Sentences with phrase «from ancient gods»

With a wild mix of weaponry, blessings from ancient gods, and good -» ol - fashioned FPS skills, the Redneck may just be able to find what he seeks.

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 essential gist of things is that you're descended from some ancient god whose entire bloodline has been banished from Olympus, and after having died in some horrific way you find yourself in the Maze of Hades, given a chance to avoid a eternal damnation and reclaim your place among the gods.

Not exact matches

WHY do they believe that their God is so concerned about whether or not they listen to musical instruments in church on Sunday, get dunked or sprinkled in ceremonial water, speak in a tongue as some kind of sign... to whom ever, read from the correct translation of some long lost ancient books, etc, etc?

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

«Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:» (Isaiah 46:9 - 10)

What is really fascinating is the theory that the Hebrew and Muslim deity figure derive from a war god in an ancient Semitic pantheon whose association with the other gods was lost in the confusion that time and oral tradition bring.

@fimilleur from time to time mankind experiences the presence of God, there have been and continue to be events that testify to the presence of Him.The multiple gods you continually point to have an unique difference from the God who first revealed His presence to ancient men i.e. the Hebrews.The particular gods you mention roman etc. are all man made and in many instances men themselves i.e. hercules, but even the ancient greeks realized the limitations of their understanding and included an «unknown» God in their worship structure.many cultures did likewise, having a glimpse of God but not the fullness of understanding that was given to the Jews.Whether or not «we» believe, does not alter the fact that God exists as an unique being, whether or not «we» acknowledge Him «we» will stand before Him.You do not choose to understand, but we are actually standing in His presence right now as He is much bigger than the doctrines and knowledge man ascribes to Him those things you find so questionable are the misconceptions and misrepresentations of God made by men throughout history.

The earliest Satanists were the Ophites (and ancient cult) who believed that the god was trying to keep them ignorant and the snake brought them to the tree of knowledge, enlightening them to distiguish right from wrong.

At least «god is love» is an advance from the ancient «angry gods» paradigm, where they require sacrifices, to gain their favor.

The Bible, the Quran, all ancient holy books used by Earth's religions are inspired from the same intelligence we call God.

This is a distorted translation... lots of good information comes from ancient books... it's just that the bible is fictional and any useful information can be found anywhere else since the bible plagiarized any real useful information that's in it... like do unto others as you wish them to do to you... is just ancient common sense and has nothing to do with what any fantasy gods might have said... the bible is a waste of time for the stupids.

It was the first public evidence of the project that had gradually taken shape in my mind during the preceding years: to work out on the level of systematic theology the ancient Israelitic view of reality as a history of God's interaction with his creation, as I had internalized it from the exegesis of my teacher Gerhard von Rad, after I had discovered how to extend it to the New Testament by way of Jewish eschatology and its developments in Jesus» message and history.

[92] In ancient Rome, epilepsy was known as the Morbus Comitialis («disease of the assembly hall») and was seen as a curse from the gods.

In ancient days, there were prophets and apostles who held authority that was granted them either directly from God, Jesus Christ, or from angelic ministers.

And then that moment of birth being one of complete relief and release and joy, yes absolutely, but instead of popping champagne corks or bursting into laughter, I cried from the core of myself — like some ancient writer said, I lifted up my voice and I wept, because she was finally here and we were alive and we were safe and I felt held by the God - with - us; it was the most human and most sacred thing I'd ever done in my life, it felt like a glimpse of Incarnation.

God said we should not kill (murder is the word from the direct translation from the Ancient Greek and Hebrew) and He did not tell people to stone their servants if they worked on the sabbath (the metaphore was generated by mortal man).

By breaking loose from God's ancient tutelage, they believe, man has graduated into an authentic situation.

Even if those who are to come from all directions to put to shame Jesus» fellow - countrymen are really Gentiles and not Jews of the dispersion, the words none the less naively assert that the chosen people and its heroes hold the central place in the Kingdom of God; afterward the Gentiles would join them, according to ancient prophecy.

From Kat W.: I've known of pagans who run the gamut from secular agnostics who treat their spirituality as completely metaphorical, to those who are pagan re-constructionists attempting to resurrect ancient tribal religions and espouse a literal belief in their chosen pantheon of gFrom Kat W.: I've known of pagans who run the gamut from secular agnostics who treat their spirituality as completely metaphorical, to those who are pagan re-constructionists attempting to resurrect ancient tribal religions and espouse a literal belief in their chosen pantheon of gfrom secular agnostics who treat their spirituality as completely metaphorical, to those who are pagan re-constructionists attempting to resurrect ancient tribal religions and espouse a literal belief in their chosen pantheon of gods.

See the answer above — I see the Genesis narratives as God graciously reaching down to an ancient culture in order to communicate to them that he is their creator, that they are alienated from him, and that he desires that they be restored to fellowship through his offer of covenant with him (ultimately pointing to the need for God to step into history himself as the One who can keep the covenant on our behalf).

We have another heritage, however, springing from the great Hebrew prophets, coming to its fulfillment in Christ, gathering up the best of ancient Greece, a heritage of faith in God and man, of humaneness and goodwill.

