Sentences with phrase «of ancient records»

The term «guest star» is used in the context of ancient records, since the exact classification of an astronomical event in question is based on interpretations of old records, including inference, rather than on direct observations.

The Book of Abraham, which is described as «a translation of some ancient records that have fallen into our hands from the catacombs of Egypt, the writings of Abraham while he was in Egypt,» is also included.

Doubtless this pleasant young man soon found someone unacquainted with Joseph Smith's Testimony, that ubiquitous missionary tract which contains the official account of the prophet's visions and his discovery of the ancient record chronicling the lives and times, vicissitudes and final destruction of a Hebraic people whose patriarch immigrated to America with his family in 600 BC.

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So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».

Another important historical claim of the New Testament (the Crucifixion of Jesus) is acknowledged by ancient Jewish records.

He also likely suppressed the Ancient Olympic Games, since the last record of the Olympics being celebrated in ancient Rome is from 3Ancient Olympic Games, since the last record of the Olympics being celebrated in ancient Rome is from 3ancient Rome is from 393 A.D.

she may have prayed to know if the Book of Mormon is really a book of scripture a record written by ancient Prophets just like the Bible was.

God also commanded Joseph Smith to translate a record of the ancient inhabitants of the Americas, written by prophets who believed and taught the Savior Jesus Christ established his church under his direction.

no records) Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise.

The Romans were the most efficient record - keepers of the ancient world, but no record of this guy who was supposedly a rabble - rouser who was brought in front of the local governor (and his scribes, by extension).

But ever since the time of Jesus, it would be quite impossible to establish the legal or biological lineage of any pretender to David's throne, as all the ancient genealogical records were destroyed soon after that.

As one who accepted the strange vocation of being an apocalyptic seer, Blake was not in quest of a hidden but ancient mythical form; instead, he was engaged in a desperate search for a new mythical «system» by which he might record the dawning of a final movement of redemption in the arena of our totally fallen history.

Scientists confirm what ancient Roman writers record — weeks of rumblings and shakings preceded the actual explosion.

The Kojiki, Records of Ancient Matters, translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain.

The Records of Ancient Matters is then the oldest extant book of the Japanese people — indeed, according to W. G. Aston, it is the first book written in any Turanian tongue.3 Chamberlain regards it as the most important book in all the mass of Japanese literature.

The two books that are most basic are the Kojiki, or Records of Ancient Matters, and the Nihongi, or Chronicles of Japan.

The centuries - long drama of the religious journey of the people of Israel, as it is recorded in the Hebrew Bible, was a gigantic struggle with the immensely powerful «other» of the religious world of the ancient Near East.

Simply taking heed of recorded explanations of ancient idioms and orientalisms can already prevent much misunderstanding.

Heretofore in Israelite Yahwism the meaning of the present was taken primarily from the understanding and interpretation of the past, as, for example, in the ancient cultic confession of faith recorded in Deut.

In the case of the Hebrews it is simply a matter of historical record that this people, in some respects alone amongst all of the peoples of the ancient world, possessed religious insights which were destined to endure and to become formative principles of the mighty stream of western civilization.

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!

You might be surprised to find that there are actually more records related to this ancient prophets than most of the things you believe as history.

After antifederalist riots at Carlisle, Franklin returned to the scene with a satire against the rioters, comparing them to the ancient Jews who rejected a constitution handed down by God and «recorded in the most faithful of all Histories, the Holy Bible.»

Turbans have been worn by Cypriot men since ancient times and were recorded by Herodotus, during the Persian rule of the island, to demonstrate their «oriental» customs compared to Greeks.

It is evident from this long and tedious record that warfare was a way of life for the ancient people of God.

It is recorded by Plutarch that the death of Osiris was celebrated on the 17th of the month and his «discovery» or «resurrection» was on the 19th day (and this by ancient reckoning was the «third day») Lucian records that «at Byblos the faithful expect the resurrection of Adonis «on another day» 7.

Of course, folly in the tradition of ancient wisdom literature involves something more tragic than wasting energy trying to get into the Guinness Book of RecordOf course, folly in the tradition of ancient wisdom literature involves something more tragic than wasting energy trying to get into the Guinness Book of Recordof ancient wisdom literature involves something more tragic than wasting energy trying to get into the Guinness Book of Recordof Records.

