Sentences with phrase «modern ears»

But this may sound to modern ears like explaining the unknown by the more unknown!

Roncace argues that the Bible is raw, uncooked, unprocessed, and full of dirt and gristle, and we do ourselves and God a disservice when we try to make the Bible more palatable for modern ears.

Similarly, Paul's statement, lamentable in modern ears, that it is better to remain unmarried but that if one can not remain unmarried without being unchaste, «it is better to marry than to burn,» (I Corinthians 7:9.)

This refers to Ephesians 5:22 in which wives are instructed to obey their husbands in language that causes modern ears to balk.

All this sounds very much as though the traditional language of the faith were being excised as an act of concession to modern ears untrained, untuned, and uninterested.

Some of them are a little difficult for modern ears, as, for example, the ancient theory that man, having been sold to the Devil, must be brought back by God; and so God paid a price to Satan.

«Orphan» is one of those words that seems old - fashioned to modern ears» a word that evokes abject poverty in a Dickens novel.

The bridal imagery invoked throughout the Fathers and in the Rite itself may sound awkwardly to modern ears, yet it contains a profound truth about the absolute fidelity to which the virgin is called.

It sounds a little weird to our modern ears but it would have been absolutely shocking to the Jewish leaders of the time.

To recognize the need for different approaches to preaching the same message in different situations is not at all the same as altering the message to make it more palatable to modern ears.

Frankly, the whole argument sounds somewhat silly to modern ears, but was quite consistent with Hebraic ways of thinking about their ancestors and helps solve the dilemma about how Jesus could be our High Priest even though He was not of the Tribe of Levi.

Such a piece of advice sounds utterly absurd to modern ears, perhaps even to most believers» ears.

The code proper ends with t: he strange injunction, 9 which sounds to modern ears neither moral nor religious, «You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk,» and is followed immediately by the renewal of the covenant.

That is the gospel, and it can renew itself in all its strangeness to the modern ear.

[1] To modern ears, this is a surprising declaration.

Righteousness has a rather dreary sound to modern ears, because it somehow makes us think of self - righteousness, the smug twitch of the mantilla, the faint air of moral superiority.

To the modern ear, those terms do seem like dated, pseudoscientific Victorianisms.

The modern ear adapted by channeling sound waves onto an elastic membrane (the eardrum), causing it to vibrate.

A statement jewelry piece with plenty of visual impact, the star motif on the silver ear crawlers is fun and the look of these modern ear climbers is here to stay.

If you think you know how outdated and hilarious the latter sound to the modern ear, think again — it's worse.

Admittedly, to present Porter's songs as they were sung in the early part of the last century would be untenable to modern ears, but Winkler drives us to distraction by enlisting today's pop music stars: Robbie Williams, Elvis Costello, Diana Krall, Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Crow, among others, take their turns stopping the show (Natalie Cole's «Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye» succeeds best, as a cabaret - style torch song).

Thankfully, in the modern ear, business owners are more mindful of this and are aware of how business operations can harm the environment.

While «meat beer» may sound a bit disconcerting to the modern ear, anyone who's had a Guinness or other beer filtered with isinglass has in fact consumed «fish bladder beer.»

When a platform shows it can not be trusted, users are free to abandon it and either seek out other platforms or — and this will sound like heresy to modern ears — just don't use social media.