Sentences with phrase «old traditions do»

These 1000 year old traditions do nothing for anyone except cause annoyance.

According to the oldest traditions they did not suppose Yahweh himself would go with them — he was attached to his mountain home.

The classic passage, Peter's confession of the Messiah, does not give an unambiguous answer to the question, since the oldest tradition does not tell us how Jesus received that confession of the disciple.

Not exact matches

The plantation mixes centuries - old traditions — most of the work is done by hand — and the latest agricultural methods.

Saturday night, I attended the annual Gridiron Dinner — a 132 - year - old, white - tie Washington tradition that is meant to be an opportunity for the President and the press corps to do some good - natured ribbing.

«Chairman Grassley's decision do away with a 100 - year old Senate tradition just 10 months into the Trump administration couldn't be more troubling,» she said in a statement.

It must be an old tradition though because allegedly Jesus made a comment about praying on street corners:» «And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men.

Maybe it would be easier to get people to convert to Christianity if Christians went back to their old tradition of killing those that do not want to convert.

The lesson many of them took from Of Grammatology was that the tradition didn't have the authority their older teachers claimed for it, and that «textuality» leveled culture to a single plane of production and interpretation.

One of the ideas coming through the article is — this generation doesn't want hipper christian bands they like the old traditions and ceremonies they feel less pretentious.

I wandered through other church traditions, traditional, contemporary, liturgical, meditative, mystic, seeker - sensitive, emerging, ancient - future, denominational, mega-church, old church, new church, basement church, no church for a while there: you name it, I found my way there and I found the people of God in each place, I did.

Lutheran theology's antinomian tendency makes it perhaps more vulnerable than the other Reformation traditions in spite of the countervailing forces of its sociology and its doctrinal tradition, although here and there an older methodology, which understands that the Gospel does not negate the commandments, lives side by side with neo-Lutheranism and makes possible at least a tentative no to the likes of the task force.

Yet we must not overlook the old tradition here too: «Now brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, and so did your rulers.»

Because the Church is universal she must often decide between many cultures, traditions, attitudes and tendencies, and in doing so may not please anyone completely, taking in too little that is new for one and retaining not enough of the old things for another.

This is a carryover from a very old Hebrew tradition that did much the same thing and arrived at similar ages.

Jesus came to do away with the old traditions of man.

They worship tradition, dress up in gaudy expensive clothes and march around, making arbitrary rules and regulations about every little thing, thinking if they do these things and make magical gestures that this somehow «cleanses» the outside of the cup, yet Jesus already knew of their type of priest in the old days, speaking against Pharisees for doing the exact same things the Catholics have been doing for centuries.

Nor do we, at least, doubt that the unfolding meaning of all that was given in early tradition was in appreciable measure reflected in the long editorial process of the compilation of the present Old Testament canon.

But it was not only the theory of the messianic secret which was of such grave consequence, which did such violence to the older tradition, and which had to be explained and corrected by the later evangelists — and explained away by John.

Though He often does things that were against the Jewish law and Jewish traditions, and because of this, He is often accused of sinning, He never once broke the law of God as contained in the Old Testament.

Those traditions have been written down in the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles (which are older than most gospels), and other writings that, while did not make it to the Canon (Bible), serve as important historical references.

In themselves the Old Testament traditions concerning creation, whether in the Priestly (Genesis 1) or Yahwistic (Genesis 2) accounts, or in Second Isaiah, Job, or the Psalms, do not insist upon this.

He has since given many signs of his support for the present pope; when many of his episcopal brethren were doing everything they could to undermine the motu proprio establishing the right to celebrate the «old Mass», he made clear his belief that the rite of John XXIII «is not a relic, not a reverting to the past, but part of the living tradition of the Church».»

In order to make concrete that preaching situation let us assume further that I am a preacher in a church which owns and honors the liturgical tradition, and as a major obedience to that tradition does not deliver over to me — for exploitation according to my ambulatory penchants or enthusiasms — a merely religious occasion, but has from of old designated this Sunday as the second Sunday in Advent.

In the Old Testament we see a tradition where the Jews would repeat at certain times or festivals all that God had done for them.

but in the end they will be replaced with healthy behavior, regardless of what an old group of grumpy men might try to do to hold to obsolete traditions.

Old - line Christians may think that conservative evangelicals do not fully appreciate the importance of the philosophical tradition in undercutting belief in God's reality among thoughtful people in the modern world.

