Sentences with phrase «one ancient rule»

They are a bloodthirsty and self - righteous cult that wants all of us to follow their ancient rules.

The ancient rule for the number of guests to invite to dinner was «no fewer than the Graces and no more than the Muses,» that is, no fewer than three and no more than nine.

Peter, Peter, Peter, Before the bible there were the Codes of Hammurabi and the Egyptian Books of the Dead and other ancient rules of life for humans to follow.

Ancient rules and customs will have little power over a mind that can soar thousands of miles at the speed of light.

The team coached by Carlos Ancelotti reached the best score ever in the CLUB WORLD RANKING, surpassing the former record by FC Juventus Torino with 372, 7 points in 1993 - when it was ancient rules -.

This is an ancient rule for all girls.

In a Daily Politics film, Giles Dilnot looked at how the political wind was blowing now, and why the «ancient rules just do not apply any more».

An ancient rule had changed.

Although it breaks the ancient rule of matching polka dots with solid colours, this combination adds a lot of creativity to your outfit.

Of course, the new film will also adhere to the ancient rules of the heist genre.

There is one ancient rule that, if truly followed, would ensure just human relations: the Golden Rule.

However, the summer patterns that have been observed in the last three decades deviate from the ancient rule of monsoon - law.

The accepted view now appears to be that such funding arrangements do not contravene these ancient rules provided the third - party does not interfere in the conduct of the action.

«It is a long - established, if not ancient rule of fairness, that you... Continue Reading →

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But diplomacy seemed to rule the day at the conference, held in the ancient scenic city of Wuzhen in the eastern province of Zhejiang, and neither Smith nor Cook addressed issues of censorship or cyber regulation.

Two that at the time, slavery was acceptable and so the rules only applied to ancient israelites and not anymore.

In my youth I made the chance discovery, via the Lutherans, of the ancient Daily Office, associated with the early monasteries and prescribed in St. Benedict's Rule.

When Christians were ruling Egypt they defaced and destroyed a lot of the temples and structures of the ancient egyptians.

They are an insular people who refuse to be «Westerinzed» and stay away from others (including Conservative and Reformed Jews) They follow ancient and modern rules laid out by Rabbi's who are trying desperately to maintain control of their flock.

Empathy and the needs of society are better arbiters of morality than an ancient book where half of the rules exist to simply enforce the following of a specific supernatural claim.

The ancient stock, if absolutized, sets rules that eventually prove inadequate to the ever - changing caches of the world.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

Pictures of the terror by which rulers in the ancient world sought to maintain their authority ought not to be applied to God's exercise of his rule and should not, in my opinion, be used to suggest that Jesus taught that the wicked would burn for ever in hell.

The bible is a collection of documents spread over a thousand years that itself is over 2,000 years old from an ancient culture no longer extant, and therefore should not be solely relied upon for a rule book for modern ethics.»

Its model of excellence is an ancient paideia that once was so engaged because in ancient Athens it was ruled by political interests.

They've just evolved past the point where some ancient fairy tale book rules over their lives.

Although the ancient Yemenite civilization which found its stimulus in its favorable climate and trade is no more, the latent human and natural resources of the country are still there and will come to the fore when they have security from foreign invasion and can introduce modernization and democratic rule.

''... Atheists who also wrote about how there was a list of all the egyptian rulers from the ancient times and no mention of Jacob who the Bible said co ruled with Pharaoh during the time of great famine.

This is the point of the famous passage in Micah 5:2: «But you, 0 Bethlehem... from you shall come forth one who is to rule in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days.»

How concerned are you that you will be sentenced to Tartarus for not following the rules of ancient Greek Mythology?

An early example of the Golden Rule that reflects the Ancient Egyptian concept of Maat appears in the story of The Eloquent Peasant, which dates to the Middle Kingdom (c. 2040 — 1650 BCE): «Now this is the command: Do to the doer to cause that he do thus to you.»

