Sentences with phrase «from ancient life»

I can see the trace of history from ancient life from that.

Because they are sealed tight, these carbon - filled «mineral bottles» exclude the possibility that the MMC came from ancient life.

Not exact matches

From novel scheduling systems, to exhortations to invest in health, and even spiritual reminders that «work - life balance» is really a modern spin on the ancient and fundamentally difficult question of what constitutes a life well lived, you can spend hours upon hours neither working nor living but simply reading through posts and columns on the topic.

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.

I can understand how from your vantage point basing an entire life on an ancient manuscript seems asinine!

Saying prayers that were written hundreds of years ago can feel dry and empty when an ancient form is divorced from the living tradition.

I choose to live according to a morality that I have some say in, not one that was originally imposed upon an ancient people, hopelessly removed from my culture.

Origen, the fecund Christian teacher from ancient Alexandria, said, «Genuine transformation of life comes from reading the ancient Scriptures, learning who the just men and women were and imitating them.»

Actually there has been life found on other planets; bacteria from Mars was discovered in an ancient meteorite that smashed into the Antarctic over 13,000 years ago.

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.

Called «Etz Hayim» («Tree of Life» in Hebrew), it offers an interpretation that incorporates the latest findings from archaeology, philology, anthropology and the study of ancient cultures.

I speak throughout Canada and internationally to churches, conferences, women's groups, universities, and workshops on topics ranging from spiritual formation, a sacramental view of living, being a Christian feminist, the ways that we can navigate change throughout our faith journey, the embrace of ancient church practices as a charismatic Christian, writing, social justice, and many other topics.

If your so - called «faith» is so strong and «protects» you from all of your perceived «dangers of evil», then WHY are you so afraid of people who have simply decided to live a life guided by REASON instead of a life guided by contrived dogma and ancient mythology?

Finally, if one goes by texts and not anecdotes, the UCC Constitution and Statement of Faith represent who we really claim corporately to be, not to mention the seven recent volumes of The Living Theological Heritage of the United Church of Christ, tracing our lineage from the ancient creeds forward.

From ancient times until today, childbirth remains one of the most fearful and oftentimes painful moments in a woman's life.

That is an ancient doctrine of the faith, but too often today people shy away from it and try to mitigate the revealed truth that a religious vocation is more perfect than any secular life can be.

The story concerned the Akhdam, the lowest social caste in Yemen, supposedly descended from Ethiopians left behind when the ancient Ethiopian empire was driven out of Arabia in the sixth century, who live in the most unimaginable squalor.

Because we have had these experiences and live with these developments and because these experiences and developments can not be erased or quarantined from our perceptual and analytical processes, we are not capable of developing an adequate or reasonable comprehension of ancient times, cultures and people.

It is as though a new and formidable mountain chain had arisen in the landscape of the soul, causing ancient categories to be reshuffled and uniting higgledy - piggledy on every slope the friends and enemies of yesterday: on one side the inflexible and sterile vision of a Universe composed of unalterable, juxtaposed parts, and on the other side the ardour, the faith, the contagion of a living truth emerging from all action and exercise of will.

The ancient Hebrews were a wicked people who were constantly killing other people, supposedly upon orders from «The Lord» yet YHWH's son Yehoshua preached a completely different message that was filled with love for other people and instruction to live peacefully with them.

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.

The true meaning of the Galut, the exile of the Jews, is the falling away from the ancient striving for unity into an unproductive spirituality and intellectuality divorced from life.

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.

Finally, rational consciousness was prepared to assert its full autonomy from, and its power over, the mythical symbolization by which ancient civilization had lived.

Looking at the process of agriculture as an ecological activity of divine providence stems from our understanding that farming was an integral part of the ancient life.

The ancients recognized soil as a living thing, deriving its energy from the sun.144

To those theologians who contend that the life and resurrection of Jesus is one of the most documented events in ancient history, both in scripture and recorded history, Berger asks them to produce «one single police report» from a nonpartisan source that wasn't inserted into the text far after the fact!

What links a single mother from Colombia who lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with an ancient Muslim mosque in India?

A Woman Called: Piecing Together the Ministry Puzzle by Sara Gaston Barton — With a writer's eye and a teacher's heart, Sara Barton weaves together stories from Michigan to Uganda, Texas to ancient Israel, to bring the conversation about women and ministry to life.

