Sentences with phrase «in old myths»

But it may be healthier for adults than continuing to think like a child and believe in old myths designed to have a person behave decently before they achieve maturity.

God is pretend, too many believe in the old myth.

In the old myth, to have integrity meant not to change.

Not exact matches

Keith Fix is the kind of customer that mobile service providers dream about and believe exists only in myth: a tech - savvy 20 - year - old who runs his own business.

They do not in fact bury their heads in the sand as the old wives» tale tells it, but the fact that most of us believe that myth to be true only makes a stronger point: if the move you choose is to burrow in deeper to protect the current nest on which you rest, the odds are high that you're leaving yourself a sitting duck (or ostrich, as it were).

And some myths are old truths that may have been appropriate at some point in time but have since become obsolete by different circumstances.

UBC's David Boyd takes on dinosaur - in - chief Terence Corcoran on the nexus between environment and economy, and Canada's lagging rankings: Old ideas produce heat, not light... The myth that nations must choose between economic prosperity and a healthy environment has been conclusively debunked.Countries including Sweden, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands are similar to Canada with -LSB-...]

The Bible is just a disjointed collection of old myths, I have as much faith in it as the next Ponzi scheme.

Believe in any old magic, myth, fable or set of nonsensical gods you want and it's fine... believe in reality and you are out on your ear... The good of US of A.

Some people don't like the notion of a universe forming from quantum foam, but, instead, would much rather imagine a god forming the universe, which is why we have thousands of creation myths, including the two biblical ones, the one written by the Priestly Source in Genesis 1 and the older creation myth written by the Jahwist in Genesis 2, which borrow from older Sumerian mythology.

And when it does, I'll laugh in your face for being one of the last vestiges to stand up for an old myth which hasn't a shred of evidence to support its veracity.

Some people don't like the notion of a universe forming from quantum foam, but, instead, would much rather imagine a god forming the universe, which is why we have thousands of creation myths, including the two biblical ones, the one written by the Priestly Source in Genesis 1 and the older creation myth written by the Jahwist in Genesis 2, myths which borrow from older Sumerian mythology.

All you have is a book that was cobbled together from old myths and edited by men who had a personal stake in what was included in that book.

Meanwhile we have believerfred that has his oh so supernatural god that can change the natural laws of the universe at whim; why because it says so in a 2000 year old book of myths, so there take that.

The silliest of these is the old myth — which I used to think was the invention of some nineteenth - century Protestant clergyman, but which is in fact considerably older — that the «Needle's Eye» was a particularly low gate in the walls of Jerusalem, through which a laden camel could not pass without being unburdened or even (as one zoologically illiterate version has it) crawling through on its knees.

To this day, the greatest achievement of theological mediation in this direction is Bultmann's method of demythologizing, which assumes that any objective meaning of the gospel, any meaning that speaks of the world or reality as such, including the idea that the end of the world is at hand, belongs to the world of myth and not of gospel, and therein is consigned either to the premodern age of humanity or to the realm of the old Adam or «flesh» (sarx).

He goes on to say that, â $ it is a tragedy in a time when there is so much to know that people are actively led astray by midlevel Bronze Age myths and writings over 2000 years old and what really matters is the truthâ $.

Choosing as his subject the biblical account of the marriage at Cana, he takes the Scripture's «sustaining myth» and transforms it (in the style of the 15th - century Old Masters) into a mythic self - portrait.

All of this is to say, then, that myth and legend in the Old Testament serve for us a historical purpose: the literature of Genesis informs us in a unique way about the faith of the community of Israel, about what Israel believed.

The older myths like Hindu, believe in reincarnation..

Whatever the original intent of Old Testament myth and legend, it is shaped, preserved and understood in Israel by faith.

I believe that Pagan holidays and pagan rituals and pagan beliefs, and all the old stories and tales and myths from pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was lost.

You also seem to not realize that much of science fiction is just a reimagining of the old myths set in some future time.

The eschatological myth of older ages that the cosmos must someday necessarily be burned up in a cosmic fire also entered into Buddhism.

Some of the assumptions we all maintained about getting older turned out to be myths perpetuated by culture and not the reality we're living in.

IOW, it's the oldest KJ version of myths and legends utilized to control a population, immerse it's followers in a false sense of purpose, embed a fear of an invisible daddy figure and coddle the fear of death.

When we turn from the myths of the Ancient Near East to the literature of Israel preserved in the Old Testament, we find ourselves moving in quite a different world of thought.

