conducted by the Assyrians before the destruction of the First Temple in 586 b.c.e. Hence, there are no real Amalekites to be found any more, just as there are no real Moabites or Ammonites to be found any more.

It comes as no surprise that ancient men were aware of their geography and their history, so it's no surprise when ancient cities and people are shown to have existed.

Although Whitehead's Category of the Ultimate is meant to lessen the distance, so to speak, between actual occasions and societies of actual occasions, the application of Whitehead's metaphysics to persons seems troublesome; the ancient metaphysical problem of appearance and reality seems to lurk in the background, for the philosopher who wishes to identify res vera in the system soon finds herself perplexed, asking if the subjects of experience are actual occasions, societies of occasions, or sentient beings, such as persons and animals.1

However, if we do not assume the Greek idea of a temporary separation of body and soul, then we can think of the resurrection as affecting the whole person, all at once — as the ancient Jews thought of it.

The knowledge we have today can't be compared to ancient harmful and ignorant myths, although I admit that being ignorant must feel very comfortable for some and I think people are free and have the right to be stupid, but no one has the right to make it sound as though their personal nonsense is the universal and inflexible truth.

The Records of Ancient Matters is then the oldest extant book of the Japanese people — indeed, according to W. G. Aston, it is the first book written in any Turanian tongue.3 Chamberlain regards it as the most important book in all the mass of Japanese literature.

It is impossible for that ancient culture and that ancient time to be recreated and it is impossible for us to be that ancient people or to live as did that ancient people.

Note too that the ancient Greeks were, like the English, sea - going people, aware of the wide world so far as was then possible.

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

So it seems like hero worship, ancient authority and much more are tempting items people keep using even as their religion supposedly changes or disappears.

The centuries - long drama of the religious journey of the people of Israel, as it is recorded in the Hebrew Bible, was a gigantic struggle with the immensely powerful «other» of the religious world of the ancient Near East.

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.

A more ancient view, still apparent at many points in the Old Testament, had been that righteousness was rewarded by prosperity and long life in this world, and misfortune was a punishment for sin; but as Israel suffered more and more adversity, and the most faithful individuals and groups were the most oppressed and afflicted, it came to be felt that the humble, the meek, the devout, the poor were the righteous people of God, and the mighty and prosperous were the proud, wicked oppressors.

It is as ancient as the Christian concern for wholeness in persons.

The man / men who got their stories turned into the Jesus myth were probably ancient versions of such modern people as David Koresh, Jim Jones, Charles Manson, L. Ron Hubbard, Joseph Smith, etc..

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.

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.

Hermann Gunkel, in a sense the unique father of us all in modern biblical scholarship, despite his insistence on saga's supervision of the Elijah narratives as we receive them, nevertheless affirms on the one hand Elijah's kinship with the greatest of all ministers of ancient Israel, Moses, in their mutual contention with their own people; and, on the other hand, Elijah's legitimate and immediate relationship to the great prophets who follow him and who, essentially, continue the work he began.

But in ancient times as well as in the Middle Ages people were aware of the need of solitude and had respect for what it signifies.

Ancient scrolls and bits and pieces of some books and some verses yes, but there's no such thing as an original intact Bible Most intelligent people realize that.

Again, this understanding as such, although far from universal among ancient peoples, was not peculiar to Israel.

For example, «the fresh and vivid style of Mark» has been explained as the result of Peter's vivid personal recollections — forgetting that people did not usually write that way in ancient times, but far more prosaically, far less romantically; the exploitation of literary personality is a very modern innovation.

Ancient literature, like modern fairy tales, is full of narratives in which gods and other supernatural beings disguise themselves as human beings, sometimes as the lowest of the low, and roam throughout the world to see how people will treat them.

Only by its incarnation in repeatedly reinterpreted ancient symbolism, by which the word is continually reduced to essentials, can the word speak to the heart as well as to the intelligence and the will — in short, to the whole person.»