Their intellectual attainment will be realized only when we admit fully, as the evidence demands, that Hebrew religion achieved freedom from an idolatry (to use a common term) similar to that of the rest of the ancient East — Yahweh was, through the earlier period of the nation's life in Palestine, worshiped in physical form, just as Marduk or Amon or any of the rest of them in their lands.

In other words, beyond the ancient Greek quest for happiness in security, he proposes living convivially through generosity to the other and through receiving back again from the other.

It is evident from this long and tedious record that warfare was a way of life for the ancient people of God.

We live in a vastly different context of thought from that of ancient man.

This is purported to be an improvement over the ancient Greek idea that to be ethical is to value as the only source of secure happiness that which can not be taken away from one, such as, for example, a simple, ordered, tranquil life, passed mainly in contemplation and the enjoyment of secure friendship — a life relatively immune to disaster.

It is universally recognized that the long story from our earliest remains of human life onward through the great civilizations of the ancient east witnessed remarkable advances.

From these hymns can be discovered much concerning the life and thought of the ancient Vedic Indians.

The young Catholic Churches, as they grow, develop a synthesis of faith, culture and life, and so it is a synthesis different from the one developed by the ancient Churches.

Like the ancient dybbuk separated from its body and consigned to wander the world, modern man senses his detachment from life as the peculiar curse of his modernity, the price paid to Satan in return for distance.

The church is organized on the same principles as the original and ancient church of Jesus Christ on the foundation of living apostles and prophets and with priesthood authority from God.

The so - called Tridentine rite, of course, far from being «medieval» has roots deep in pre-medieval antiquity (it is in any case a strange view of history in which the Counter-Reformation took place in the middle ages), and is a living manifestation of the Newmanian principle of development, wherebya process of continuous change is inevitable if the essence of the Church's faith is to remain the same: for, as The Catholic Herald pointed out in its admirable leader, the reforms of Pope St Pius V, enshrined in the Missal of 1570, itself containing ancient elements, «were inspired by the Council of Trent.

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority.

If they are from a biblically conservative tradition they are likely to use selected references to sexuality, marriage, and family to communicate the ideals of God in a way that will encourage and motivate people to strive for the ideal.6 This didactic use of the Bible fails to distinguish the radical difference between family life and the religious practices of ancient and modern cultures.

As the Word springs forth from the vortex of its ancient setting to express itself through the vortex of text / preacher / people in social context, the Word of God happens; it becomes a proclamation event in the lives of the people experiencing the sermon.

The teaching of Jesus was set in the context of ancient Judaism, and in many respects that teaching must have been variations on themes from the religious life of ancient Judaism.

Ancient man did not evolve from apes and were not idiots, but were clever enough to discover fire and medicine from plant life around them.

As a supplement to the reading of the stories of the life of the Buddha, and an aid to understanding the role of the Buddha in Buddhism, Anil De Silva - Vigier's The Life of the Buddha Retold from Ancient Sources serves a unique function for it tells the life of the Buddha with illustrations of Buddhist life of the Buddha, and an aid to understanding the role of the Buddha in Buddhism, Anil De Silva - Vigier's The Life of the Buddha Retold from Ancient Sources serves a unique function for it tells the life of the Buddha with illustrations of Buddhist Life of the Buddha Retold from Ancient Sources serves a unique function for it tells the life of the Buddha with illustrations of Buddhist life of the Buddha with illustrations of Buddhist art.

If there remained no other inscriptions or written material concerning Egypt, it would be possible to reconstruct, to a very considerable degree, the life and thought of ancient Egypt from this important book, for in the process of preparing for death and immortality, almost everything that is important in life itself is considered in one way or another.

In a celebrated essay published during World War II, he acknowledged that the classical form of Christian proclamation (kerygma) in which the living Christ was communicated was couched in terminology drawn from the now obsolete cosmology of the ancient world.»

(II Samuel 12:23) When to such influences from ancient racial tradition and from the controlling patterns of contemporary thought was added the fact that prophetic orthodoxy in Israel had held out no hope of a future life for the individual, it is not strange that even in the Old Testament's later writings we have explicit and convinced denials of such hope.

The idea that an ancient or billion year old world is the proven and evidenced fact is so very closed minded and from Engineer to Engineer, that is what will hold you back and limit your thoughts and life potential.