Sentences with phrase «n't teach the story»

NIntendo can't teach the story of Super Mario as history.

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This particular story is especially useful, not because it teaches young officers how to command a boarding party but rather because it gets straight at two of the marines» most closely held beliefs.

It's a world away from the experience of most of America's aspiring entrepreneurs, but Jackley says that this story still has a profound lesson to teach them This Ugandan entrepreneur demonstrates that «you really don't need to wait to get started.

BUILDING ON BEDROCK: What Sam Walton, Walt Disney, and Other Great Self - Made Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us About Building Valuable Companies For founders and investors — based upon research, and told through the stories of famous and not - so - famous American entrepreneurs.

This whole story is about race and for you, the author to ask us to follow in his teachings and not his color?

That is why it is taught in school and the religios story is not.

But then, of course, the seminary's opponents would use similar reasoning to suggest that the church's public teaching must regard the Jonah story as a straightforward historical account, and soon no distinction at all would be possible between what the Bible records and what it teaches, what is central to the faith and what is not.

The origin stories teach theology, not cosmology, geology or anthropology.

This story is simply something that the church has no teachings, or story, these things are not taught or discussed at church as the church has no political agenda presented from the pulpit, in classes or meetings.

Satan will get churches to tell the pastor that people don't want to hear the Bible taught any more, and so if he could just tell them a bunch of stories, that would be better.

A friend of mine who teaches on the collegiate level recently told me, «I don't meet any young adults who've grown up in the church lacking at least one story of spiritual abuse.»

'' I have no idea what Bell is trying to prove; but the lost of income» — it doesn't make a lot of sense for a man of no faith to teach at; Christian schools... «his wife» — not related, read the story... «and potentially his home» - once again, related to his jobs at Christian schools.

And so the story teaches us something about how to look for such things — if not necessarily to know when we have found them — and to know what kinds of secrets are worth pursuing.

The gospel was identified not with a teaching or a «religious» experience but with an action or history played out in the particular stories of individuals.

I would have been relegated to duties in the home or to the second story balcony where most likely I would not have benefited in any way from teaching which I could not see or hear (or offer).

But I do not take what the bible says word for word just more as a guide book / story book that teaches the good and bad.

There was a story of a woman got fired from her teaching job at a Catholic school for being pregnant and not married.

actually you do nt have to prove the many deities or Gods that they really exist, because they really had existed in their times, They are part of the evolutionary process for us humans to transcend to higher consciousness.To simplify the analogy, when we were young and we are in the lower grade school, we were taught simple subjects not advance literatures but simple stories even mythicals, The same with religion, thousands of years ago when there was no science yet, primitive people had a religion, of course man made faiths to conform with their state of mind or intellect.But later atfter thousands of years we evolve into a more educated people and so new concept of God again was presented to them, another man made concept, and this go on and on, until a few thiousand years ago.monotheism, Judaism, christianity, islam, buddhism, etc also evolved, But with the accelerated evolution, these faith again is threatend with obsolesencs because of of scientific developments and education.In panthroteistic faith, the future religion needs to conform to evolutionary process, This proves that God is always there guiding the change.And it his will that made this a reality in history since the begining of the universe 13 billion years ago, and this will continue to exist until He will completely fulfill His will to infinity, Thats PANTHROTHEISM, the futue, man made religion under His guidance through scientifiic evoluition after the Bi Bang

The short version is: I don't think the Exodus did happen in historical time, but that doesn't at all detract from its powerful spiritual truth, or from the ways we've constituted our community through telling this story in the first person plural, and through embracing the teaching that the Exodus didn't just happen then but unfolds even now.

Their stories often suggest the appalling extent to which the church tends not simply to ignore sexual, physical, emotional and spiritual violence against women and children as a major crisis, but actually to provide theological justification for this violence in its teachings about male headship, women's subordination, and the sinful character of sexuality.

I would just love to wrap up this story by telling you that we became good friends and now she's teaching me how to crotchet socks and I'm teaching her how to... shop online... But we aren't friends and we likely never will be.

Obviously, we can not use the story by itself to teach a moral lesson, unless we want to say that Joseph did the right thing without regard for his own welfare.

I went to Catholic school 40 years ago and we were taught at that time in evolution and that the story of Adam and Eve was made up (like a parable) to teach, but wasn't actually true.

The combination of the poetic form in which many of Jesus» sayings were cast, the vitality of his utterance, and the wonder and marvel of his deeds had caused these teachings and stories to be repeated over and over, not only privately, but also in the services and instruction of the churches.

