Sentences with phrase «other ancient deities»

The bronze aged tribal middle eastern deity was exactly where all other ancient deities were — in people's heads.

Your «god» is no more real than any other ancient deity that was once worshipped then fell into the realm of mythology.

Not exact matches

What is really fascinating is the theory that the Hebrew and Muslim deity figure derive from a war god in an ancient Semitic pantheon whose association with the other gods was lost in the confusion that time and oral tradition bring.

And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.

One of the assumptions was that Yahweh shared the violent attributes of other deities worshipped in the ancient Near East.

While there is a * possibility * of a «first cause» of our universe (or god, if you want to call it that), I do not believe that any of the deities thought up by man are real... not the Middle Eastern gods, nor those of the ancient Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Mayans, or any of the tens of thousands of others.

Other films include Claes Oldenburg in his studio, lovingly inspecting his eclectic knick - knack collection and dusting them with a paintbrush; the poet Michael Hamburger showing the rare apples he has grown in his Suffolk orchard - including those that originated from his friend Ted Hughes; and the artist Mario Merz, who sits in a garden like an ancient deity, holding a pine cone and accompanied by the sound of chirruping cicadas.

When the ancient Greeks turned their attention to the gods, demigods and other deities of Mount Olympus, they saw a world much like their own — marked by rivalry, love, violence, deceit, ego and danger.