Sentences with phrase «centuries people believed»

For centuries people believed that Aristotle was right when he said that the heavier an object, the faster it would fall to earth.

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As a result, many people believe Carson is a flat - out mass murderer - not a hero who beautifully blended care for human health and nonhuman nature in one of the most important and challenging books of the 20th century.

Also, after the technology bubble that occurred at the turn of the 21st century - one of the biggest bubbles of all time - people believed that another echo bubble was on the way.

I can not believe the ignorance and bias on this with Statistics Canada - I mean come on people lets get with the times - you are operating a Statistical agency like we are living in the 1950's - this is indeed the 21st century - income polarization is a massive issue, and to report on income like the manner that this article did is just out right garbage!!

In fact, the Tanach is very clear to the Jews that the only covenant they have (and will ever have) is the one pounded out between G - d and the Jews on Mt. Sinai (which, if you read the fine print AND the NT is allowed to be understood / interpreted by designated leaders in the Jewish society; Jesus believed those people to be the Pharisees and told his JEWISH followers to adhere to Pharisee teachings... the Pharisees were the honorable, compassionate end of the theology spectrum in the first century instead of the bad rap they get from a mis - reading of the NT (done generally with no comprehension of Jewish culture or history).

I can't believe people of THIS century are still using it to persecute each other.

If people stopped believing in century old stories (lies), the world would be a safer, happier, and friendlier place.

I believe that man is, by nature, an exile and will never be self - sufficient or complete on this earth; that his chances of happiness and virtue, here, remain more or less constant through the centuries and, generally speaking, are not much affected by the political and economic conditions in which he lives; that the balance of good and ill tends to revert to a norm; that sudden changes of physical condition are usually ill, and are advocated by the wrong people for the wrong reasons; that the intellectual communists of today have personal, irrelevant grounds for their antagonism to society, which they are trying to exploit.

One thing is certain and proven... no matter what creed we utter, create, or claim to believe... more people over the centuries (including the 200 years of NT historians and theologians studies you lean upon) will remember... seek, find, and trust in a risen Jesus (the illiterate peasant carpenter) than will ever know you and I... let alone sing our praises.

I can't believe that in the 21st century people are still believing in sky fairies and sun gods.

Evidence that's genuinely convincing will propagate just like the idea that the earth orbits the sun — at first, almost nobody believed it, but as more and better evidence was found, more and more people changed their minds until now practically everyone agrees that the earth orbits the sun, even though this is diametrically opposed to people's beliefs a few centuries ago.

In the early 16th century, most people believed Earth was the center of the universe.

To bad people like you are willing to believe other famous people from centuries ago are real but not Jesus

You may believe the Gospel of John is made up whole cloth too but it shows that, at the latest in the second century, that Christian understood themselves to be adopted into God's people not by blood by by faith (by faith we are saved through grace is how Paul put it).

In the middle of the last century, the German New Testament scholar Rudolf Bultmann opined that people who had learned to use an electric light switch could no longer believe that God makes things happen.

People believed for many centuries that the world was flat.

So it is that people like Heaven Sent BELIEVE the «word of god» is a book edited in the 17th century from 16th century translations of 8,000 contradictory copies of 4th century scrolls that claim to be copies of LOST letters from the 1st century?

In his zeal to protect indigenous people of the West Indies from Spanish conquistadors, the 16th - century Dominican Bartolomé de Las Casas advocated the importation of African slaves, whom he believed would be treated better than the Indians.

I like this comment you made: > I believe that John, in his Gospel, is trying to get people to see that Jesus is God, and is possibly trying to instill more meaning in the terms «Christ» and «Son of God» than the average person in the first century would have understood or immediately grasped.

Absurd attempts to conflate atheism with despotic dictators eg:» Atheists have tortured and murdered more people in the last 100 years than were killed in all previous centuries» or slightly less inaccurately: «Atheists killed more than 100,000,000 people in the 20th century» The syllogism: — Communist despots ordered or failed to prevent the deaths of millions in the 20th century — Not believing in God is a tenet of communism — Therefore, atheists killed millions in the 20th century deliberately misrepresents atheism.

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

It is believed to have been written on gold plates, whose whereabouts was revealed to Joseph Smith as a very young man, but written and hidden away centuries earlier by Moroni, last remnant of the people who had migrated from the old world to the new.

