Sentences with phrase «for most ancient»

In order to determine what the root of their family tree looked like, biologists need reliable dating information for the most ancient animal subgroups — the sponges, cnidarians, comb jellies and placozoans.

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Today, most businesses still use these ancient artifacts because for years, faxing was the only way to exchange documents that needed signing or reading.

«The ancient Romans had a tradition: Whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: He stood under the arch.»

It may be among the most ancient pieces of leadership wisdom, yet when it falls from Robbins's lips, people listen, and they have for more than 30 years.

Boethius... thx for yr reply... I don't think it's that simple to say that» they got that from reading ancient documents incorrectly»... the specifically Christian apocalyptic thinking that has survived in various theologies, whether traditionally Catholic or the most horrific end time sect appears to have it's roots in both the old and new testaments, but that begs a question.What are those documents?

Ancient peoples were smarter and wiser than most secular people give them credit for.

The problem for Islam is that the crucifixion of Christ is one of the most reliably attested facts of the ancient world.

Mosul, the second - largest city in Iraq, is built on and adjacent to the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh, the setting for the biblical book of Jonah and once the most powerful capital of the ancient world.

they have forsaken Yahweh, they have despised the Holy One of Israel,» (Isaiah 1:4) and then he uttered one of the most solemn and moving denunciations of moral wrong and one of the most momentous pleas for social justice in ancient literature.

But most translations of Job fail to inform readers, even in a footnote, that the ancient Hebrew word for «tail» could also be a euphemism for «penis.»

Most ancient interpreters understood the Timaeus» arche to regard a metaphysical, not a temporal, principle: Wallis, 20, 65, 68, 77,102 f [19] For the metaphysical grounding of these statements cf. J. McDermott, S.J., «Faith, Reason, and Freedom,» Irish Theological Quarterly 67 (2002), 307 - 332.

For that reason most ancient pagan philosophers rejected the Christian Creator.

For the future of the Church everywhere, too, what is most essential is the ancient yet ever - new message of Christianity, that is to say that in the darkness of this life the hearts of men must entrust themselves to that ineffable, adorable mystery of life which we call God in faith, hope and love and unconditional confidence in Jesus Christ our Lord.

For all of its Renaissance splendor, the most impressive thing to me about St. Peter's is the necropolis, the ancient Roman cemetery far beneath the magnificent church of Bernini and Michelangelo.

Thus, in the very things most characteristic of the religion of ancient man, namely altars, sacrifices and temples, the prophets of Israel took the first steps in the direction of their abolition, for YHWH, being wholly different from the ancient gods, neither required the old cultic offerings, nor did He dwell in a house made by hands.

The best and most important evidence for the currency of the eschatological Kingdom of God expectation at the time of Jesus and its lack of definite form is the Kaddish prayer of the ancient synagogue.

due to racism, bigotry and ignorance, most modern historical books in the west do not or have not mentioned such historical facts bc for white men who compiled history books, any credit to any area east of Greece would have been too shameful, but again, when you read about ancient Persian culture and see it in action and look at their tablets and beliefs and artifacts and books, it's quite clear that the Persian Zoroastrian role is all over this....

A more ancient view, still apparent at many points in the Old Testament, had been that righteousness was rewarded by prosperity and long life in this world, and misfortune was a punishment for sin; but as Israel suffered more and more adversity, and the most faithful individuals and groups were the most oppressed and afflicted, it came to be felt that the humble, the meek, the devout, the poor were the righteous people of God, and the mighty and prosperous were the proud, wicked oppressors.

One of the phenomena most difficult for the Catholic Church to understand, as Gilfeather O'Brien points out, is how the Guatemalan cofradias (religious fratemities based on the syncretism of Roman Catholic and ancient Mayan teachings) have been unable to compete with Pentecostal groups that offer «personal transformation of the kind the Catholic Church has desired but never achieved over the centuries.»

Among all the ancient traditions, Buddhism is Christianity's most serious competitor for modern man's attention and loyalty.

As expected, I found that most of the folks calling for a return to «biblical womanhood» aren't actually calling for a return to the ancient near Eastern familial structure, but for a return to the nuclear family of pre-1950s America.

Regarding malakoi, Matthew notes that most uses of the word in ancient literature are not related to same - sex behavior but rather to men who were self - indulgent and enslaved to their passions... for women.

Which is appropriate, after all, since most of the ancient thinkers who have inspired her work certainly understood that our quest for eudaimonia is profoundly dependent upon the social order in which we live and think.

@ Doug — We have more technical knowledge for sure, but yes, I'd say that many of the ancients were MUCH better thinkers than most of us today.

In a recent book, The Geography of Genius, Eric Weiner sets out on what he calls «a search for the world's most creative places, from ancient Athens to Silicon Valley.»

The story of ancient Israel is a story worth knowing in and for itself, and the most ardent Christian interpreter does himself and his own faith a disservice if he fails to see this and acknowledge it.

