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In his commentary, Asay responds to an even earlier story which may have helped prompt the Seattle times, The New Scrooge, by Paul Collins at Slate.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, earlier this week, BuzzFeed wrote about a practice in which it claims a growing number of businesses are paying Facebook to promote positive news stories from publishers as sponsored posts.

Since surfacing on POPSUGAR earlier in June, the photos — which we first saw in a Redbook story on Yahoo — have gone viral.

Researchers Melanie Green (of UNC, mentioned above as well) and Dr. Philip Mazzocco (OSU) conducted research on that very question, and their results reveal 6 interesting characteristics of persuasive stories, which we can compare to the earlier study.

Earlier this week, Facebook announced Facebook Stories and customizable camera filters, both of which are similar to features offered by Snapchat.

My seven - company First Round portfolio was strong, and I was early to finding Foursquare (which, at the time, was still a good story).

Clarification: An earlier version of this story was not clear on which court case, state or federal, Judge Edward Chen is hearing.

Even if you have an interesting story to tell, most investors won't want to go through the brain damage of doing a «down round,» which creates tension between them and early investors.

(Corrections and clarifications: An earlier version of this story contained a link to the Zello channel for Texas Search and Rescue, which has been removed because it no longer works.)

A short chapter on the following 10 years, among the most volatile since the early»70s, credits Teck with «a classic recovery story which deserves a full chapter in the next edition of Never Rest on Your Ores.»

Correction: An earlier version of this story identified the Committee to Protect California Jobs as a SuperPAC, which it is not.

Many of the early stories about the Al - Aqsa intifada centered on events at the Lutheran - sponsored Augusta Victoria Hospital in Jerusalem, which was occupied by Israeli military forces.

The findings are supported by Bible Society's earlier «Pass it On» report, in which 43 % of eight to fifteen year olds indicated they had never read, seen or heard the story of the Crucifixion of Jesus.

Early stories such as the encounter with Yahweh at the burning bush, where Moses was warned to put off his shoes because the spot was «holy ground,» (Exodus 3:5; cf. Joshua 5:15) reveal the way in which this dread of holy things and places and this need of insulations against their dangerous potency issued in sacred rites and customs.

Which means that if the early church wanted to gain credibility as a movement, they never would have invented stories about a dying and rising Messiah.

Its narratives Contain many echoes of the stories in Mark and some of those which occur in Luke, and the evangelist has modified and added to the earlier traditions (his Gospel is generally agreed to be the latest of the four) in such a way as to make them the vehicle for a great body of deep religious truth.

Islam meaning is «Submission to One God» and that was Abrahams Religion on which all the Prophets before him and after him had followed until «Issa the Son of Mary» then as our Friend»» «gozar»» «mentioned that (God did not need a scapegoat story stolen from earlier fictions)... doesn't that look like a fine line of poetry that summarized the whole situation of the crime that took place against a prophet and messenger of God became a dead sin taker...??

The story of Noah was ripped off of Babylon's Gilgamesh, which was WRITTEN DOWN as early as 2150 BS (see Wikipedia) whereas the Jews only wrote down the OT between 10 and 5 BC.

There's one omission from this early Christian history that I regret, however; the Lectionary omits the twenty - seventh chapter of Acts, which tells the dramatic story of Paul's shipwreck and his brief stay on Malta, where the apostle is miraculously saved from the poisonous grasp of a poisonous viper, and from which he eventually takes another ship to Rome.

Both early Christian apocalyptic and Zealot apocalyptic drew on the openness of this form of world - vision to the new, to make possible a meaningful participation of the believer in the «big story» to which he found that he was contributing as it moved forward to its end.

The most striking instance of the concrete new taken into an apocalyptic story so that it becomes the peripety or surprise in the plot would be the adaptation of the apocalyptic story by the early Christians to the new which they saw in Christ.

An early example of the Golden Rule that reflects the Ancient Egyptian concept of Maat appears in the story of The Eloquent Peasant, which dates to the Middle Kingdom (c. 2040 — 1650 BCE): «Now this is the command: Do to the doer to cause that he do thus to you.»

But here we may reasonably suspect a certain amount of embroidery, the more so since Matthew has also an edifying story about the traitor's remorse and grisly end — a story, by the way, inconsistent with another account of his death which is found in the Acts of the Apostles, not to mention a third divergent account which we know to have been handed down traditionally in the early church.

If the burial story were historical, and it consequently showed that the tomb from which Jesus rose was identifiable, we would expect some further interest to have been taken in it by the early church.

Once we take into account the capacity of the ancient Jewish mind to create a story as a way of expounding and showing the relevance of a Biblical text (this practice will be described in Chapter 9), it is not at all difficult to see how the story of Joseph of Arimathea could have been partly shaped by Isaiah 53:9, «And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death,» found in the famous chapter on the suffering servant, which was certainly interpreted by the early Christians as a prophecy of the death of Jesus.