Far more than simply a historical issue, the unique events leading to the Flood are a prerequisite to understanding the prophetic implications of our Lord's predictions regarding His Second Coming.1 (italics are mine) The strange events recorded in Genesis 6 were understood by the ancient rabbinical sources, as well as the Septuagint translators, as referring to fallen angels procreating weird hybrid offspring with human women - known as the «Nephilim.»

Like most things, this sort of perversity was already recorded in ancient Athens.

This is not the same Eshba'al who is referenced in 1 Chronicles 8:33, a son of King Saul, but that's the only other mention of the name in ancient records, both from the identical era.

The ideas on which the formula was based came out of ancient ancestral traditions; the logic of the doctrine was unassailable once the premises were granted; great prophets, such as Amos, Micah, and Jeremiah, held stoutly to it; and the formula was confirmed and solidified by the final rewriting of the Hebrew historical narratives to illustrate the thesis that every calamity in Israel's record had been a definite punishment for Israel's transgression.

Indeed, a major incentive to archaeological discovery lay precisely in the desire of students of the Bible to find in the records of this ancient culture some support for their faith in the Bible.

Here, as elsewhere behind the Biblical record, is visible the ancient background of the animistic ages, whose haunting ways of thinking persisted long after their specific forms had gone.

While we all take some inspiration from ancient paganisms, there are some groups who are deeply dedicated to studying the primary texts and archaeological records of their chosen cultural framework to try to make their paths as close to their spiritual ancestors as reasonably possible in the modern world — this includes the use of bonfires and occasionally animal sacrifice.

The wars fought by ancient Jews are corroborated in the records of the Assyrians and Babylonians.

In modern as well as ancient times we understand history to be more than the accurate record of event.

As to the times of Nestorian contact, Robin Boyd writes «We shall leave aside the question of the theology of the Indian Church in Nestorian times, as no recordings are available, noting merely that there is still a small Nestorian church in South India and that India has never ceased to be conscious of the ancient Nestorian associations.»

It should be added that Thucydides did not provide the only model known to ancient historians, in any event; Polybius, in the second century BC., severely criticized some of his predecessors for inventing speeches and said that the historian's business was to record what was actually said.

Indeed, their paranoid fascination with the fossil record (which includes, almost, surreally, a «creation museum» in Cleveland, Ohio where one can see biblical children playing with dinosaurs) Hell, American Indians, Australian Aboriginals, «true» Indians, Chinese, Mongols, Ja.panese, Sub-Saharan Africans and the Celts and other tribes of ancient Europe were speaking thousands of different languages thousands of years before the date creationist say the Tower of Babel occurred — and even well before the date they claim for the Garden of Eden!!!

-LSB-...] «Without any doubt it is a great thing to add innumerable other stars to the immense multitude of fixed stars that until today it has been possible to discern with the natural faculty of sight, and which exceed by more than ten times the number of ancient stars already recorded».

Erasmus recorded it as an ancient proverb in his Adagia, although the earliest known instance is in the Alexandreis, a 12th - century Latin epic poem by Walter of Châtillon.

One who loves ancient Greece turns back in days like these to the fifth century B. C. Man was there presented with one of the supreme chances that history records.

Salt has been known for centuries for its healing properties, both mentioned in the Bible and in several records of ancient medicine.

While archaeobotanists and archaeologists today have a much clearer picture of the range of foods used by ancient peoples of Mesoamerica in their daily subsistence and dietary practices, the information on the nature, extent, structure, and timing of chili pepper use or consumption in the archaeological record remains scant.

In prestige event of a record year, the ancient and aristocratic sport of horsemanship comes to its climax in New York's Madison Square Garden

Ancient Title shipped East from California in July, bringing with him an entourage of fascinating people and a record of nine stakes victories.

If anyone out there remembers some of our ancient Cal - Hi Sports newsletters from the 1980s or 1990s, they'll recall that founder and record book compiler Nelson Tennis (my uncle, who died in 2004) did a short series of comments he called «Random Remarks.»

It has been recorded all the way back to Ancient Egyptian times as a remedy for a wide variety of ailments, including the following:

Did you know that in the ancient civilizations of Babylon, Egypt and China, they have found records of exorcisms performed on women in childbirth?

Wickes hypothesizes that there is no record of ancient writings about substitute feeding habits as there was no proper advices to be given about the nature and composition of the feed.