Today Christendom no longer exists and we are moving towards a world in which the Christian peoples or the peoples that have formerly been Christian will be a minority... We no longer have any solid grounds for believing that the post-Christian era is likely to realize any of the humanitarian utopias in which the idealists of the nineteenth century put their faith.2

Ceramic evidence indicates occupation of the City of David, within present - day Jerusalem, as far back as the Copper Age (c. 4th millennium BCE) with evidence of a permanent settlement during the early Bronze Age (c. 3000 — 2800 BCE) The Execration Texts, which refer to a city called Roshlamem or Rosh - ramen] and the Amarna letters (c. 14th century BCE) may be the earliest mention of the city Some archaeologists, including Kathleen Kenyon, believe Jerusalem] as a city was founded by Northwest Semitic people with organized settlements from around 2600 BCE.

Why, you have the god given right to believe in talking snakes, knowledge and eternal life giving fruit, centuries old people, a flood that required at least a pair of every animal to be stuffed on a boat that was not viable, a tower, god was afraid would reach all the way to heaven, a zombie messiah, unicorns, satyrs, and a leviathan god does battle with.

I, by faith, believe that onlly God knew these things and revield them to Job (and Moses who later wrote the book of Job) How would you account for these people knowing these astronomical facts that were not proved until centuries later?

In the 21st century a person who claims to have conversations with a supernatural being whom they believe is the creator of the universe is supposedely a contender for the job of POTUS?

Why is it than in a modern country like America, so many people switch off all common sense and logic and believe the fairy stories and hateful rhetoric written by this ignorant, desert dwelling goat herder and his ilk over centuries?

The local baals were the sources of agricultural plenty — so wide areas of the people still believed when in the eighth century Hosea thundered against the idea (Hosea 2:5 - 13.)

A century after Einstein cancelled the big bang and 40 years after Geology falsed Darwin's origin of species, People need something to believe in.

But the title of her book, The Sexual Century, suggests that Dr. Person believes this influence to be wholly beneficial.

In the half century following World War I increasing numbers of persons both inside and outside the churches came to believe that their civilization was no longer basically Christian and that Christendom was a fading reality.

St. Irenaeus, 2nd century Bishop of (what is now) Lyons, France, is believed to have said, «The Glory of God is the human person fully alive.»

It did this, they thought, in a fashion which was not in outrageous contradiction to everything else that as persons living in the mid-twentieth century they believed to be true.

This means «equipping the saints» to be twenty - first - century apologists who can (pace Pope Francis) offer compassionate aid to the walking wounded of postmodern society, explain the truths about the human person that the Church believes are essential to a truly human political community, and, if necessary, hold fast to Gospel - based Christian moral convictions even if that means professional or economic distress.

Although my interpretations do not reflect the literal first century meanings at every point, they do represent what I believe Jesus would mean (in the context of his concern for persons) were he speaking in our day.

Despite it being the 21st century, some people still believe that housework and the caring of a baby all falls on mommy.

In the mid-20th century, people believed that using formula was healthier for babies and showed that a family was affluent.

«We are excited to announce this list of New York leaders who have joined Marco's growing team from around the nation and who believe Marco Rubio is the person to lead the United States into a New American Century.

«It is absurd to leave someone in charge of a department whose role is to protect the country from a growing climate crisis who himself believes that «people get very emotional about this subject, and I think we should just accept that the climate has been changing for centuries».

Many believe that «naïve» populations of birds and people in the United States have never been exposed to the virus and are thus more susceptible to it, whereas Europeans have been exposed for centuries, potentially giving them some protection.

First mentioned by Pliny the Elder in the first century as «frog stones,» people believed these small, dull - colored objects were talismans that had all kinds of medicinal and magical value.

MacGregor believes that the high frequency of stroke or «apoplexy» in the 19th century stems from the salt preservation of food, which meant that people ate twice as much salt as they do today.

But city planners believe it is the model for 21st - century American cities in the way it is becoming decentralised — and they are increasingly worried about how to curb people's reliance on their cars.

Today the dodo bird is an icon of extinction and the mammoth a giant of de-extinction prospects, but during the 19th century there were people that believed the dodo bird was a myth and that mammoths would be discovered still alive in the unexplored reaches of America.

The name for this potentially deadly respiratory infection comes from the Italian word for influence; centuries ago, people believed that the influence of the planets made people sick with the disease.

In fact, some scholars believe that before the 19th century, it was common for people to spread a typical eight - hour night of sleep spread out over about 12 hours of darkness, especially during the long nights of winter.

For centuries, people believed that French women used to tie a ribbon around their waist underneath their clothes before meals.

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As idiotic as it may sound, there are still people who believe the Earth to be flat in the 21st Century.