Sentences with phrase «of ancient things»

If you will listen closely you can hear the smell of ancient things that are soothing.

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At the new gym, programmers can train their bots to master things like the ancient game of Go or learn better ways to play Atari games, such as Pac Man and Space Invaders.

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».

«Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:» (Isaiah 46:9 - 10)

It's one of those ancient fear things that was created hundreds of years ago when people still believed that bad things can happen to you if you don't believe in God and obey Him.

@fimilleur from time to time mankind experiences the presence of God, there have been and continue to be events that testify to the presence of Him.The multiple gods you continually point to have an unique difference from the God who first revealed His presence to ancient men i.e. the Hebrews.The particular gods you mention roman etc. are all man made and in many instances men themselves i.e. hercules, but even the ancient greeks realized the limitations of their understanding and included an «unknown» God in their worship structure.many cultures did likewise, having a glimpse of God but not the fullness of understanding that was given to the Jews.Whether or not «we» believe, does not alter the fact that God exists as an unique being, whether or not «we» acknowledge Him «we» will stand before Him.You do not choose to understand, but we are actually standing in His presence right now as He is much bigger than the doctrines and knowledge man ascribes to Him those things you find so questionable are the misconceptions and misrepresentations of God made by men throughout history.

The Author correctly says «The Bible is an ancient collection of letters, laws, poetry, proverbs, histories, prophecies, philosophy and stories spanning multiple genres and assembled over thousands of years» but she forgot the most important thing - the bible is mostly a work of fiction.

To the ancient Greeks, who thought about these things, this seemed to be much more clearly the case with what they called the «musical arts,» the arts of poetry, dancing, music, and acting.

Still, it may be worth pondering that in this brave new world, those who uphold the old and much derided «gender binary» — or, to speak more properly, the ancient understanding that there is a real and normative difference between the sexes — will be the ones who can actually see some sort of meaning, however misguided, in things like same - sex desire and gender dysphoria.

so just to get this correct christians carry around a symbol of ancient world torture as a good thing?

Realizing its potential anthropological significance, Kennedy turned the bone over to experts at the Smithsonian Museum and the University of Florida, who have now been able to confirm that this really is authentically ancient, and not just a clever forgery (making counterfeit mammoth engravings was a big thing in the 19th century, for whatever reason).

And if this be so, our work as educators and as advocates of a well - functioning American educational system is to develop citizens who are at home in the canons that comprise the formal reality of their heritage, who are equally at home with the varied individual things that comprise the material reality of that heritage and of their present life, and who are able to devise constantly new frames that are adequate to both, that marry ancient canon and novel particular in a new canon which integrates as fully and complexly as possible all its participant elements.

Matter of fact, the Bible names God as the «ancient of days» He has no beginning or end for by him and through him all things exist.

And then that moment of birth being one of complete relief and release and joy, yes absolutely, but instead of popping champagne corks or bursting into laughter, I cried from the core of myself — like some ancient writer said, I lifted up my voice and I wept, because she was finally here and we were alive and we were safe and I felt held by the God - with - us; it was the most human and most sacred thing I'd ever done in my life, it felt like a glimpse of Incarnation.

Ancient cosmologies were developed on the basis of phenomenal observations of the world — that is, things as they appeared to everyday observation.

Then I inquired of one of the angels, who went with me, and who showed me every secret thing, concerning this Son of man; who he was; whence he was; and why he accompanied the Ancient of days.

Among other things, he was an exemplar of the power of rhetoric, the ancient art or science which has suffered neglect for several generations.

In Richard Snowden's The American Revolution; Written in the Style of Ancient History, Congress became the «great Sanhedrin,» Lord North's counsel was similar to that of Ahitophel, and the British descended on America «like the locusts of Egypt» devouring «every goodly thing.»

One thing I look to in affirming the historical existence of figures of the ancient past is to look to the New Testament wherein many of the ancient figures and episodes are affirmed by Jesus and various sacred writers.

For all of its Renaissance splendor, the most impressive thing to me about St. Peter's is the necropolis, the ancient Roman cemetery far beneath the magnificent church of Bernini and Michelangelo.

These tablets where carved before the bible was even written and it goes to show how the bible is a replica of what is said on the ancient tablets, but some things are kept out because at the time is was unthinkable technology which then posed as a possible lie, but the technology has come to pass so it proves a lot.

