Sentences with phrase «of ancient writings»

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.

«Homer's Iliad is the best represented of all ancient writings, apart from the New Testament, with something like 700 manuscripts.

Biblical scholars often use the term gospel to refer to a genre of ancient writings featuring dialogue between Jesus and his disciples, King notes in her paper.

For they are the only ones that do good for good's sake, not because of some ancient writings or a promise of a better place after death.

I have a high view of Scripture too, but that is NOT the same as claiming that the 66 - book anthology of ancient writings selected and assembled centuries later by men with political agendas («picking and choosing» the scriptures they liked and omitting others BTW) that we moderns call The Protestant Canon is without error.

One needs to keep that in mind of all ancient writings and not just the Bible.

Why would they think that our holy book, the Bible, is anything more than a collection of ancient writings that has little or nothing to do with them?

I hope some day, the citizens of Earth will be brave enough to speak out about the reality of life and death and speak out against the fabrication of ancient writings!

There are countless scraps of ancient writings which are extra biblical.

While that opinion may be supported by a literal reading of certain portions of the ancient writings which are revered as scripture, I find that attitude to be both deplorable and shortsighted.

So if a Mormon missionary tells you God answered his prayers and told him the Joseph Smith story is true and The Book of Mormon is an accurate translation of ancient writings on golden plates, you believe him?

Not exact matches

It's not one book like I always thought - It's an ancient collection of writings, comprised of 66 separate books, written over approximately 1,600 years, by at least 40 distinct authors.

Modern science is the cornerstone of your belief system, as ancient writings that I consider to be God given, holy inspired and very relevant to modern times (as well as every society that ever was and will be) is the cornerstone of my belief system, because everything about this book has been accurate in every way, unlike modern science.

``... as ancient writings that I consider to be God given, holy inspired and very relevant to modern times (as well as every society that ever was and will be) is the cornerstone of my belief system, because everything about this book has been accurate in every way, unlike modern science.»

The most ancient of human writings only go back no further than 7 thousand years.

What is your evidence, Theo, that the ancient writings, many of which are of unknown authorship, that, for some, represent alleged «Word of God», represent anything other than opinion / hearsay accounting?

Ancient writings... do you believe that these writings were inspired by God or merely the works of men?

Both the material and the script looked authentically ancient at first glance, and though the notion of Jesus having a wife was remarkable, these «lost» Christian writings, such as the Gnostic Gospels, are full of unorthodoxies.

''... ancient writings of ignorant sheep herders.»

So also with Augustine, the North African whose writings have been more influential than those of any other ancient writer in subsequent Western theology.

It was agreed in the Samaj that «the Vedas, the Upanishads and other ancient writings were not to be accepted as infallible guides, that reason and conscience were to be the supreme authority and the teachings of the scriptures were to be accepted only insofar as they harmonised with the light within us.»

It can be dismissed as the ancient writings of ignorant sheep herders.

Clearly the elevation of non-pathos was not limited to Stoic writings; it permeates much of ancient Greek philosophy in general.

The Magisterium is clearly using Tertullian's lucid and succinct style from his Catholic writings to express the ancient orthodoxy of the Apostolic faith on these points without in any way endorsing his other, heretical, views.

As I researched this biblical figure, I learned from the Jewish writings that the ancient Jewish sages declared Melchizedek was none other than Shem, the eldest son of Noah.

Hermeneutical reflections often leave believers in deep confusion about how to bring these ancient writings to bear on the present life of the church.

We know Caesar crucified slaves, but he never refers to crosses or crucifixions in any of his writings, and Hengel tells us that «no ancient writer wanted to dwell too long on this cruel procedure.»

In those writings most Christians refer to as the Old Testament, we find a God who bears a striking resemblance to the gods of the nations that surrounded ancient Israel.

Alfred Edersheim, one of the foremost scholars on ancient Jewish culture and sacred writings, argues that «there is no adequate reason for questioning the historical accuracy of this date.»

Should I attempt reading the hundreds of differing translations of ancient nomads writings?

If you wish to continue this line of thought, how about you provide some archaeological evidence like some ancient writings that involve Horus as being born of a virgin.

It's your belief in those ancient writings that form the entire basis of your beliefs.

For this reason the ancient writings often tend to obscure rather than to illuminate the religious dimensions of experience.

But it is in order to ask whether there is not an imperative in every age for the production of «sacred» literature which will express — possibly better than the ancient writings — the deepest religious insights and experiences of civilization.

In later chapters we shall show, with extracts from ancient writings, that far from there being only one view of resurrection, there was in fact a remarkable diversity in the way in which this concept was understood.

There is no magic or specialness to the present sanctified Hebrew anthology than to other anthologies: be it the Qu» ran, The Mahabharata, The Writings of Chuang Tsu, The Panchatantra and many many more ancient pieces of literature.

One can not find anything even remotely similar to the Twelve Steps in the writings of ancient or modern Christian theologians.

are known to contain all the Old Testament writings except one book.The writings found at Qumran are amazingly accurate to the Old Testament we have today.Where are the changes you speak of?The scribes of ancient Israel were under strict rules and supervision in the completion of their tasks; are you suggesting incompetence in their duty?If so please show it.

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.

Hey, maybe if Darwin or Hawking had a Hebrew lexicon in * their * writings you guys could study ancient languages, but alas, i guess you'll just have to leave that entire field of academia to the religious.

That's part of the issue, doesn't matter if you can read ancient Greek or Hebrew, many humans still were never given the writings in the first place.

Already at the Renaissance, scholars had begun to pore over the ancient writings which included the original Greek and Hebrew texts of the Bible.

One of its founders, Marsilio Ficino (1433 - 99), made prominent the writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, supposedly an ancient Egyptian author.

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.

(II Samuel 12:23) When to such influences from ancient racial tradition and from the controlling patterns of contemporary thought was added the fact that prophetic orthodoxy in Israel had held out no hope of a future life for the individual, it is not strange that even in the Old Testament's later writings we have explicit and convinced denials of such hope.

To write off: dead sea scrolls, ancient recovered writings, tablets, catagorical events, keping of time using BC * AD, enemies writings of Christ ect ect ect., and you don't care to believe still... ok, explain your version of how we came to be & where we came from...

In the writings and the witness of Pope John Paul II, the Church has reasserted her ancient awareness that a person stands at her center.

While ancient standards of credibility were largely personal, the rest of Luke's writings does not suggest that he would have found this story difficult to believe.

This tradition was rooted ultimately in the sophistic, skeptical and hedonistic strands of ancient Greek philosophy, but took its modern form initial in the theoretical writings of Thomas Hobbes.

We need to invent a new word for people willing to believe the writings of unknown authors, of unknown origin, of an unknown but ancient time, which is badly worded, internally AND externally (with modern science) inconsistent, full of statements with no actual arguments to back them up, with the only decently educated people to back it all up are theologians who twist the meaning of words and commit logical fallacies and still only try to prove that SOMETHING must exist, not that christianity is the truth.