Sentences with phrase «built as a temple»

Not to be missed during your visit to Rome is a tour of the magnificent Pantheon — originally designed and built as a temple dedicated to the Roman Gods by Marco Vipsanio Agrippa in 27BC — still standing and still awesome it is a favourite site amongst Romans and is a must see.

Built as a temple to the Gods in 120AD, the clever design includes a single light source flowing through the central oculus that was used to measure time with the aid of an internal sundial.

Not exact matches

Thus, the Jerusalem temple (while revered for who built it and why) was also seen as being run by Roman Quislings, and the Sadducees were not trusted.

The temple in Salt Lake City was built on the money from stolen from the massacres on emmigrant trains — Mormons dressed up as Indians, blamed the Indians for the Massacre as they did at Mountain Meadow and still do TODAY.

After all, it is argued, the Romans themselves did not appear to take it seriously (Vespasian's famous deathbed joke, «I think I am becoming a god» seems to indicate as much): it could only be believed by those who were either insane, such as Caligula, who went so far as to sacrifice to himself daily and made his beloved horse a high priest of his cult, or irredeemably barbarian and by implication, stupid, such as the Britons of Colchester who built an enormous temple to the Divine Claudius.

Given the «miracle» Nicaragua already is and could be — a Latin American nation where the hungry are being fed, the sick are being healed and the homeless are finding homes, where schools and parks are being built and faith is being put into practice as well as proclaimed in temples — it is hard to deny the reality expressed in a common slogan one hears there: «There is no contradiction between Christianity and the revolution.»

People look at this from the stand point of NOW... the early religious building were built to overwhelm and scare people so as to control them... early religious structure were not for the people to ENTER... they were places where the priest visited to SERVE THE GODS THAT LIVE OR VISITED THERE... AND GET MESSAGES FROM THE SECRET UNSEEN GODS to convey to the people... this goes back even before the great Egyptian temples and gods... way way back into prehistory.

Ukip's acting leader has revealed he wouldn't want to personally see any new mosques built in the UK as «Islam doesn't allow a Christian church or a Sikh temple to be built in its heartland, because it's in the Koran».

The author of II Samuel presented the project of building a temple for Yahweh as an extension of David's own upward mobility.

17 ff., clearly had pointed significance in Israel after the establishment of Jerusalem as the capital by David and the building of Solomon's temple (Salem, v. 18, = Jerusalem; Melchizedek is not only king, but «priest of the God most high» to whom Abraham gives «a tenth of everything») The later Temple tax (tithe = tenth) is here given ultimate precedent and example in Abraham.

The prophet Isaiah, writing about 700 b.c., predicts Cyrus by name as the king who will say to Jerusalem that it shall be built and that the temple foundation shall be laid.

Beautiful buildings in which to worship are not meant as gifts to the world but as offerings to God; offering not the mediocre but only the best, it is a material offering, just as we try to offer the best body (which is called by Him His temple) to Him, the difference being that He builds up in us the best temple in which to reside, Could more people have been fed with the money spent on building a church or a cathedral; maybe.

The first thing they did whenever they wished to stop at a particular place, was to erect a tabernacle or temple to their false god for the duration of the time they expected to stay there, and they built this temple in the middle of the site on which they had established themselves, the ark being placed upon an altar such as is used in a church, for the idol wished to imitate our religion in many ways, as we shall afterwards show.10

The kings of ancient Babylon built temples to their moon god in the form of stepped pyramids known as ziggaruts.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, better known as the Mormon church, started its semi-annual conference this weekend by announcing it will build five new temples around the world.

And, yes the sacrifices were suspended, stopped, YHWH will not accept them again until the new temples are built, as said in Daniel 12:11, in Malachi 1:6 - 1, and in Ezekiel 40 - 46, also in Jeremiah 31-37-40.

We use God's biblical instructions on how to the build the temple as both guidelines and justifications for building massive and expensive church buildings.

Sometimes such places have been chosen for temple and church building sites — as, for instance, the oldest Japanese shrine, Ise; or Mont St. Michel in France; or Delphi in Greece.

as long as you do nt turn your kids into super religious zealot nazi's «cough» most of the homeschooled chirstians «cough» no real problem with religion aside from that tiny part in the old testimant about shunning and killing those who are differnt from ya i belive it was somewhere round the part in solomans temple having just been built and the whole buring of a offering at the temple and taking parts from it or something or other that was stolen from pagen's after the one of the so called holy crusades aka the earliest recorded holocausts of sentiant man

I have always heard the explanation that just as the tithe in the Old Testament was to be given to be used by the priests for their personal use and to maintain the temple, the tithe today should therefore be used pay the pastoral staff and to build and maintain the building (s) and property.

