Sentences with phrase «most ancient times»

In the Qur» an it is made clear that from most ancient times the word Islam has been used by all divine messengers and their followers as the name for their religion.

If there is one shoe trend, which exists from the most ancient time, it is of course the gladiator sandals.

Not exact matches

It's funny how most all those books were written by men in different time periods, and yet there stories all go back and match those of the ancient Egyptians.

Boethius... thx for yr reply... I don't think it's that simple to say that» they got that from reading ancient documents incorrectly»... the specifically Christian apocalyptic thinking that has survived in various theologies, whether traditionally Catholic or the most horrific end time sect appears to have it's roots in both the old and new testaments, but that begs a question.What are those documents?

Most of them are perfectly aware that the stories of the Bible was written in historically ancient time with very different customs than our own that are not applicable to today's society.

The best and most important evidence for the currency of the eschatological Kingdom of God expectation at the time of Jesus and its lack of definite form is the Kaddish prayer of the ancient synagogue.

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

Creationism is the most absurd concept ever created, but at least people in ancient times didn't know any better.

«The most ancient thing is time — the most beautiful is light — the largest is the world — the wisest is truth — the most common is death — the most useful is God — the most hurtful is the devil — the strongest is fortune — and the most easy, to follow one's own inclination.»

Perhaps most misinformed theory that rolls around the Internet this time of year is that Easter was originally a celebration of the ancient Near Eastern fertility goddess Ishtar.

At a time when it could be argued that we most need it, we have lost the ancient Christian doctrine of original sin as a corporate human condition preceding and affecting each individual.

This experience, crystallized into permanent form in the Old Testament, constitutes the most remarkable theory of government that came out of the ancient world and at the same time an ideal that rebukes and challenges the distressing imperfections of our boasted modern democracy.

This answer also makes me the most happy, not that we haven't had other non-christian presidents before (Thomas Jefferson comes to mind) but Obama is the first is a long time and as an Agnostic myself I am proud to have a leader that puts the ideals of science and civil society above those of ancient and antiquated religions

It is the problem that arises in its acutest form when life itself becomes a problem, when the goodness of existence is questionable, as it has been for most men at most times; when the ancient and universal suspicion arises that he is happiest who was never born and he next fortunate who died young.

The use of biblical language to express a Victorian worldview makes it very difficult for most Protestants to remember that the books of the Bible address questions posed in another time in terms of the worldviews of ancient cultures.

Lessing was not merely one of the most comprehensive minds Germany has had, he not only was possessed of rare exactitude in his learning (for which reason one can securely rely upon him and upon his autopsy without fear of being duped by inaccurate quotations which can be traced nowhere, by half - understood phrases which are drawn from untrustworthy compendiums, or to be disoriented by a foolish trumpeting of novelties which the ancients have expounded far better) but he possessed at the same time an exceedingly uncommon gift of explaining what he himself had understood.

If you look at those» certain biblical passages» you'll discover that most are pretty common to ancient law codes of the time.

BTW, Catholics are taught that the Eastern Churches are the schismatics; but if were five ancient patriarchs at the time of the schism and four of them are still in communion with each other which one is most likely to be the schismatic?

Indeed, it might plausibly be argued that the essential and universal meaning of this ancient story can be grasped most profoundly only when the story is set free from any connection with an actual occurrence in time and space.

Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self - control» Since most would agree that Paul's writings are surely divine inspiration for the total concept of «mutual gratification» in that time was not entertained in the minds of most ancient cultures it was seen more so as a «chore» that women did for their husband so that he would not stray into adultery.

Thus there is an ultimate and most profound unity of all high religions, including ancient Buddhism, which, in spite of its apparent antimetaphysical agnosticism, reveals a mystic religion of redemption equal to the noblest forms of mysticism of all times and all religions.

Most of my time abroad has been spent on Crete studying the life and work of Nikos Kazantzakis (cf. Zorba the Greek, The Last Temptation of Christ, Saviors of God and Report to Greco) and the ancient Minoan culture.

In ancient Israel's most dismal, hopeless hours, prophetism continued to speak with honesty, realistically acknowledging the anguish of Israel's existence and the fearful perplexities therein for the prophet; and yet at the same time it joyfully affirmed Yahweh's reign and the ultimate success of his Word.

I surfed around on the web and found a couple etymological explanations, with the most plausible being based on a ritual performed by army officers in ancient times.

While most cultures have had access to sweeteners like honey since ancient times, sugar as we know it was first made from sugarcane in the Pacific Islands.

Unlike other «superfoods» on the market that cost a fortune - this ancient health tonic can be made right in your own kitchen with little time or money, and provide you with the same, if not more, benefits than the most expensive products available today.

The area of Valpolicella, one of the most prestigious wine - making regions in Italy, has been dedicated to winemaking since the ancient times.

