Sentences with phrase «on ancient peoples»

The distinction between medicine and mind - altering drug may have been lost on ancient peoples.

After he rescues her, she acknowledges that she needed help — and she destroys her notes, realizing that her book on this ancient people, a sure best seller, would bring in the outside world and destroy them.

The series shows an in - depth look on an ancient people's intent

The series shows an in - depth look on an ancient people's intent driven and survivalist way of life.

Not exact matches

People should deal with their own problems of today instead of wasting a speck of energy on carrying around ancient baggage.

you believe in a narrow view of a god based on ancient fairy tales and that if you adhere to the teachings of a supposed son of god you will go to disneyland in the sky forever... which is damm ridiculous... I consider myself an atheist but I am aware of the possibility of a creative force which created the universe... but that god chatted with people 2000 years ago and brought out a book is childish and stoopid!

People don't behave the way we do, good or bad, because of ancient scripture or the voice of burning bush in the desert or the face of the messiah on French toast.

In his encyclical on Holy Scripture, Pius XII warmly acknowledges that the inquiry of modern exegetes «has also clearly shown the special preeminence of the people of Israel among the other ancient nations of the East....»

Now think back on what it took for African Americans and women to get their civil rights, it took good people fighting the prejudice and bigotry of those brainwashed by ancient beliefs.

I'm not convinced that just because another ancient group of people believed it was a «hard dome» that necessarily we have to force that belief on the Hebrews.

God said we should not kill (murder is the word from the direct translation from the Ancient Greek and Hebrew) and He did not tell people to stone their servants if they worked on the sabbath (the metaphore was generated by mortal man).

Can't accept reality of the naturally existing gay people And want to control and condemn them based on your interpretation of your ancient book.

Shortly after multiple midnight bulldozing destruction of a ancient Islamic cemetery in Jerusalem crushing hundreds of headstones and monuments under the guise of forcing a Israeli Peace Museum on the Palestinian people, rabid bands of Zionists firebombing a Mosque must seem rather tame.

«A microphone allows its user to impose his voice... on many more people than an ancient orator could,» White writes, and it's certainly true.

A microphone allows its user to impose his voice, and thereby his thought and personality, on many more people than an ancient orator could.

My grandfather and many others from the village were against the Nazis and worked hard to prevent them from getting their hands on people and ancient artifacts.

Historical criticism is the process by which modern scholars examine the text of ancient documents and try to determine when they were truly written and whether or not they were authored by the person whose name is on the document.

And if your bias to an entire group of people based solely on what an ancient book tells you, then you're a bigot.

It was a horrible natural disaster and it would not be the only time that ancient people would blame such an event on an angry god.

On this basis alone, many persons conclude, like the ancient Jews, that the whole person dies.

Their «freedom» to mindlessly oppress people based on ancient Middle Eastern fairy tales is being taken away from them.

In the hands of a prosperous people, whether ancient Israel or America, this notion has tended to foster a concept of election that claims a corner on God's presence.

Radio ministers not only kept evangelical doctrine before the people; they made it clear that legions still built on the firm foundation and walked on the ancient pathways, and would teach their children to do the same.

@ Cedar Tree:????? All sorts of miraculous, superhuman nonsense has been attributed to ancient rulers of other figures of yore whose existence was once accepted by this or that group and who may or may not have been based in part on some historical person or persons and absolutely NO ONE these days takes every word in every text written about these figures to be literal truth.

But to discount an ancient doc.ument merely on the grounds of it mentioning a place or a people that you haven't heard of isn't logical.

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

For a person who toots his own horn about how smart he is, you certainly seem to need a lot more study on ancient history, science, and general philosophy coupled with theology.

Perhaps all the details (light on the first day, dry land on the second day, a garden with two trees, the snake, etc) were just a way of explaining these relationships to ancient peoples in terms they could understand.

Christians need to learn to step outside themselves and think about how difficult and annoying it is to talk to people about important issues when the only thing Christians base their «ideas» on is ancient Middle Eastern fairy tales and that they were told to believe something.

