Sentences with phrase «dead ancestors»

A large number of illiterate and semi-educated — and some of the educated — Muslims are also great believers in prayers for the souls of dead ancestors.

A standard prayer addressed to dead ancestors reads: «We who are here, whatever we commit, please reveal the same to us in a dream.

Many ancestral «religions» (a relatively new contrived word) have not gods, just spirits of dead ancestors or places or things.

But proving the hypothesis is difficult, or even impossible, since it would ideally involve running neurological tests on our long - dead ancestors.

If it's not your dead ancestor's thing, it's not their thing (assuming the proxy baptism has validity).

Including sorcery and such to their dead ancestors.

For example, a common Mormon practice is baptism for dead ancestors, which is based on a particular interpretation of 1 Cor 15:29.

I belong to the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints and this is why we practice baptizing a proxy (someone living) for dead ancestors.

They practice «baptism for the dead» by which you can be baptized for a dead ancestor in order to give him or her the opportunity to spend eternity with God.

The reason I share the story is it got me thinkin» about perception.When people say they believe someone (God, Jesus, Spirit)... a dead ancestor) is telling, talking, urging or even compelling them to do or think about something in their life, can we be sure it's not, like my friend, coming from within?

By going inside those bones and siphoning DNA — the genetic essence of long - dead ancestors — scientists can now use sequencing technology to make exact measurements of the similarities between groups.

Steven Spielberg's dinosaurs in Jurassic Park may look authentic, but the sounds they make would not have been uttered by their long - dead ancestors, says a Japanese researcher.

He says the research team chose the two species because they are among the most primitive forms of fish, so they can provide more clues about the bodies of their long - dead ancestors.

His family can no longer see him, but Miguel can now see all of his dead ancestors — who look like fantastically decorative skeletons — crossing over a bright bridge made of marigold flower petals.

Around three thousand years ago, the Shang kings turned to their dead ancestors for help at times like these.

When not writing, she haunts cemeteries and dusty archives in search of long - dead ancestors and pursues her most important work - in - progress, her daughter.

Track down the necessary items to free the dead ancestor of Cardinal House, a shaman, and many other characters.

Ancestry spokesman Dallin Hatch said this week that the site has no birth records from the state of Florida, and said the database is designed to help people find long - dead ancestors, not people who had been living in 2018.