Sentences with phrase «given by our ancestors»

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Some prefer the answer given thousands of years ago by our distant ancestors who said Atum or El, or Ptah, or Vishvakarman, or Yahweh, etc. created the universe.

Given the choice between the canon of scripture and modern principles of interpretation, I have no question where to camp, but I am, to a large degree, challenged by what looks like a major disconnect between modern scholarly discipline and the understanding of our ancestors in the faith.

He's not mean, He is just and gives people what they want And no, he is all powerful, if He could do it, then he wouldn't be all powerful And again no, he made Adam and Eve (sustained them too) and all our other ancestors thus, no, God gave you life And no, He is constant and reliable and is continually backed up by history and science And no, you're not paying for them, Jesus Christ died and paid for your sins and mine.

One day, probably not in the near future judging by how much unspent energy there still is to tap, we will simply give up trying to fix what our ancestors broke, and just admit that our good intentions are just as naive and interfering as theirs were.

Religion was created by our ancestors to help guide us but because we were given the ability of thought and understanding, there were many that misinterpreted what was left to guide us.

Origins of such a notion go far back in human history, to primitive days when our remote ancestors thought that some special anima indwelt human bodies; it was given additional support by the teaching of certain of the Greeks, with their insistence on the soul as entirely distinct from, yet temporarily the tenant of, the body — at its most extreme this expressed itself in the saying soma sema, «the body is the prison - house of the soul».

Get into a country store and sit on the cracker - box by the side of two or three Georgia «colonels» and «majors,» and they will tell any number of tales about how their ancestors bought their estates from the Indians and to close up the bargain gave the «noble red men» a barbecue, consisting of venison and sweetened hoe - cake, followed by plenty of imported rum and other «firewaters.»

«As the sons and daughters of the slaves, let us give life to our dead ancestors by speaking in a loud voice that says, «I have searched for you and I have found you.

This research shows how global studies of our genes can give insight into how our taste for different foods may have been influenced by variation in our ability to smell, and, excitingly, show that it is possible to see back into deep evolutionary time and reconstruct the sensory world of our distant ancestors.

Like nearly all of our family legends, this one has to be taken on faith (my ancestors were not given to writing things down) but as a boy I was more than willing to do so, and ever since, I have been fascinated by the American bison, which at one time roamed through most of the North American continent, sixty million strong.

As Sharfstein answered questions on judicial processes in the Jim Crow South and how genealogical research has given meaning to people's lives (like when a person who'd identified as white her entire life found out her ancestors had been slaves), I was struck by how valuable bookstore readings are.

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Inspired by the diet of their wolf ancestors, grain - free BLUE Wilderness gives dogs more of the high - quality real meat they naturally love, without the grains.

You play as Thora, a Viking warrior maiden who, after dying an inglorious death at sea, is given a chance to ascend and join her ancestors in Valhalla by impressing the gods.

In the Sun Stone sidequest, the party will change the attitude of Mayor from greedy to charitable by giving Spiced Jerky to his ancestor in 600 A.D.

Each of the three sessions in the panel was framed by a report from places vulnerable to environmental, political, and socio - economic upheavals, given by people who live in — and whose ancestors lived in — the country about which...

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