In order to do justice to the idea of a divine Torah, it does not even suffice to say that the Hebrew Torah has a greater extension than what we call a moral commandment and that it is applied to the whole legislative system that the Old Testament tradition connected with Moses.

I think a major problem with many churches nowadays is that they are so stuck in their ways that they fail to even desire to start thinking about the Bible with as much objectivity as they can muster — such an approach might lead them down a path that doesn't follow age - old traditions.

Not believing in God doesn't make old timers cranky but so blatantly breaking the AA tradition that clearly states «anonymity at the level of press, radio, and film» does.

The theology underlying Mark's presentation is clearer from Matthew than it is from Mark, because Matthew uses the Old Testament far more; but the presentation of the Galilean theory is clearer from Mark, for he stands closer to the primitive stream of tradition than does Matthew.

We don't know exactly how old Simeon was here, but tradition says he was 113 years old, but that is only tradition.

That they were able to do this because the nomadic traditions of their race had come into violent conflict with a more sophisticated civilization, so that, in the name of conservatism, they could appeal to old folk - ways against the new commercialism, does not detract from their credit.

Laws that do not promote the following of the greatest commandment are age old traditions that need to be changed!!!

Yet the 38 - year - old British composer of such blockbuster musicals as Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita and Cats, who has written such enormously popular melodies as «I Don't Know How to Love Him,» «Don't Cry for Me, Argentina» and «Memories,» demonstrated in the Requiem that he can also write beautiful serious music in the English choral tradition — while still holding on to his more rock - inspired identity.

I do not like this pope... to modern the church lost a lots of people after Vatican ii... he's the leader of the church but I don't think he understands how the church worked in the last 2000 years... that's why we need a European pope again they understand how dress when they read mess he's to plain... people want to see a pope in the old liturgical clothing the old Latin mass was great with the great pomp... the church can modernize but just don't give up the old I think traditions I think pope benedict understood that... he came from Bavaria where they still celebrating mass in the old baroque style he's the pope not just a simple priest... the queen of England understands that people want to see pomp pretty soon he will wear street cloth..

Scotland, whose religion, laws, customs, and traditions have always been more European than English, and which spent most of the Middle Ages allying with France against the old English enemy, did not join in.

And such a man could and would do good works and make good use of spiritual advice — Luther proceeded to run through the Judaic «Ten Commandments» from the Old Testament and to pour out advice inherited from a long tradition, salted by his own experience covering most spheres of human activity from insufficient discipline for instance in sexual matters, to excess of discipline in, for instance, diet.

To some degree, Gregory's book does participate in an older Catholic antimodern tradition, even as he takes this tradition to new levels of sophistication.

When we confuse traditionalism with Tradition, and we all tend to do that, especially as we grow older, we become an impediment rather than an inducement to faith in our own children and all those who have not yet begun a spiritual pilgrimage of faith.

I understand and respect the fact that Mormons consider themselves to be Christians, but as they do not believe in the same triune definition of God that has been traditionally held by the older Churches (The Catholic Church, the Orthodox Churches, Protestant Churches, etc.) then they are not Christians by my faith tradition's view.

Those who resisted Kraemer did so mostly by arguing that these religious traditions functioned analogously to the history of Israel in the Old Testament — they provided preparation and expectations for, even prefigurations of, Christ.

Although older groups can and do evolve over time, newer ones are freer to innovate, both by adaptation to recent changes in society and culture and by greater boldness in delving into the country's religious tradition in a search for more efficient communication.

As with anything at an old - school counter, there's tradition, and then there's the newfangled way of doing things.

If you do not have enough budget to buy a high - end model, there are plenty of cheap baby carriers choices as well as the ten thousand year old tradition of DIY baby carriers that you can choose to make.

The toil of dealing with traditions: do we keep the old or build them new?

Don't miss this Triangle tradition that features old - fashioned fun, from rides and games, a «Flower and Garden Show,» «Folk Festival,» the Village of Yesteryear's artists and crafters, and the «Field of Dreams,» a miniature farm designed to help children learn how food is grown.

You may still choose the old traditions and marriage path but you would be choosing deliberately versus being guided by a script you don't know anything about.

My five year old had a experience to put his taste buds to test and he did great.Love teaching kids about traditions through play and one such attempt is this Mango art.

Not everyone chooses or has a chance to do it, although it is an old tradition that husbands or birth partners be given the chance to perform this ritual.