Sentences with phrase «not historical persons»

There were Serapis, Isis, Mithra, Adonis, Demeter, and many more — all of them addressed as Lord or by some similar title and worshiped as divine, But these were not historical persons actually remembered.

the notion that Jesus wasn't an historical person, but just a rehash of earlier myths, commits the fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore because of it).

@Chad «no serious scholar buys into that nonsense: The Christ myth theory (also known as Jesus mythicism, the Jesus myth theory and the nonexistence hypothesis) is the idea that Jesus of Nazareth was not a historical person, but is a fictional or mythological character created by the early Christian community.

Not exact matches

My point here is this seasoned engineer should not have had a five - figure salary, even if it made sense in a historical context (she had joined as a very junior person, consistent with prior salary).

«There will always be people who don't like it, especially the ones who were just entitled to be there for historical reasons, the ones who were not performing,» says Luiz Edmond, chief of AB.

Looking for an outstanding first - person shooter with historical context not named Call of Duty?

The campaign was able to do this not just by giving volunteers online scripts and a list of phone numbers, but also by giving people feedback through real - time and historical data, showing them the number of calls they made that day, week, month or even during the course of the entire year.

While the Company considers these historical estimates to be relevant to investors as it may indicate the presence of mineralization, a qualified person for the Company has not done sufficient work to classify the historical estimates as current mineral resources as defined by NI 43 - 101 and the Company is not treating these historical estimate as a current mineral resource.

And once again, I think people make wild forecasts that are not based on any fact or data or historical patterns.

Know what training is in process, who has completed it, who hasn't, and view all historical data to ensure the right 5 people received proper training.

It is telling that people who feel competent to assert, with no doubt, that there is no God can not get simple historical facts straight.

The OT is an apocyphal history of the Semitic people and the NT is a morality tale — mythologized historical fiction.

We should not all cower at the small group of atheists and remove a historical item like this just because of a few people who are offended.

For population science was not only failing to help people, Connelly argues, but also actively harming some of them — and in a way that summoned some of the baser episodes of recent historical memory:

The historical Jesus was an Arabic person, and odds are, was NOT a European looking fellow.

The one thing I can't tolerate is to hear people make ridiculous statements that obviously deny historical fact.

If you were raised to believe that such a person was real and that the Bible contained theological and historical truth, it would be extremely difficult to NOT interpret things from within that framework.

Point of fact — Whether you believe Jesus was divine or not, he was a historical person who did exist.

This joint proclamation of certain truths about the nature of the human person and human community as created historical realities can not be accomplished, however, in a didactic way.

For the next generation» if not for young people today» Auschwitz will be invoked with all the historical resonance of Appomattox.

It's not just the biblical, historical or theological issues that people have, but the integrity issues and the social and spiritual problems with the church that so many people struggle with.

Sorry, but a cross is a cross, and you may say it is historical and, yes, it is - it is the historical symbol of Christianity, and many people killed in 9/11 were not Christian.

The historical experience of the technocracy by the people is not esoteric and abstract knowledge, but it is concrete and bodily experience of the people, individually and collectively.

They simply do not want to be given evidence of the fact that Jesus was a real, historical person.

They investigate its claims and find that the church can not prove anything it says about Jesus ever being a real historical person.

The Above stories are not islated stories, but they are closely inter-connected; and therefore, it is our belief and assumption that the stories of the people reveal the historical reality of the world, as they experience them.

Personally, I think that the context includes not only where in Scripture the passages are from (including rhetorical function, narrative position, etc.) and the historical - cultural background, but also the context of the person using the quote.

The example of Jesus is so strong, that even people who do not believe in God, or who think that Jesus is a figment of historical imagination, are still inspired by the example of Jesus to live with more love toward others.

The person has not fared especially well at the hands of modern attempts to write about history, which have generally sought to locate historical explanations in the workings of large structures, impersonal forces, and social groups rather than the vagaries and razor - edged contingencies of individual character and agency.

It also gives rise to her insistence that we must respect the «historical integrity and moral autonomy» of Jesus, Paul, and the evangelists as people of their own time and place, concerned with issues (such as purity regulations) that do not concern us, and unaware of our concerns as modern Christians or Jews.

Even if you're not religious, suggesting people stop reading the Bible seems absurd, even from a historical and sociological perspective.

The people in parables were not necessarily meant to be historical people before the parables could be considered to be true.

Hence there arises what I think is one of the major reasons why the miraculous birth recorded in Matthew and Luke should not be regarded as a historical fact but as a midrashic or mythical way of expressing the truth that the person of Christ can not be understood exclusively within the dimension of humanity, but belongs also to the divine dimension.

A new quest can not verify the truth of the kerygma, that this person actually lived out of transcendence and actually makes transcendence available to me in my historical existence.

All the text tells us is that there is an express will of God in historical events for every people, whether it is a believing people or not.

The people whose interpretations of experience we are studying are not Trobiand Islanders, but Jews of the first - century Mediterranean world; to understand how they interpret their lives, we need to learn as much as possible about the properly historical realities within which they lived: the social and symbolic worlds of Roman rule, Hellenistic culture, and a variegated Judaism.

«But splitting up is the historical way of mankind, and the unsplit persons can not do anything more than raise man to a higher level on which he may thereafter follow his course.»

We simply do not know what the doctrines of atonement, incarnation and redemption mean until we understand what they mean for persons shaped by this historical milieu.

Because your beliefs aren't based on facts, the bible has been shown not to be an historical document yet you are going to use it to condemn people that the experts of today have proven are just as normal as YOU!

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.

Now human nature demands democracy at least from a certain historical phase of man's development onwards, hence it can not be a matter of indifference to the Church, which consists of persons making legitimate demands for freedom and active cooperation, at least in the present state of her development.

A story about a magical character written decades after he supposedly died is not historical evidence of a non magical person existing.

Until the gospel actually enters the historical situation of a certain person, a non-Christian religion contains not only elements of a natural knowledge of God mixed with depravation caused by original sin and human elements, but also supernatural elements of grace.

This person is merely an historical figure who was a Rabbi so what difference does it make whether he was married or not?

And, it may be added, the historical faith of the church involves our being able not only to say, «Jesus was an actual historical person,» but also to affirm, «He was a supremely great, a uniquely significant person.»

Christ is not merely an historical figure that we read about, a person from the past to whom we make intellectual assent.

I think most people do not realize that, unlike all other historical figures we believe in, there was not one contemporary mention of Jesus.

aaaaaan then by historical account, after the disciples left their homes, gave all they had and hung out with poor people «to keep their good economic standing,» cried in joy from beatings because they could serve Christ and not the world, and all of the twelve but one were beaten thoroughly and executed, becuase the one who lived was placed in boiling oil and WOULD NOT DIE in front of thousands of viewers... «tooooo keep their «good economic standing?»&raqnot the world, and all of the twelve but one were beaten thoroughly and executed, becuase the one who lived was placed in boiling oil and WOULD NOT DIE in front of thousands of viewers... «tooooo keep their «good economic standing?»&raqNOT DIE in front of thousands of viewers... «tooooo keep their «good economic standing?»»

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

From what has been urged above we see that God's activity in the world is not confined to the historical person of Jesus Christ; incarnation is «the manner and the mode,» in Cardinal Bérulle's words, of all God's working in the world, which we find vividly disclosed in «the Galilean vision.