So goodbye Wenger and thanks for the ancient history glory days but most of us, - pires and Ken, being dinosaur type exceptions on here and also the sweet, naive and ever water guzzling TY from Arsenal fan TV — prefer living in the here and now and looking forward to the near future, for we are all a long time dead, as our club has effectively been this last decade.

One of the most popular product is fenugreek, a spice that has been used since ancient times to increase a woman's milk supply.

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In ancient times, babywearing was used as a means of survival, but today it's widely acknowledged as one of the most natural ways to promote bonding between parent and child.

Charon's six most prominent craters were named for fictional explorers, including Dorothy who visited the fantastical land of Oz, time traveler Revati from the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata, and Nemo for the captain of the ship Nautilus in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

If most archaeological sites offer a snapshot of the ancient past, Tabun Cave provides a time - lapse video.

These may be submerged ancient shorelines cut during times of lower sea level, «the most recent of which occurred during the last glacial period, which ended about 19,000 years ago,» Chaytor said.

Most climate projections now end at 2300 at the latest, «because that's the time period most people are interested in,» says Marcott, a expert in glaciers and ancient climMost climate projections now end at 2300 at the latest, «because that's the time period most people are interested in,» says Marcott, a expert in glaciers and ancient climmost people are interested in,» says Marcott, a expert in glaciers and ancient climate.

IF THEY exist at all, most unglazed clay objects from ancient times are now rubble, mere fragments of their former glory.

Next time you catch a cold, consider this as your sinuses clog and your eyes burn: the viruses now tormenting you may be living fossils that carry molecular remnants of some of the most ancient life forms on the planet.

The discovery, reported in the current issue of Nature Communications, logs a number of firsts: the first record of ancient tsunami activity found in a sea cave; the first record for such a long time period in the Indian Ocean; and the most pristine record of tsunamis anywhere in the world.

Although unknown to most Western scholars, this ancient civilization dates back 4,000 years — to the time when the first great societies along the Nile, Tigris - Euphrates, Indus, and Yellow rivers were flourishing.

Despite their violence, very little is known about silicic eruptions and most knowledge about them comes from ancient rock records, which lack details such as the timing, duration, source, and water depth of the events.

«Receptors processing sensations from our skin are phylogenetically the most ancient, but far from being primitive they have had time to evolve extraordinarily subtle strategies for discerning surfaces — whether a lover's caress or a tickle or the raw tactile feel of metal, wood, paper, etc..

Since micro-organisms represented most of life on Earth for most of the time that life has existed — billions of years, in fact — the most ancient and prevalent form of evolution probably wasn't Darwinian at all, Woese and Goldenfeld say.

The team, conducting a fairly routine hunt for ancient, massive black holes, was surprised to find one with a mass of more than 7 billion times our Sun making it among the most massive black holes ever discovered.

The fossils form such a neatly graded series, getting less and less ape - like and more and more human as they get closer in time to the present, that the most earnest creationist can do little more than muddy the waters by inflating and distorting the existence of points of disagreement between specialists, or trying to revive long since discredited Homo sapiens specimens once claimed to have been from extremely ancient deposits.

«They have worked 16 times longer than planned, driven 20 times farther than planned, and, most important, found diverse geological records of the effects of water in ancient Martian environments,» he said.

We first calibrated the whole - exome phylogeny using the time to the most recent common ancestor (TMRCA) of Equus (donkey vs. horses) at 4.0 — 4.5 Mya (9) and tip dates for ancient samples, assuming that the combined evolution of protein - coding genes follows a molecular clock (Fig. 2A).

In a fascinating set of projects we will look at the smallest scales and back in time, probing the mineralogy and composition of micron - sized grains in ancient meteorites using the most sophisticated microscopic techniques, to explore the history of volatiles and organics in planetary building blocks at the time when the Solar System was young.

But ancient - DNA sequencing is beginning to shed some light on the issue.11 For example, by comparing a human HAR sequence with the HAR sequence of an archaic hominin, researchers can estimate if the HAR mutated before, after, or during the time period of our common ancestor.12 This approach has revealed that the rate at which HAR mutations emerged was slightly higher before we split from Neanderthals and Denisovans.3, 13 As a result, most HAR mutations are millions of years old and shared with these extinct hominins (but not with chimpanzees).

«It would be hard to dispute that this is the single most information - rich object that has been uncovered by archaeologists from ancient times.»

From the rest wavelength of the Lyman - alpha break (121.6 nm), the spectroscopic redshift of GRB 000131 was then determined to be 4.500 + / - 0.015, corresponding to a travel time of more than 90 percent of the age of the Universe and making GRB 000131 the most ancient and remote gamma - ray burst detected at the time — for which its age and distance could be calculated (Andersen et al, 2000).