Hermann Gunkel, in a sense the unique father of us all in modern biblical scholarship, despite his insistence on saga's supervision of the Elijah narratives as we receive them, nevertheless affirms on the one hand Elijah's kinship with the greatest of all ministers of ancient Israel, Moses, in their mutual contention with their own people; and, on the other hand, Elijah's legitimate and immediate relationship to the great prophets who follow him and who, essentially, continue the work he began.

This formidable ascetic, haunting the wilderness in his uncouth garments, revived the popular image of an inspired prophet, and like the ancient prophets he announced the impending judgment of God on a recreant people.

a place where people write laws based on ancient books from the Bronze Age backed up by zero evidence.

We can see that this might make sense to someone brought up in the ancient Jewish tradition in which an unblemished animal was sacrificed to God to make atonement for the sins of the people, and in which the iniquities of Israel were all put on the head of a goat which was then driven out into the wilderness, taking the people's sins with it.

As for what goes on inside it, the great adversarial parties which in my time still reflected the ancient divisions of our people, have both died.

On the matter of redistributing goods and helping others, Theissen argued that in early Christianity we find a merging and mutual correction of two different structures of social benevolence: that of the ancient Near Eastern authoritarian monarchies, in which charity and compassion are shown by the upper classes to the lower classes, and» that of the Greco - Roman republican townships, in which philanthropia is extended between persons of equal social status.

People base their lives on the ancient ravings of some ignorant schizophrenic jewish eunuchs lol just lol!!!!!!!!!

As a short, inductive introduction the emphasis is on meaning and especially on the meaning of the ancient text in the life and faith of that ancient people, Israel.

If God uses hurricanes, tsunamis, bridge collapses and other such events to destroy the guilty and innocent alike, then it's no reach to conclude that he also ordered ancient Israel to slaughter their enemies, that he caused the earth to open and swallow people who disobeyed and so on.

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority.

There are, of course, proper names of God or gods, whether in the polytheistic religions or, as in ancient Israel, where the one omnipotent God, Yahweh, bears a special name because the people is convinced to have had a special experience of him in its history, which characterizes him despite his incomprehensibility and actual namelessness and thus confers a name on him.

And that cross on your church kinda looks like an ancient device used to torture people to death, but but we let you celebrate that.

It scares me how many people today don't have a good grip on reality and blindly accept ancient mythology as fact.

But Ober is more interested in confronting modern liberal and post-liberal «democracy» with the genuine ancient ideal, the Athenian «people power» of the fifth and fourth centuries b.c., on which he has had so many original and persuasive things to say since publishing Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens in 1989.

When speaking «of «persons»... beware of... anachronistically foisting contemporary notions of the person onto the ancient texts, especially since most modern Westerners tend to focus on the person as the center of individual psychological consciousness...» (p. 37).

Your faith is based on old stories told by ancient people, not in a God being that you have witnessed yourself.

I get a little tired of an ancient organization with a history of molesting children and setting people on fire trying to claim moral authority over a civilization that it threatens with annihilation.

This Christmas, churches across the UK will host their best - attended services; ancient rural chapels will offer standing room only on Christmas day and city - centre churches will see hundreds of people descend on them.

This is, of course, the issue addressed on a more personal level in Rabbi Harold Kushner's highly popular When Bad Things Happen to Good People, reassessing a conflict at least as ancient as the biblical Book of Job.

On the one side was the utter ruin of the old, sustaining sacred places and customs with which their faith in God had been identified, and on the other side was the competition of the brilliant gods of Babylon, who, according to ancient theory, had proved their reality and power by the ascendency of their peoplOn the one side was the utter ruin of the old, sustaining sacred places and customs with which their faith in God had been identified, and on the other side was the competition of the brilliant gods of Babylon, who, according to ancient theory, had proved their reality and power by the ascendency of their peoplon the other side was the competition of the brilliant gods of Babylon, who, according to ancient theory, had proved their reality and power by the ascendency of their people.

So there is truth in the ancient texts, and those texts show that the truth evolved based on human knowledge evolving... and we know human knowledge always has it faults... but I refuse to believe more in Satan or whatever evil power makes people afraid to advance our understandings....