Sentences with phrase «of ancient document»

Some people treat the book as though it were some kind of ancient document of magical formulas.

you proclaim, with the support of an ancient document, that homosexuality is a sin.

Just some thoughts: David - re: with the support of an ancient document, So the Bible is an invalid standard based on it's age?

----- I will not bore you with all of the proofs such as --- the # of ancient documents of the Bible, of its contemporary historians, archeology, etc, verses other religions.

Historical criticism is the process by which modern scholars examine the text of ancient documents and try to determine when they were truly written and whether or not they were authored by the person whose name is on the document.

The preacher should not look upon these disciplines as otherwise, for the Bible as a collection of ancient documents surely deserves the compliment of objective examination as much as other literature.

With that in mind, I have noticed that many, if not most new converts can have, in all appearances, a genuine spiritual experience before any high doctrine of «scriptural authority ever enters their head.Now, some may say that just how it works, first you crawl, then you walk... baby food, then the meat, but this is my point... the world is full of «spiritual meatheads»... there are so many believers who wdn't know an original thought, unless of course, they cd find the chapter and verse to unequivocally support it.Is it so difficult to comprehend how a collection of ancient documents may not be the final, complete and indisputable Word of God, but mere human artifacts, sometimes godly, sometimes not, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering.?

Finally, we learn from Robert Langdon, the novel's hero, that the so - called Priory of Sion's aim has been to present «to the world thousands of ancient documents as scientific evidence that the New Testament is false testimony» (451).

His studies of ancient documents revealed that the Aztecs were familiar with smallpox, perhaps even before Cortés arrived.

Not exact matches

This document is like an old pair of khakis you wear into the office on Saturdays or that one ancient delivery truck that never seems to break down.

This document is like an old pair of khakis you wear to the office on Saturdays or that one ancient delivery truck that never seems to break down.

But while Antioch did have problems with one of the documents, and while it is also concerned that the council not take any measures that would break pan-Orthodox unanimity, the key to its non-participation is the fact that the Patriarchate of Antioch is currently not in communion with another ancient apostolic Orthodox see, that of Jerusalem.

On Luther's side, the final break with the Church authorities came in the wake of Leo X's bull of November 1518; in that document, as Luther saw it, Leo arrogated to himself the power of defining Church teaching without accountability to Scripture, the Fathers, or the ancient canons.

Yet the next sentence of the 1985 document quotes John Paul II: «The permanence of Israel (while so many ancient peoples have disappeared without trace) is a historic fact and a sign to be interpreted within God's design....

Scientists have claimed that they have found illustrations for ancient home remedies in a document that contained the first known copy of the gospels in Arabic.

Some folks think reason wins the day, some think their favorite exegesis of some ancient holy document should be the basis.

Whether the masses are innocent is, of course, not a matter that can be documented, but I have observed in conversation with many spectators tenacious conviction that the Passion Play is (a) a great work of religious art or (b) the work of sincere peasant folk bent only on fulfilling an ancient vow.

Then, instead of reading like the «Around Home» section or the obituary column of a small - town newspaper, it could have provided a more worthy document of the life and times of the ancient world, a register of the designs and deeds of the truly great men and nations of the ancient Near East.

This has been a time, finally, when the literary analysis of ancient literature has become a very significant force within the field, insisting that documents do not exist only to provide historical information, but are to be appropriated as complex works of art as well as witnesses to and interpretations of religious experiences and convictions.

For those who do not read ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, we must study the research and opinions of biblical scholars who do and who have access to the biblical source documents.

The bible is a collection of documents spread over a thousand years that itself is over 2,000 years old from an ancient culture no longer extant, and therefore should not be solely relied upon for a rule book for modern ethics.»

Further, the allusion to the practice of not fasting during a wedding is an allusion to a well - documented ancient Jewish practice of freeing wedding participants, including the guests, from religious obligations during the seven days of the wedding celebrations (References in Billerbeck, Kommentar I, p. 506.)

Especially when we understand it in light of its historical and cultural contexts (which is the only way to read an ancient document like the Bible).

Additionally, it has been well documented that a monotheistic conception of ultimate reality is indigenous to almost all of traditional African culture, and that it is highly probable that traditional African theism, like Judeo - Christian and Islamic theism, has its historical genesis in the monotheism of a black pharaoh of ancient Egypt — Iknaton ---- who was the first person known to have popularized the religious conviction that there is one, and only one, god.

