Sentences with phrase «not written centuries»

Actually, ask any theologian and they will tell you how historically the written accounts of those «events» were not written centuries after the life of Jesus, but shortly after.

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Poet Emily Dickinson nailed it more than a century ago when she wrote, «They might not need me — yet they might — I'll let my Heart be just in sight — A smile so small as mine might be precisely their necessity.»

Most of this research backs what happiness gurus have been telling us since before R. H. Tawney wrote about The Acquisitive Society a century ago: that the constant pursuit of more and better stuff — higher salaries, privilege and the baubles that accompany success — doesn't result in increased happiness.

«When we look carefully at the twentieth century,» Columbia University professor Wu writes, «we soon find that the Internet wasn't the first information technology supposed to have changed everything forever.»

«If this misguided policy is not reversed,» the authors wrote, «America is at risk of losing its leadership position in one of its most important sectors, one that will shape the world in the twenty - first century.

It's always a risk writing about a deal before it is official: CNBC reported a month ago that Disney was in talks to acquire many of 21st Century Fox's assets, including its eponymous movie studio, TV production company, cable channels, and international assets (but not the Fox broadcast network, Fox News, FS1 — Fox's sports channel — and Fox Business).

By LEWIS JOHNSON — Co-Chief Investment Officer March 23, 2017 When Homer wrote «The Odyssey» around the 8th Century B.C., he couldn't have known that his epic poem held an important investment lesson.

Since Aristotle and Plato wrote extensively on ethics in the 4th century BCE during an era of «godlessness» in Ancient Greece, why weren't THOSE the Last Days?

Authorship of John — many if not most NT scholars believe that John nor one of 12 wrote John; James — most agree not authored by James, and sometime in 2nd century AD; Peter — a mystery — some think that it could have been an early template for the other gospels; Luke — a mystery; Mark — finally it seems like we really might have another original author here — or were he and later Paul just using a very early Peter story?

The following verses are going to prove to you or anyone, anywhere, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the information contained in the Quran had to have come from the creator of universe on account of the scientific details that couldn't have been available to a man who could neither write or read in 7th century Arabia.

The following verses are not only going to make you sound like a fool, but also prove to you or anyone, anywhere, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the information contained in the Quran had to have come from the creator of universe on account of the scientific details that couldn't have been available to a man who could neither write or read in 7th century Arabia.

Worry about today, not what someone may have written centuries ago.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Seriously, a scrap of papyrus is somehow taken this seriously, but the fact that no first century historian wrote of Jesus, that Jesus himself left no writings, that Jesus left no Physical evidence of his existence, those don't matter, right?

Not until the last - written book in the Hebrew Bible» the Book of Daniel, from the second century b.c.» do we find a biblical affirmation that God will raise the dead to eternal life.

This coptic writing was not written and approved by the Romans like the New Testament was in the 3rd and 4th century.

In the century just past, a whole host of great thinkers and writers (mostly Catholic, but not all of them) wrote on the proper way to live.

How does one burn copies that are not in written format in the 6 - 7th century?

Not so, writes Dayton's Bill Portier, in a careful study of four men, now largely forgotten, who loomed large in the affairs of the Church in America in the first half of the early twentieth century.

Not «Let us our songs employ,» or «Let all their songs employ,» but men.That's how Isaac Watts wrote it back in the eighteenth century, when he wrote Joy to the World.This line gets changed from «men» to «us» or....

I suppose you are suggesting the bible is outdate, written by men thousands of years ago and doesn't apply to the 21st century?

No one said it better than Sam Harris, but I've also wondered why the Bible seems to have been written by a scribe in the 1st Century and not inspired by the word of an all - knowing and omni - present deity.

He said that since the play was written by monks in a seventeenth - century monastery, it was inconceivable that the authors could have harbored anti-Semitic feelings, and he pointed out that the text has not been revised since 1860.

«David Wells of the World Pentecostal Fellowship confessed that too often evangelicals did not understand or appreciate historical churches, their centuries - old stand for Christ, and their presence in countries in which their witness and pastoral ministry has been dominant,» Stiller wrote.

«Paul is still my apostle,» he writes, «but he does not (and did not in the first century) have to be inerrant in every matter.»

Take 10 minutes from patting yourself on the back and take a look at my blog / websites, and / or my comments on other threads here, and you'll be quickly disabused of the notion that I treat the Scriptures «as though they are written directly to 20th Century A.D. Americans» (For what it's worth, I'm not American, so why would I do such a thing).

In fact the opposite is true, for they are willing to trust God only if these millions of words written over a period of centuries from two to three thousand years ago are all literally true, whereas my faith in God does not depend on this.