0 wonder of wonders that none can unfold The Ancient of days as an hour or two old, The Maker of all things is made of the earth, Man as worshipped by Angels, and God comes to birth.18

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.

This is the sort of thing Paul would've seen in his travels; it was common practice in Ancient Rome.

The Christian God has taken up everything into Himself; all the treasures of ancient wisdom, all the splendor of creation, every good thing has been assumed into the story of the incarnate God, and every stirring towards transcendence is soon recognized by the modern mind — weary of God — as leading back towards faith.

Because the name is one with the essence of the thing named great care and ceremony were exercised in the giving of names; and we find reflected in the legends of Genesis an inordinate interest in the origin of ancient names of both places and people.

«Due to the hardness of ancient Israel's heart, God tolerated (and regulated) some things under the Old Law that He did not endorse.»

Perhaps the only thing more absurd than believing that an ancient Palestinian rabble rousing rabbi was the Son of God is believing that Haile Selassie is His 2nd coming.

From one perspective, this is a good thing, for the textual evidence of the New Testament is much stronger than any other ancient Greek piece of literature.

By the time of her wedding, she came to realize that there is no such thing as an entirely original wedding ceremony: «marriage means stepping into an ancient institution marked by hundreds of temporal particulars,» so your wedding's dearth of originality is no shortcoming.

Modern science began, as did ancient Greek science, with the adoption of an ultra-simple and essentially negative notion of causality, the belief that, given the causal conditions, what concretely happens is the only thing that then and there could happen.

The Bible itself gives the purpose of prophecy, «Remember the former things long past, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things which have not been done...» (Isaiah 46:9, 10, NASB).

For example, the theory of evolution is contradicted by the existence of technically advanced pyramids that we could not even re-create today, or by ancient hieroglyphics that depict our solar system before Galileo ever made his discoveries, whereas these things fit perfectly well within the Christian account that acknowledges the antediluvian and / or pre-Adamic worlds.

Firstly, it's what the vast majority of scholars of the ancient world believe (i.e. the ones who actually research these things, rather than the opinion of an Oxford biologist).

Ancient scrolls and bits and pieces of some books and some verses yes, but there's no such thing as an original intact Bible Most intelligent people realize that.

If «God» does not exist, then we could do as Jefferson did, and excise all mention of things supernatural from the Bible, and just keep a few ancient pearls of wisdom and a bit of Middle Eastern historical facts.

Sensing the «newness» of Pope Benedict's approach (which is, in fact, an ancient one) and aware of the historic magnitude and importance of his visit, an unthinkable thing happened among my English relatives - they were inspired!

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.

It's the same thing with many other legends / tales like phoenixes for example are in dozens of ancient tales from across the word (Arabian, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Chinese, Indian (American and Arab / middle eastern).

From that fateful date the Holy Spirit, speaking through the Pope and the Fathers of the Council (not the periti) told the Church that a new frame was needed, both to safeguard the ancient treasury of the Faith, and to draw forth from that treasury «new» things for this age, as well as the old things.

The ancient creeds, the Apostle's, the Nicaean and the Athanasian, contain different numbers of articles, formulated to meet different difficulties, [13] but today the chief things of which we are said to be assured by faith are that God exists and Jesus Christ was the son of God, both human and divine.

Ancient philosophers talked about «the nature of things.»

In his significant work Christianity in World History, a prominent theologian Arend Theodor van Leeuwen has argued that the idea of separating out the things of God from the things of people in such a way as to deny the divine nature of kingship was first formulated in ancient Israel and then became a major motif of Christianity.

One of the worst things about the religious people is that they think that because science can't give you all the answers immediately that an ancient book is the obvious fill - in for anything missing.

Now one of the things we all know has characterized this great divide between the ancient and the modern world - views is the importance of science.

9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

And yes, Bill P, if the «End Religions» of the world were more educated about things like «voluntary servitude» as a synonym for «slavery» in the Bible, they might understand the library of ancient texts that they continue to deride.

All our best achievements, all our highest hopes and aspirations, all that the mind and soul of man has attained or even dreamed, this ancient thinker asserts, is in accord with the deepest nature of things.

The suggestion that the Gospel of Mark has received the addition of an appendix not originally intended need cause no surprise, for in the ancient world it was not at all uncommon for such a thing to happen to a book.

A brooding sense of tile ages is one of its great things, potent now as it was when the Hebrew seer in mystic vision beheld the enthroned «Ancient of Days.»