Ever since the principles of historical criticism have been applied to ancient documents the criticism of the Old and New Testaments has never been silent.

Our earliest copies of those documents are more plentiful and closer to the time of Jesus than the histories of many major figures of the ancient world (whom the general public seem to have no problem believing in).

Perhaps we shall have to await a third Vatican council wherein still yet another liturgical document will fully address the liturgical wisdom and beauty of Rome's ancient Eastern brothers in the faith.

To those theologians who contend that the life and resurrection of Jesus is one of the most documented events in ancient history, both in scripture and recorded history, Berger asks them to produce «one single police report» from a nonpartisan source that wasn't inserted into the text far after the fact!

«A wide range of scientific testing indicates that a papyrus fragment containing the words, «Jesus said to them, my wife» is an ancient document, dating between the sixth to ninth centuries CE,» Harvard Divinity School said in a statement.

It is important to note that, in the last resort, the truth of the claim that Jesus is risen is to be tested primarily by the examination of contemporary Christian experience rather than by research in ancient documents.

It is significant that interpreters, both of the Old and the New Testaments, have been able to determine much more clearly and precisely the «Eigenart» of these documents and their views of God, world, and men on the basis of studies in the religions of the ancient Near East than could be done before the discoveries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

and then the last post I read to be David saying, «The fact is that the bible is a collection of ancient timed documents written by men».

There is an ancient Christian theological document miscalled «the Athanasian Creed» (it had nothing to do with Athanasius himself but was evidently the work of Hilary of Poitier and should be given its proper name of Quicumque Vult) that can help us here.

The fact is that the bible is a collection of ancient timed documents written by men.

Whatever fault we may find with that document in other respects — and Anglicans may be grateful that it is no longer commonly said, as ancient prayer books required, at public worship on certain great festivals of the Christian year — it gives us the right understanding of this triunitarian conception of God when it affirms «This is the Catholic faith: that we worship Godhead in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity.»

Implied, of course, in this as in all study is the bringing to the material all one's faculties: questioning, discussing, applying all available tools for prying open the mysteries in the ancient documents.

Seales» ability to decode CT scans of ancient carbonized texts may open the door to recovering many more ancient documents, including an entire library of a Roman villa destroyed in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 73 A.D., as well as discarded papyrus documents used to create Egyptian mummy casings.

An American poet (F. Bland Tucker) has translated part of the ancient Christian document known as the Epistle to Diognetus, using these words: «He [God] came to win men by good - will, for force is not of God.»

I really don't care what the bible says about it because, with all due respect to the bible (and I mean that sincerely)... it is an ancient collection of documents composed from an ancient mentality in which hell made perfect sense.

It is increasingly clear that Deuteronomy and the Priestly writings contain at least some material much older than is indicated by the usual dating of the documents.9 Increasingly, too, it would appear that scholars are disposed to accept the substantial reliability of the persistent tradition which sees Moses as a lawgiver.10 That law was an early and significant aspect of Israelite culture is further attested not only by ancient Near Eastern parallels but even more strikingly in the life, the work and the character of the first three great names in Israel's national history: Moses, Samuel and Elijah.

Just how reliable are English translations of ancient language documents with no reliable source material?

The sons of Noah in the plain of Shinar were documented in Genesis as the origin of the peoples in the land of ancient Sumer where Gilgamesh was King.

- Other ancient documents that state new and contradictory info about NT books, such as quoting parts of I Timothy and stating that the book was manufactured in Paul's style, but had nothing to do with Paul.

A major approach, known as the «higher criticism,» sought to apply to the Scriptures the methods employed in the study of other ancient documents.

Each sacred writing is supported by multiple source documents written in ancient versions of Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek.

But Genesis 12 - 50 is an incomparable and intimately informed historical document in its revelation of ancient Israel's inner life.

One of the oldest - documented greens, watercress dates back to ancient Greece, Rome, and Persia, where it was typically fed to soldiers to build their strength.

Although many moms didn't diaper their babies because the «trend» was to go naked, there are documents that suggest forms of diapers were used in ancient times.

As to the history of best disposable diapers, several ancient documents refer that special clothing was used for babies in the early stage of mankind.

We know how traders worked without enforceable laws of contract in the Middle Ages partly because of «an extraordinary cache of eleventh - century documents found in an ancient synagogue in old Cairo».