Yet place all these miracle stories in the pre-scientific Roman Empire circa 1st century CE attested to by copies of copies of copies of discrepant manuscripts (written not by eyewitnesses) and somehow they become valid?

it was a collection of oral and written tales form the area that the people who wrote it hoped would teach morals to jewish children.as the pagans that lived around them did not have theytype that the first century jews would have aproved of.

Second, Flavius Joseph, a first century Jewish writer (remember, the Jews didn't believe Christ was the Messiah, this would have been easier to prove if Christ had never existed) wrote about Jesus.

One can not write about psychiatry without an examination of the work of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung in the 20th century.

Centuries earlier the psalmist and later the writer of II Peter wrote, «Do not be ignorant of this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as one day» (3:8).

In «The Ethics of Immigration: An Exchange» (May 2008), Michael Scaperlanda gave himself away when he wrote of his migrant acquaintances that «this family didn't cross the border; the border had crossed the family, in the nineteenth century.»

A poet writing in the twentieth century A.D. may be a puny figure compared with the titanic stature of a Greek dramatist five centuries before Christ, and ethical insight can not be graded on the basis of the calendar.

During the nineteenth century, a number of writers tried to write historical biographies of Jesus, which, as we have seen, was not the purpose of the evangelists.

St. Augustine, writing in the fifth century, confesses the ugliness of his life not to normalize it but rather to show that, in spite of our ugliness, there is hope for redemption.

Steve... I think we're floggin» a dead horse here, but for what it's worth, understand that I'm not trying to convince you to think like I do, rather I wd hope that room wd be made for many theological differences.To think discuss and debate theology is well supported by the New Testament and history, and is perfectly within the bounds of what it means to engage our minds with the subject at hand.Theologians and biblical scholars have done this very thing for centuries, revealing a plethora of opinion on the evolving world of biblical studies.Many capable authors have written and debated the common themes as well as the differences between Paul, John, Jesus, the synoptics, etc..

Writing in The Christian Century nearly two decades ago, educator Richard Baer noted: «So far the church has not sufficiently grasped the nature of the present [ecological] crisis, has not understood how powerfully dehumanizing is man's wanton exploitation of his natural environment, has not appreciated the degree to which man - made ugliness and the fouling of natural beauty are corroding man's mind and spirit» («Land Misuse: A Theological Concern,» October 12, 1966, p. 1240).

Quoting Jeremy Bentham, the late eighteenth - century utilitarian philosopher, Singer writes: «the question is not, Can they reason?

You know as well as I do that the current accepted canon is not what has always been accepted and there are dozens of 1 century letters and books that were written and included and then removed by the Church in the 2nd and 3rd centuries.

It is not the greatest crisis for the Church since the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century, as one columnist has written.

Why can't I JUST believe perposterous stories written by MEN centuries ago?

A monument to the importance of that achievement for the history of the Slavs is the very alphabet in which most Slavs write, which is called Cyrillic, in honor of Saint Cyril, the ninth - century «apostle to the Slavs,» who, with his brother Methodius, is traditionally given credit for having invented it... Not only among the Slavs in the ninth century, but also among the other so - called heathen in the 19th century, the two fundamental elements of missionary culture for more than a millennium have therefore been the translation of the Bible, especially of the New Testament, and education in the missionary schools.

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

A brief blog entry posted on the website of the Christian Century last month stated that Wall's presence on the Christian Century's masthead is «not an endorsement» of what he writes elsewhere.

William Cate has written that «Christian unity occurs at points of interchurch contact and relationship: it is not the creation of an ecumenical structure...» («Ecumenism Surges in Local Churches,» The Christian Century [March 14, 1984], p. 268).

Following the bible, is like following directions written centuries ago by some person helping someone else get from Jerusalem to Damascus, they don't work if you're going from New York to Jersey, or most other places today.

Such a view was accepted by Justin and Irenaeus in the later second century, although in the third century Dionysius, bishop of Alexandria, attempted to minimize the authority of the book by proving that since John son of Zebedee wrote the gospel ascribed to him, he can not have written the book of Revelation, since the two writings employ different ideas, styles and vocabularies.

Evangelicals stand in continuity with the Great Tradition of Christian believing, confessing, worshiping and acting through the centuries, while not discounting the many local histories that must be written to give a full account of Christian communities in any given era.

Even in the second century, a hundred years and more after the time of Jesus, there were doubtless still in circulation oral accounts of incidents in his life and quotations of his teachings which had not until then been committed to writing.