His story, and that of other Chinese Indonesian Christians, has much to teach us as we consider whether or not to embrace Rod Dreher's Benedict Option (retreat in order to rebuild), or instead seek positive solutions to social problems in an America that judges us on the wrong side of history.

Same BS I was taught in Catholic school and is the reason I, and many others, reject christianity not ony as being true, but as a moral story.

We should teach both sides of the story, we shouldn't be narrowed into one was of thinking.

Parents should not be teaching their kids fairy tales and creating special schools for their special make believe stories is what is dragging this country down the tubes.

Don't you assume that the Hindus, Native - Americans and everyone else who believes in a different creation story teaches those stories in their separate religious / cultural classes?

First, it is plain that the empty tomb was not the originating factor since careful critical study of the material found at the end of all four Gospels makes it clear that the stories about the empty tomb are more in the category of Christian apologetic — however honestly believed and taught at the time when the Gospels were compiled from earlier oral tradition — than in that of historical reporting.

If I wrote a story about a super hero, and got others to write about said super hero, and we kept our teachings our story very consistent, that wouldn't make it any more true.

Since the teachings of christ are interpreted and recorded by those other than christ the teachings themselves are not actually those of christ which in turn cause those teachings to be imperfect as they are only stories based on what may have actually happened.

The parable in barrenmind's post (7:01 pm) could be quite easily be read as the story of men who have rejected different elements of the teachings of God, yet have not given up faith.

Marcus could read and write — though he could not write well, and had no inclinations to authorship, even in that publishing center of the western Mediterranean in the days of Nero — and so, as one of the few in the local congregation of Christians who could both read and write, he was commissioned to put together in his free time — probably late evenings, after the assembly of the Christians had broken up — the fragmentary translations of narratives from the story of Jesus and his teaching which were in circulation in the Roman church.

This is not a story likely to teach virtue or gratitude to a child when young.

I don't know what the whole story will be, but I wonder if they are open to having all religions taught in school (Islam, Hindu, Wicca and so forth)?

that's not the way they taught it when I was in school... the story then was we evolved from apes... you have to keep changing it cause the lie don't fit the proof... the skin on my body heals not evolves... are you sure atheists are as smart as you all say.

It is easy to forget that there are millions of individual Christian life stories going on in the world, and not all of them are as some teach; an obedient Christian's life will be healthy and wealthy in things.

You can choose to believe the stories written about him in the Gospel or not, but there is historical basis for his life and teachings.

For Catholics (and Orthodox) the story is that Christ did not leave a book, it left a community, Church, that taught his teaching through oral tradition.

Even Paul didn't teach a physical Jesus; the stories of a physical Jesus came AFTER the writings of Paul.

Are you teaching them that the bible story of creation is not accurate?

I think drama and story are crucial components for helping us move to that kind of approach, but I also do not think that all forms of study, teaching (although more dialogical), and research all go out the window.

But if you have the Story firmly in your head, with a good grasp of various biblical ways of telling it, what you teach by opportunity will, over time, exhibit a visible coherence that it wouldn't otherwise have.

After a while, God told Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac on an alter because either God was nervous that Abraham was not faithful or Abraham needed to be taught to give everything to God (it's hard to tell from the story!).

Teaching atheism is like teaching that the Earth doesn't exist and teaching evolution is like teaching people that Transformers is a truTeaching atheism is like teaching that the Earth doesn't exist and teaching evolution is like teaching people that Transformers is a truteaching that the Earth doesn't exist and teaching evolution is like teaching people that Transformers is a truteaching evolution is like teaching people that Transformers is a truteaching people that Transformers is a true story.

What spoke to me through this story, is how much this pastor knew the people in his church (you and I have the same definition of church, however I'm using the word here as it applies to this group of people I feel the problem in many churches today (and why dialogue during sermons wouldn't go over well) is that the pastors do not take the time to invest in the people they are trying to teach.

Reminds me of the story of the Sunday School teacher, who, after teaching about the self - righteous Pharisee who looked down on the tax collector, finished by praying «Thank you God that we're not like that self - righteous Pharisee.»

Some Christians acknowledge the distinction between the Gospel stories and the history behind them and argue that the starting point for Christian theology is not the faith of the New Testament but the teaching and ministry of Jesus.

Even when I taught a course at Vanderbilt University divinity school in 1971 called «Forms of Religious Reflection,» in which we looked at the limitations and possibilities for religious reflection of various literary genres (parables, autobiographies, novels, poems, etc.), I did not know that a movement was aborning concerned with story and autobiography in theological reflection — a movement of which I was soon to feel very much a part.