It is possible that papacy and Islam have the same cause: Like the actually Christian Germany was ruled by the anti-Christian tyrant Adolf Hitler for some years, the actually Christian Eastern Roman Empire Byzantium was ruled by the wicked tyrant Phocas (Phocas is one of the worst tyrants of history beside Hitler; he was an ancient Hitler) for some years.

The distinction between ethical principles, on the one hand, and ancient taboos and cultic rules, on the other, may have been tentatively and provisionally made by some Pharisees, but in Jesus it took on unequivocal and uncompromising character.

It is possible that papacy and Islam have the same cause: Like the actually Christian Germany was ruled by the anti-Christian tyrant Adolf Hitler for some years, the actually Christian Eastern Roman Empire Byzantium was ruled by the wicked tyrant Phocas (Phocas is one of the worst tyrants of history beside Hitler; he was an ancient Hitler).

-- forgetting that ancient religious writers, unlike scholarly historians, did not as a rule feel it incumbent upon them to give, in a footnote or otherwise, their source for every anecdote or event, or to anticipate the modern reader's constant query, «How can we know that what you say is true, in every detail?»

My hope is that readers will come to the end of the book reminded the Bible — this ancient, diverse, powerful, God - breathed text — is far too complex to be reduced to an adjective, and that womanhood was never meant to be reduced to a list of rules and roles.

We argue that Nietzsche is embracing an ancient rather than a modern view of ethics, what has been called an «ethics of virtue» rather than an ethics of rules and principles, rather than an ethic that looks mainly to the spread of well - being and happiness («utilitarianism»).

Instead of subordinating artisans and entrepreneurs to the founding aristocracy, as the ancient city had done, the medieval city was ruled by a combination of grand bourgeoisie and small capitalists.

Turbans have been worn by Cypriot men since ancient times and were recorded by Herodotus, during the Persian rule of the island, to demonstrate their «oriental» customs compared to Greeks.

No rule can be final and complete; plainly enough, as the poet wrote, «new occasions teach new duties,» while «time makes ancient good uncouth.»

For the ancient Hebrew sages «kingdom of heaven» was a spiritual expression meaning the rule of God over a person who kept or began to keep the written and oral commandments.

Up and down its narrow valleys and across its great plain went the pomp and panoply of the ancient world, and its more commonplace traffic as well: rich argosies from far Babylon, carrying the wares down to Egypt; royal messengers of the great kings who ruled in Persepolis, bearing decrees for the officer in charge at the frontier station of Assouan; plenipotentiaries of Hatti and of Egypt, seeking a modus vivendi in the political stresses of the thirteenth century; conquerors with their chariots and footmen and their tale of atrocities behind and yet before; wandering bands of foot - loose adventurers, seeking a good land where they might strike roots into the soil - all these and hosts of others were led among the Palestinian hills where went the great trunk roads of the ancient world, camped in the plains, bartered in the little cities, or stayed to lay permanent claim to some hit of the land.

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.

Christians, Muslims, Jews etc are still living in ancient pasts where ignorance ruled the day.

, taking care of the unfortunate and treating others well are covered by the so - called Golden Rule which apparently showed up as early as ancient Greece with Thales, Epicurius, and Plato's Socrates and maybe as early as ancient Eygypt 1650 BCE in the Eloquent Peasant.

But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah, who are one of the little clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to rule in Israel whose origin is from of old, from ancient days.

The ancient Egyptian early dynastic period in which the first of the God - Kings ruled over a unified Upper and Lower Egypt, began circa 3100BCE.

At Passover, thousands of Jews concentrated in a rather small area in and around the temple to celebrate, while under Roman rule, their deliverance from ancient Egyptian bondage.

In ancient Greece there was a widespread popular teaching of philosophy, with Cynics, Stoics, and Epicureans preaching a rule of life.

When the religious thought of the ancient world from Mesopotamia to Palestine, and from Palestine to Egypt, required terms to express that ultimate unity of direction in the universe, upon which all order depends, and which gives meaning to importance, they could find no better way to express themselves than by borrowing the characteristics of the touchy, vain, imperious tyrants who ruled the empires of the world.