Now the myths of the «dying - and - rising god» provided the most acceptable description for ancient man of the annual cycle of growth and decay which he observed in his crops and fruits.

In the Qur» an it is made clear that from most ancient times the word Islam has been used by all divine messengers and their followers as the name for their religion.

In large measure the Jewish element in it was explained away and its primitive flavor neutralized, for it was now no longer a Hebrew book, but a Greek thesaurus of most ancient oracles.

The particular diversion which Philip devised for use during the Carnival was a pilgrimage on foot to the «Seven Churches», the seven most ancient and important basilicas of Rome, a tour which lasted an evening and a day.

It is the problem that arises in its acutest form when life itself becomes a problem, when the goodness of existence is questionable, as it has been for most men at most times; when the ancient and universal suspicion arises that he is happiest who was never born and he next fortunate who died young.

The use of biblical language to express a Victorian worldview makes it very difficult for most Protestants to remember that the books of the Bible address questions posed in another time in terms of the worldviews of ancient cultures.

On rare occasions I have given other renderings of the Hebrew text; italics are always mine; and I have often substituted the Hebrew divine name, Yahweh, for the R.S.V.'s «the Lord,» a term, for most of us, loaded with connotations foreign to the ancient Israelite.

Lessing was not merely one of the most comprehensive minds Germany has had, he not only was possessed of rare exactitude in his learning (for which reason one can securely rely upon him and upon his autopsy without fear of being duped by inaccurate quotations which can be traced nowhere, by half - understood phrases which are drawn from untrustworthy compendiums, or to be disoriented by a foolish trumpeting of novelties which the ancients have expounded far better) but he possessed at the same time an exceedingly uncommon gift of explaining what he himself had understood.

To most of the Ancient Greeks, the criterion for truth was logical coherence, not correspondence to facts, and many, like Plato, were quite able to doubt empirical reality when it conflicted with a really good logical theory.

In a fascinating parallel with Thomas Aquinas» view of the matter, Novak shows that the covenant does not abolish nature but builds on it: Where natural justice was the most that other nations in the ancient Near East could imagine, justice was for Israel the bare minimum the covenant guaranteed.

In most ancient near Eastern cultures, including Israel, unmarried women were considered the property of their fathers (or the male head - of - house), and under biblical law could either be sold into slavery to pay off debt or married for a bride price (Exodus 21:7, Nehemiah 5:5; Genesis 29:1 - 10).

It's like how the Ancient Greek pre-Socratics believed that Atomsim had to be true because there had to be a most fundamental matter in order for the universe to have meaning definitive of truth.

Ironically, the passage in Colossians you gave (in vs. 13) is used to argue for Christus Victor, and the «through his blood,» in that verse isn't present in the most reliable ancient manuscripts... but that's besides the point.

Joseph's forgiveness of his brethren, for example, presents one of the most moving scenes in ancient literature, (Genesis, chap.

The story had its dim beginnings and it betrays its distant involvement in an ancient myth of creation out of the Near and Middle East which survived in various forms but best and most fully in the Babylonian Enuma Elish (a title derived from its opening words, «When on high»).4 Here chaos is represented in the goddess Tiamat, a name perhaps echoed in the Hebrew word for «deep» tehom (1:2).

Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self - control» Since most would agree that Paul's writings are surely divine inspiration for the total concept of «mutual gratification» in that time was not entertained in the minds of most ancient cultures it was seen more so as a «chore» that women did for their husband so that he would not stray into adultery.

Though an ancient evil, it began to receive intellectual defense more recently than most evils, for it was only a century ago that Count Gobineau published in French his four - volume Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races, in which he contended that color of skin determines mental and spiritual differences, and that mixture of blood produces degeneracy and the fall of civilizations.

That sociability is expressed most broadly as a fellow feeling for the whole human race, or what the ancients called philanthropy.

In ancient Israel's most dismal, hopeless hours, prophetism continued to speak with honesty, realistically acknowledging the anguish of Israel's existence and the fearful perplexities therein for the prophet; and yet at the same time it joyfully affirmed Yahweh's reign and the ultimate success of his Word.

The church and the ancient Hebrew - Jewish community, with which it is continuous, together form the historic stream of which the event, in the stricter sense in which we have for the most part been using the term, is the center.

His «anti-life» budget, they wrote, ignores the «most ancient moral teachings» of the Catholic Church on the duty of the powerful to care for the powerless.

If we grasp this aspect of our preaching, we may well have our part in a great movement of return to the intention of the Reformers of the sixteenth century as well as of the Fathers of the ancient Church: that the Lord's Supper shall in very deed be the act of Christian worship most loved, most used, and most honored by the whole of the Christian world, without base superstition or ungodly fear but in loving obedience to the command of the Lord and for the «strengthening and refreshing» of his people.

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If your diet allows for grains / flour, then the healthiest choice is Einkorn as it's the most Ancient grain available.