The big controversy right now is that a lot of orthodox jews want to build the temple now, as a way of calling the messiah to them, rather than waiting with their thumbs up their ass.

I guess for Jews to consider Jesus as their messiah, this temple should have been built by now.

But the lady who introduced herself as the mother of the true God was now appearing among them and asking that a temple be built on this sacred site.

- God's instructions for building the tent of meeting, the temple - Jesus» vision for the Kingdom of Heaven (as mentioned above)

If the «triumphal entry» looks like a march on Washington or Rome, the cleansing of the temple looks very much like an occupation of the administration building and a sit - in, such as marked the turbulent sixties.

Your thoughts on a «peace agreement and a temple being built are just as nutty as the guy that said the world will end on the 21st.

Only in this way will God's temple in the world rise up, not as a temple built with human hands, but as a the people of God who follow Jesus into the world to love and serve whomever we meet.

This was known as a «whitening of New England,» as churches, commercial buildings, and dwellings reflected the white marble facades of ancient Greek temples.

But even then, at the apex of his hubris, he suborned the cream of Business Nigeria, extorted «donations» as sitting president and Oil minister, and with the proceeds, built himself a self - indicting temple of corruption, in the so - called Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library!

Guessing that the church was built with the same orientation as the temple it replaced, he measured the distance between the center line of the church and the stones to the south.

King Herod the Great, infamous in the New Testament for ordering the slaughter of infants, built the monumental temple and other grandiosities in the city of Caesarea, Israel, as a sign of his fidelity to Rome — but the temple had been lost until now.

University of Toronto archaeologist Timothy Harrison and colleagues are excavating a temple in the Tell Tayinat region of Turkey, built around 800 B.C. Though this time was thought to be a dark age when trade between Greece and the Middle East nearly ground to a halt, Harrison says that his finds — including ivory carvings, precious metal foils, and pottery — are a clear indication of cultural and economic exchange among cultures such as the Hittites, Aegeans, and Semites.

However, there are some objections to the theory that it was a Mithraic temple as it is in a necropolis, an uncommon site for buildings used for this cult which were more often found in domestic, urban or rural environments.

According to the authors, after its period as a Mithraic temple, the building was renovated three times, giving it new functions more in line with the functions of a necropolis.

«In some stages, it was used for burial purposes, but its shape and an archaeoastronomical analysis suggest that it was originally designed and built to contain a Mithraeum [temple to Mithras],» as explained by Inmaculada Carrasco, one of the authors of the study.

In addition to the monumental gate, an impressive fortification wall was discovered, as well as various building in its vicinity, such as a temple and an iron production facility.

It is named after the magnificent Buddhist temple in Java which was built in the 9th century as a

How about the history classroom, where instead of listening to a teacher lecture about ancient Athens, students take a virtual tour and then use 3 - D design software like SketchUp to build a simple model of a Greek temple as a way to internalize classical principles such as balance?

Taxpayer money should not be spent building grandiose temples when the functional equivalent would serve just as well.

The house itself was built in 1995, and originally was used as a Hari Krishna temple.

On this courtyard, there are main temple building set on it include Meru with five storey roof top, the media to worship Segara God or Baruna God as a ruler of the ocean.

Away from the beaches, holidaymakers will also enjoy Sri Lanka's many temples, palaces, plantations and grandiose colonial buildings, as well as its characteristically spicy cuisine.

Tanah Lot Temple common called sea temple as it located at sea shore and was built around 16 century by Hindu priest who was coming from Java Island during his holy journey called Thirta Yatra for spreading Hindu teaching.

Based on the environmental condition, the structure of Tanah Lot Temple is built on the rock plateau irregular edges that consist of one plain / courtyard as main temple area.

This temple was built in 16th century by the Javanese priest Danghyang Nirartha who built many temple near the sea around the island such as Rambut Siwi Temple in west of Bali, Pulaki Temple and Ponjok Batu Temple in North of Bali.

Built in 1921 as a temple and later transformed into a theater, the building is now a LEED platinum hotel, with locally - sourced construction materials, a geothermal heating system and even organic and fair - trade items served in the on - site café.

This immense complex includes several buildings including temples, shrines, a museum, as well as the former residence of the Siamese royal family (inhabited from the 18th century until 1925).

Five Mayan buildings have been found so far, one of which may be the true temple of the goddess Ixchel as well as more than 100 pieces of obsidian, jade, skeletons and human skulls.

A recording of chanting reverberated throughout the building and the mood inside as we made our way to the covered temple was solemn and reverential.

In Kyoto, visit Nijo Castle, built in 1603 as the shogun's official residence; the Temple of the Gold Pavilion, a Buddhist temple overlooking a large pond and covered in beautiful gold leaf; and the Pure Water Temple, founded in 780 AD on the site of a waterfall.