Sentences with phrase «by our ancestors for»

It has been practiced by our ancestors for thousands of years and yet these days they seem to be obsolete.

These foods, though nauseating to most of pop culture, have been eaten by our ancestors for well over hundreds of years.

Every breeder wants to know what genes are carried by each ancestor for health and performance.

Not exact matches

I don't understand why anyone would be offended by someone praying for the souls of their dead ancestors, whatever religion you happen to be, if you don't believe in God it isn't like it hurts anything, if you beleive in a different God, again it isn't like it hurts anything...

There is plenty of evidence for evolution (althought we didn't come «from apes,» but from a common ancestor with apes) and literally no evidence that we were created as is by a deity.

The wholesale posthumous filing of baptism papers for thousands of holocaust victims and other ancestors by people of the Mormon faith is in violation of a 1995 agreement.

Jura Nanuk, founder & President of Central - European Religious Freedom Inst.itute, wrote the minister an open letter in which she stated: «Did it ever occur to you that instead of pretending to be a victim due to your hurt feelings you might show some compassion for people who were taken to the brink of extinction by your ancestors?

For a while any apparent inconsistencies in divine justice could be explained by making reference to miscreant ancestors.

IF Bishop Eddie Long's ancestors had not been dragged out of Africa brought to the US as slaves, had their families pulled apart by white men treating them as animals and using them for breeding and labor to get rich, none of this would have ever happened.

Often people insist that they as individuals have no responsibility for the sins committed by their ancestors or their nations.

Future generations are punished for something done by their ancestors.

In his essay «The Golden Rule in the Light of New Insight,» Harvard psychoanalyst Erik Erikson comments: «systematic students of ethics often indicate a certain disdain for this all - too - primitive ancestor of more logical principles; and Bernard Shaw found the rule an easy target: don't do to another what you would like to be done by, he warned, because his tastes may differ from yours» (Insight and Responsibility [Norton, 1964], p. 226).

Peter Williamson, without perhaps meaning to do so, puts his finger on my central question, one that can not be solved for Catholic Christians solely by historical research: What does it mean for Messianic Jews, Jewish Christians, «to be faithful to the covenant that God made with their ancestors»?

In other words, we are held responsible by your sky - god for things our ancestors did.

The opposite tack, taken by many moderns, is that each succeeding generation is ever so much more enlightened than its predecessors and can dispense with what passed for wisdom among the ancestors.

But for Native Americans who cleave to rituals passed on by their ancestors, the trial of self - help guru James Arthur Ray mattered.

He's not mean, He is just and gives people what they want And no, he is all powerful, if He could do it, then he wouldn't be all powerful And again no, he made Adam and Eve (sustained them too) and all our other ancestors thus, no, God gave you life And no, He is constant and reliable and is continually backed up by history and science And no, you're not paying for them, Jesus Christ died and paid for your sins and mine.

The ancestors of the September document are the Defense Policy Guidance paper of 1992, prepared in the Department of Defense under then Secretary Richard Cheney, and «Rebuilding America's Defenses; Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century,» issued in September 2000 by the Project for the New American Century.

Mormons believe that they may be baptized by proxy for deceased ancestors who never had that opportunity.

For Christians, the story is heightened by the knowledge that Ruth and Boaz are the ancestors of Christ's foster - father, Joseph, by scriptural revelation and of His mother, Mary, by tradition.

Indeed, it has been supposed by some that the teraphim, household gods, (Genesis 35:4; 31:19; 30 - 35; I Samuel 15:23; 19:13, 16; II Kings 23:24) were originally images of ancestors; that they were honored as such and were part of the apparatus of popular religion; (Hosea 3:4) that mortuary customs which the prophetic school later condemned grew up around them; (Cf. Deuteronomy 26:13 - 14) that the right of performing the necessary ceremonies for one's ancestors devolved upon a son and that this fact underlay both the sense of tragedy in being sonless and the practices of levirate marriage and of adoption to avoid such disaster; (Cf. Genesis 15:2 - 3; 30:3 - 8; Deuteronomy 25:5 - 10) and that this set of ideas and customs was an integral part of the whole clan organization of early Israel.

Because for almost 13 thousand years this land was dominated and cultivated by native Americans, who took much, much better care of the land than our European ancestors (and us) did.

The U.S. was founded on God's word by our ancestors, but know most of our culture acts like its all crap and were «too cool for religion» in the end when i'm before my Mighty, All - powerful God, after my earthly body has died and rotting I know for sure he'll say to us all who were faithful «Well done my good and faithful servant.»

Any way Ali some times I think that our Arab ancestors were dead wrong for their treason and revolt against the Ottoman empire... after all since that era we Arabs and Muslims were used and abused by the stronger nations that came after it till date...!!

Sunday Schools for the nurture of children and youth were extensively employed, especially by the churches which appealed to the older American stock those whose ancestors had come to the Thirteen Colonies before independence.

I marveled at a chart that showed a diagram of the tree of life, where relationships between different mammalian species were figured out solely by comparison of their DNA sequences, providing powerful support for Darwin's idea of descent from a common ancestor with natural selection operating on randomly occurring variations.