... [This] would of course require sensitivity of a high order to the whole nature of the story and to the ways in which it would be (of course) inappropriate simply to repeat verbatim passages from earlier sections.

The story it contains of the risen Jesus and his disciples beside the sea of Galilee may also stem from a quite early tradition, which took shape before the period when Easter stories came to be confined to Jerusalem.

Naturally the virgin birth, attested by Matthew and Luke, is branded a theologoumenon, the product of the early Church's refection which invented stories to highlight Jesus» significance.

And to hundreds of millions the most radiant day of all the bright and dark days in the story of mankind is that which saw his birth — no wonder an earlier and more imaginative age made it a day of weird unearthly beauty, when a strange star hung low above the city of David and a multitude of angels broke with sudden glory the silence of the dawn.

I used to puzzle over the meaning of the story which appears in the early part of John's gospel about Jesus changing water into wine.

This was the faith of the early church, a faith which could be expressed only in the terms of sacrament and story.

We may say that a motif which can be detected in a multiplicity of strands of tradition and in various forms (pronouncement stories, parables, sayings, etc.) will have a high claim to authenticity, always provided that it is not characteristic of an activity, interest or emphasis of the earliest Church.

Concert in an Egg, in regards to Genesis 1:27, which was written by the Priestly Source, stating the first man and woman were created simultaneously, whereas the Genesis 2 creation story, written by the Yahwist, which is the older of the two creation stories, has Eve formed from Adam's rib, there are other early Jewish myths that provide an explanation, i.e., that Eve was not the first woman Yahweh provided for Adam.

you'd think if god was truly the god spoken of then faith would be unneeded and belief a thing of the past — yet — people will believe whatever they wish no matter the proof or lack there of and its truly sad to consider that this delusion type mass brainwashing is going on right now and has been for over 2000 years... please don't let the time in which this sm.ut has been around make you think its worth its wieght in salt — i bid Lot's wife its not — in ALL early man stories from around the globe people have created GRAND stories about the start and end of times — its that simple.

The earliest history in the Bible recorded by a contemporary is that which tells the stories of Samuel, Saul, and David, who lived about l000 B.C. King David had both a secretary and a recorder, (II Sam.

In creating their stories, Strauss wrote, the early Christians drew largely upon Old Testament motifs and themes; they used them as models with which to describe how they saw the role of Jesus.

Hosea contrasts God's steadfast hesed with human love, which is variable and unreliable, saying to the people, «Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes away early» (6:4), whereas the first story of Israel as faithless wife culminates with the husband - God expressing the intent to «take you for my wife in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love, and in mercy» (2:19).

Out of that came Jesus's birthday on Dec. 25th which was originally the pagan festival day for Sol Invictus (the Victorious Sun) and the rest of the great fantasy story (see Pope Leo X's quote in the early 1600's... paraphrased: «It has served us well, this myth of Christ» — out of the mouth of a Pope no less).

I wonder how through history this story played against the story of Daniel and Susanna which is in the Deuterocanonical books and likely familiar to the early church.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

It became stabilized, so to speak, very early and therefore displays a spontaneity, charm, and naivete which contrast sharply with the preceding story.

Once we set Jesus in the context of a larger scriptural story, however, and come to grips with his sense of what exactly the new the new covenant would mean and how it would both fulfill and transform the old one... we discover a much richer, and more narratival, sense of «fulfillment,» which generates that subtle and powerful view of scripture we find in the early church.»

«This new way resulted in their recognizing that some parts of scriptures were no longer relevant for their ongoing life,» says Wright» — not, we must stress, because those parts were bad, or not God - given, or less inspired, but because they belonged with earlier parts of the story which had now reached its climax.»

which now reports its own memory» of Moses» call; or if, in the unified story's intent, this is a reiteration at a critical moment of the call experience, it brings to mind the earlier episode of the mountain of God, the burning bush, and the holy ground (JE 3:1 - 6).

Multilingual, he spoke not only the Lithuanian - inflected Polish of his birthplace but also Yiddish and Russian — he wrote poetry in both — and French, the language in which he wrote the story of his early life.

This story of Moses» birth sounds a simple theme which appears, with variations, widely through the centuries and lands surrounding the time and place of the early Hebrews.

The fact that man has made up thousands of gods... the fact that many of those stories were taken from previous cultures, the fact that 90 % of what Jesus allegedly said was taught by the Buddha 400 years earlier... FAR more evidence of any of the supernatural claims, which is absolutely zero, nothing, not one shred of evidence ever.

Press TV posted a story on its website early Friday morning explaining that the program «Iran Today,» which will air Friday night, would include interviews with - among others - Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who was sentenced to be stoned to death.

Pagels's and Ehrman's books in particular are page - turners in which early Christian history unfolds with the drama of a first - rate detective story.

The story of the early church shows us the great cultural movement of Christian communities which transformed the culture of the Roman Empire.