In the five chapters of this book I have selected and discussed outstanding examples of Old Testament myth, legend, history, prophecy and law in an effort to show that common theological presuppositions underlie all of these varying literary types, and that they must be read and understood as speaking from faith to faitIn the five chapters of this book I have selected and discussed outstanding examples of Old Testament myth, legend, history, prophecy and law in an effort to show that common theological presuppositions underlie all of these varying literary types, and that they must be read and understood as speaking from faith to faitin an effort to show that common theological presuppositions underlie all of these varying literary types, and that they must be read and understood as speaking from faith to faith.

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.

Is then this idea of a self - subsistent, finite universe which has disintegrated the old myth a fate which we must in all honesty submit to?

And therefore the modern world view is not necessarily in conflict with the old myth.

Despite the tragic bloodshed, Catholics were able to grow in confidence and respectability, old anti-Catholic myths began to disappear, the lay apostolate was given a boost on the Home Front and the denominations began to work together.

It contains rituals for the funerary offerings at the tomb, charms, very old rituals for use in worship, hymns, myths and prayers.

We have seen something of the covenant faith of Israel as it is expressed in Old Testament myth, legend and history.

The entire story is given to us in the Old Testament material, including as it does much genuine history as well as a good deal of legend and myth, not to speak of poetic expressions of the relationship between Jahweh and humankind but with reference also to non-Jewish races and nations.

Not being a nutter myself, I really couldn't care less what is written in some old book of myths, but I would have expected these people to take note of Leviticus 19 - 28.

... and just for the LDS crowd, Luzia Woman found at one of the oldest human settlements in the world at Minas Gerais, Brazil 11500 years old... utterly destroys the LDS myth that the Lamenites were the base for the indigenous cultures in the americas.

Weather you believe or not (I open my eyes every day) so it's not hard to All will stand before the lord on the day of reckoning which man will no doubtedly usher in and those who don't believe or against god will try to wage war on the almighty to no avail, only to be left in ruins... the great Satan (adversary) will be all who oppose god in battle, that serpent of old is still here today, we live in the middle of a brood of vipers and this website is part of the venom aimed at distorting the faithfuls belief as well as a an agonist for those who wish to continue to disbelieve... CNN is anti god To my brothers and sisters who truly live in Christ Peace be with you and never forget your path despite the darkness that is trying to consume you, bring enough oil for your lamps to live in this darkness and bring extra in case of a delay, he will not abandon you... we will not be forgotten Amen To those who don't, I know the myth of Santa and the easterbunny really choked up your insides to find that they were not real, but childhood is over and it was a cruel human joke designed to make it that much harder for you to believe in that which visits you and you can't see, no matter you have life so is it too much to ask for a little belief?

Idiocy — The mental illness (or psychosis) is the fact that religious people believe in things that have proven to be complete fiction (The Earth is 6000 years old, evolution is a myth, people walking on water, talking snakes).

In this, Romantic modernists did not so much discard the old myths as translate them into the conceptual framework of an agnostic and intuitive humanism.

No doubt the fundamentalist hostility to social - welfare programs also derives from a belief in the myth of «the good old days.»

If repugs could believe in human achievement and science as much as they believe in a creation myth it would be a start toward becoming a party people othere than old angry white guys (I'm an old white guy, just not angry) could believe in.

But even without the exact details I listed above, there are parallels in ideas and themes from old pagan myths and themes found in the Gospels.

I'm giving up all hope that people will eventually have some intelligence and stop believing in archaic old myths and fairytales.

Even in their own parish church, with sermons in German, for many people religion had the sense of the frightening «unknown» of the old pagan myths.

2,000 year old myths have no place in directing our lives today.

The pattern that Campbell found typifying hero myths thousands of years old is resonant in Trinity's recent experience.

In other cultures such stories are usually thought of as myths, but it is an offense to suggest to the pious Christian or Jew of the older school that the Bible is in any sense mythical in characteIn other cultures such stories are usually thought of as myths, but it is an offense to suggest to the pious Christian or Jew of the older school that the Bible is in any sense mythical in charactein any sense mythical in charactein character.

(Leaving the pit in the dip, an old myth, doesn't help.)

«The old myth that people in nursing homes need their foods under - seasoned is wrong — they need it more to taste the same as they used to,» says Mark Ainsworth, a professor of culinary arts at the Culinary Institute of America.