We applaud those Christians who reject this teaching of contempt, and we do not blame them for the sins committed by their ancestors.

Heck, even his ancestor King David danced in the streets with his gonads exposed, and when his wife scolded him for doing so * she * was reprimanded by God by being made infertile.

In this regard, they were encouraged by the words of Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: «Our quarreling ancestors were in reality much closer to each other when in all their disputes they still knew that they could only be servants of one truth which must be acknowledged as being as great and as pure as it has been intended for us by God.»

Before he became pope, Benedict wrote that «our quarrelling ancestors were in reality much closer to each other when in all their disputes they still knew that they could only be servants of one truth which must be acknowledged as being as great and as pure as it has been intended for us by God.»

An argument could be made that the old puritan was too generous, thinking that God had killed his son for a thought crime rather than for a crime committed by ancestors who lived millennia ago.

Here one finds the dull report of the census - taker, the uninspired but minute directions for the performance of the cult, stories of man's beginnings and that of many of the common experiences of his life, such as language, relationship of races, why the rainbow; colorful stories, of the might and prowess of ancient ancestors of the race, riddles, puns, fables, prayers, songs that have become almost the universal songs of the human race, the history of the rise and fall of dynasties, the preaching of reformers and prophets, the questioning of it all by men grown weary of the struggle, proverbial sayings of great wisdom; the dreams of conquest both of earth and heaven.

Bottomline, there are thousands and thousands of Ethiopian Jews and they've been in Ethiopia for as long as anyone can remember and, in fact, many of them grow up not knowing about the existence of very very light skinned Jews, (such as myself, of the Jews who fled to Northern Europe at the great dispersion after the destruction of the temple, and after thousands of years living in the frigid north, with low levels of sun, and exposure to the sun, our skin slowly became lighter and lighter, hence I am considered «White», but it simply means my ancestors gravitated northward to the land of little sun, and Ethiopian Jews, and of course South African and West African Jews (identified positively by DNA) have much darker skin, even to that of very very deep velvet Black...) Black is beautiful!

For generations, Tanduay has thrived by continuing the heritage of our ancestors.

In fact, anthropologists now know that for our ancestors, the greatest danger faced by infants was being abandoned to die by a mother who didn't have the resources to care for another child.

All told, the choice to identify with ancestors from Scotland may well be linked to a clear — if sometimes slightly tenuous — ethnic identity, supported by traditions, symbols, art and a «club» of easily identified members around the world for many people (Carr and Landa 1983).

It seems rather unfair to blame our medieval ancestors for something that pre-dates them by a few thousand years, and religion doesn't have a patent on violence and intolerance.

Even the stuff that some might be tempted to write off as ancient history is very much present for some: a 2010 statement by the Alliances des patriotes pour un Congo libre et souverain (APCLS — another armed group, this time from Masisi) declares, «We, the indigenous Congolese from Masisi, Rutshuru, and Walikale in North Kivu province, denounce the Machiavellian plan to exterminate [the people] in the land of their ancestors».

«As the sons and daughters of the slaves, let us give life to our dead ancestors by speaking in a loud voice that says, «I have searched for you and I have found you.

He said kingship appointment is not an ordinary one but being permitted by yoruba culture and tradition as the king rules on behalf of the gods and is therefore accountable not just to men but to the gods as well for good governance and sustenance of the legacies of his ancestors.

A peer whose seat in the Lords was handed down by his ancestors complained today that the Upper Chamber is a «dumping ground» for former MPs.

Resistance could mean resurrecting the peanut ancestors» drought tolerance; or it could be a plant with a knack for repelling bugs; or it could be found by hacking the plant's immune system through mechanisms scientists are just beginning to understand.

In a subsequent study, Orians and Heerwagen applied their evolutionary perspective to 35 paintings of sunsets, by such artists as Frederick Church and Martin Johnson Heade, on the theory that sunset would have been fraught with tension for our ancestors.

These include aromas produced by plants, a logical evolutionary advantage for our ancestors seeking fruits.

For the most part, they maintained the rural lifestyle followed by their ancestors.

According to Kenneth J. McNamara, they were probably the first objects collected for purely aesthetic reasons by ancestors to Homo sapiens, and provide a tangible record of an early and enduring obsession.

The genetic data recovered by the research team, led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the University of Tübingen, provides a timeline for a proposed hominin migration out of Africa that occurred after the ancestors of Neanderthals arrived in Europe by a lineage more closely related to modern humans.

To test this hypothesis, an international team led by evolutionary biologist Philipp Khaitovich of the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences in China and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, set out to see how many brain - related genes implicated in schizophrenia underwent positive natural selection since humans and chimpanzees diverged from a common ancestor between 5 million and 7 million years ago.

To put it another way, the Goyet individual's descendants were pushed into the Iberian peninsula by the expanding wave of Gravettians — and after clinging on there for thousands of years they expanded again to occupy the lands of their ancestors, carrying the new Magdalenian culture with them.

They point out that our minds, like our bodies, have been shaped by evolution: we have inherited ways of thinking from those of our ancestors whose mental tools were best adapted for survival and reproduction.