Feuerbach further offended the people of his day by suggesting that the ancient nature religions remained superior to Christianity since they were sensuously in touch with the earth and with nature, whereas Christianity had become separated from nature, and had made of God a separate, sexless, spiritual being.

Two other ancient prayers, the eleventh of the Eighteen Benedictions, from the period before the destruction of the Temple in AD 70, and the Alenu prayer, probably from the third century AD, both use a form of the verb mlk, «to reign, be king», with God as the subject.

Even though the Bible was pointing away from the gods of ancient man, it was still forced to use the God - language of ancient man.

We've all heard the ancient, nonsensical hypothesis about the all knowing, all merciful, all loving god, who seems to find joy in destroying cities, killing vast numbers of people by floods, fire from the sky, plagues and pestilence.

Aliens created humans on this planet just as we are told from all ancient Civilizations around the world even the bible tells us from the book of Enoch, Ezekiel tells us they took him up into space in a ship does God need a ship?

The ancient Hebrew transition from henotheism to monotheism is an excellent example of such progress; the God of Israel was adequate for the confrontation between Israel and Egypt, but the God who could intervene in the long struggle among Israel, Assyria, and Babylon had to be the God of the whole world (cf. e.g., Amos 9:7, Isaiah 10:5 - 15).

The Bible itself gives the purpose of prophecy, «Remember the former things long past, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things which have not been done...» (Isaiah 46:9, 10, NASB).

The artists draw on an ancient tradition of Mary as herself a voracious reader, stewed in holy Scriptures, and a notion, then commonplace, of the affinity between the intellectual and spiritual lives, of the «garden enclosed» where the God of truth meets the believer, set apart from the demands of the world.

If there was a God, it wouldn't be hard from him / her to create a message that was not confusing to ancient Hebrews (and not just those who read) about gravity waves and dark matter.

This means that He was to be sharply distinguished from the gods of ancient man.

Indeed both Jews and Christians have, on occasions, been labeled atheists, since they rejected all other gods and refrained from portraying their own God YHWH in any of the forms that ancient man associated with the gods.

Unfortunately, as a former Christian, well acquainted with sin and confession and the whole bloody business of sacrifice to appease Someone who thinks that shows «love,» I question the whole ancient story, all the animals killed, all the trees cut down (for temples and churches and crosses and «holy books») and all the human beings left to feel separated again and again from the universe, Nature, each other and their «gods.»

It was something celebrated in the later history of the Hebrew people, a ceremony through which ancient nomadic folk from the wilderness believed that God was coming to them in the form of a cloud.

When the Old Testament speaks about God, it is not referring to one of the many gods which derived from the imagination of ancient man, but to the one and only YHWH, who not only brought them into being, but also continued to be the Lord of history.

The implications of Israel's understanding of YHWH, as expressed in the first two commandments, are completely at variance with the way ancient man thought of the gods, and explain the iconoclasm which has been prominent from time to time in both Judaism and Christianity.

Thus the ancient God of the way, the God who caused Abraham to «stray» from his father's house and went before him in his wanderings, is acknowledged by suffering generations as their Shepherd in the way of exile.

Part of the answer is that these ancient events are moments in a living process which includes also the existence of the church at the present day; and another part is that, as Christians believe, in these events of ancient time God was at work among men, and it is from his action in history rather than from abstract arguments that we learn what God is like, and what are the principles on which he deals with men, now as always.

But while this «way» was in some sense a new departure, it still emanated from the context of Israel's ancient hope in God's promises.

CW - Oh, non-believers know the stories of God's prophesied future «glory», but there have been many, many prophecies handed down throughout the ages from many ancient peoples and not one of them has panned out yet.

If «God» does not exist, then we could do as Jefferson did, and excise all mention of things supernatural from the Bible, and just keep a few ancient pearls of wisdom and a bit of Middle Eastern historical facts.

As Bultmann uses them, the former refers to an event so far as it is significant for human existence (e.g., the cross as the salvation - occurrence through which I understand myself as judged and forgiven by God), while the latter refers to an event considered in abstraction from such significance (e.g., the cross as an incident in the annals of ancient history).»

In his significant work Christianity in World History, a prominent theologian Arend Theodor van Leeuwen has argued that the idea of separating out the things of God from the things of people in such a way as to deny the divine nature of kingship was first formulated in ancient Israel and then became a major motif of Christianity.

In his historical tour of the proofs for and against God's existence, Nathan Schneider, a journalist and activist whose last work treated the Occupy movement, unfolds the story of provers and their arguments from the ancient Greeks through medieval Muslims to today's analytic philosophers and New Atheists.

Personally I think that the angry God came from ancient thinking where the harshness of nature (red in tooth and claw!)

9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

How is it possible that two such mutually exclusive concepts of man could be championed from ancient until modern times — man, an animal; man, a God?

Not only to have a fake date attached to his Sons birth, but, a celebration stolen from the Ancient Egyptians, a date associated with their false gods, and their decadent s - ex worship!

The concept of a Triune god was stolen from the ancient Egyptian's and has no place in pure worship.