Sentences with phrase «of ancient religions»

Along with national independence, there was also the revival of ancient religions of these people, such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam.

Yet, missionary activity has been at least a factor in the renewal of the ancient religions of Asia and some missionary scholars helped to make knowledge of these faiths available in European languages.

But if enough time is not available, a basic course could be worked out on a typological basis in which one primitive cult, one of the ancient religions of the Near East and the two great competitors of Christianity — Islam and Buddhism — could be dealt with.

Some of them rival The Da Vinci Code in their passion for conspiracy and the shallowness of their historical knowledge, not just of the New Testament and early Christianity, but of ancient religions generally and, even more broadly, the ancient world.

It was one of thousands of ancient religions that tried to explain the unexplainable and give people comfort that there was someone out there looking out for them.

In Jesus of Nazareth we find the true successor to the prophets of Israel, whose concern for the common man, and whose unconcern for the forms of ancient religion, He not only shared, but took to their logical conclusion.

The Renaissance and the Reformation reversed this long process which had led to the resurgence of ancient religion in a Christian dress, and they made way for the emergence of the new world with its renewed emphasis on the human scene.

If God loves someone, he won't let their eternal fate rest on their choice of ancient religion (or on their choice to use their capacity for reason, and choose no religion at all).

To tell children that the god of ancient religion (s) is a real being is tantamount to child abuse.

It is important as revealing also the character of the people, of government to some extent, of their ancient religion, and very revealing indeed as to their moral ideals.

Like past God of War games, it takes players on a Cliff's Notes tour of an ancient religion, with Norse mythology taking over this time for the Greek pantheon of its predecessors.

Not exact matches

Christian Communion is vampiric, The Great Rite is just using other people to get one's jollies, tell me a religion (modern or ancient) and I bet there will be at least one similarity regarding the control of people.

Get rid of all human discriminating religions, or let them evolve; but since their evolution is not possible, let them die like the other ancient myths.

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».

Either the Bible is the inspired and inerrant word of the Christian god; or it is simply another ancient text, whose ultimate traceability is unknown, and which shares a lot of the same narratives and stories of countless other religions throughout history.

According to the Odinist Fellowship website Odinism is an ancient «indigenous form of heathen religion» practises by the Angles, Saxons and Jutes.

For extra lulz try telling them something like you're a member of ancient Pagan religion of Slovakia or something.

The modern religion being pushed on us is a sick ancient Pagan Sun worship religion, that has nothing whatsoever to do with the teachings of Christ.

Yooz, the way you just used the word «myth» shows you can't be a very good scholar of ancient literature or religion, if you are one at all.

All religions are nothing but ancient mythology, written thousands of years ago by members of primitive cultures.

Ancient religions should welcome the political achievements of modernity while calling modernity to open its windows and doors to a world of transcendent truth and love: ``... the great achievements of the modern age» the recognition and guarantee of freedom of conscience, of human rights, of the freedom of science and hence of a free society» should be confirmed and developed while keeping reason and freedom open to their transcendent foundation, so as to ensure that these achievements are not undone....

The Bible for centuries has been an assertion, initiated by ancient man, to lend credibility to religion and as assertion to lend credibility to magic of man's folklore experiences — interfacing with a higher being.

After his death, he was resurrected as a god, becoming the god of medicine and healing in ancient Greek religion.

not the true versions of the religions, we've coupled our modern sensibilities with ancient religious beliefs.

let's forget the ancient history of war driven religion; let's focus on modern history we see everyday.

----- 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.

Islam, Buddhism, Shintoism, the gods of the ancient Greeks, Hinduism, and thousands of other religions man has created over the course of human history all have their own narratives.

And the Bible exposes such ones as part of a false religious «harlot», and given the name Babylon the Great (Rev 17:1, 2, 5), as ancient Babylon was the prototype in peddling false religion that has now extended to the ends of the earth.

The deist perspective strikes me as reasonable, while none of the Abrahamic religions, and none of the ancient European religions strike me as having a credible basis (I'm not familiar with most others).

Ancient Babylon became the focal point for much of false religion to originate.

Saying that Jesus came to save us * from * religion might make for Tweetable theology but it is not an accurate representation of what the word means (via the dictionary definition), how it was defined in both the ancient and modern worlds, and how the New Testament presents it.

But what do they share with religions such as those embraced by the ancient Greeks, the ancient Egyptians, early native American Indians, or the thousands of other religions made up by isolated cultures not influenced in any way by Christianity or its founding influences?

It is because of this ancient and false text that thousands of people suffer daily, because of the mass delusion known as religion.

The remarks Badian made some time ago in connection with the study of the deification of Alexander the Great are apposite in this respect: «Modern Jews and Christians, or modern rationalists, from their different points of view, have always found it difficult to believe that the ancient Greeks took their religion seriously since it seems so patently absurd.»

Rather, the condemnations must be seen in the light of ritual impurity - homosexuality is condemned because of its use in cultic worship practices, as found in Canaanite religions and then imitated in ancient Israel.

The Yazidis, another ancient religion, saw ISIS abduct more than 3,000 of its women and girls for sexual enslavement, and mass graves of their men are now being unearthed.

Father Tom Brodie, a Dominican priest, in his soon forthcoming book «In Search of the Historical Jesus» states that Jesus was a copy from the ancient pagan religions.

The latter in particular appears to have been designed not to explicate ancient texts but to force the Jewish religion into line with his own entirely philosophical preference for a liberal order supportive of individual freedom.

If the term «ecstasy» is applied at all to the giant figures in the succession from Amos to Second Isaiah, I would want to insist on Lindblom's distinction between ecstasy of the absorption type (involving loss of rational control) and that of the concentration type, and a very clear further distinction between the circumspective religion of the prophets and the more common ancient Eastern type of introspective, mystical piety.

The New Agers are an amalgamation of multiple and varying ancient pagan religions dating back to Babylon, Sumeria, Egypt, and so on...

My rejection of religion is a thorough one, borne of my own disinterest in organized belief systems, my distrust of dogmatic thinking and those who prefer it, and my own unwillingness to put faith in ancient tribal myths.

We are now a civilized and modern society and religion is just a relic of ancient times which which will soon disappear all together like every fad does.

Since most of those religions are unique unto themselves, I sometimes call them ancient paganisms.

From Kat W.: I've known of pagans who run the gamut from secular agnostics who treat their spirituality as completely metaphorical, to those who are pagan re-constructionists attempting to resurrect ancient tribal religions and espouse a literal belief in their chosen pantheon of gods.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

This is according to the «religionsgeschichtliche (History of religions) hypothesis», which presupposes that it was an intentional polemical fourth - century Christian replacements for popular Greco - Roman feasts in the ancient world.

Thus, in the very things most characteristic of the religion of ancient man, namely altars, sacrifices and temples, the prophets of Israel took the first steps in the direction of their abolition, for YHWH, being wholly different from the ancient gods, neither required the old cultic offerings, nor did He dwell in a house made by hands.

There were some noble reasons to try and organize ancient peoples, but in our current stage in history, religion has become an outdated, hypocritical source of leadership motivated by power and greed like all big business.

The mythological world of ancient man led of necessity to religion.

That is a bronze age superstition common to all religions of ancient times and many fundamentalist Neanderthals today.