Sentences with phrase «other old religions»

Besides there are plenty of records showing Genesis «borrowed» ideas from other older religions in that region.

Not exact matches

After all that other religion is older AND has more literature about it!

Please, are the gods so stupid that just because an alive person claims a dead one is now a different religion said god would have to throw them out of their old religion heaven and send them to the other heaven??? Really, some of you are more obsessed with dead people than the ones living.

I gave up the concept of God when I was 12 years old because I did a little research and found out it's all a bunch of cr ap taken from other religions before it like Zorastrianism.

Oh yeah... And this so called religion of peace show us that they can't stop from killing each other... Shiite vs Sunni and all the stories from all these countries from the old Soviet block that we can't remember because of all the K's Z's R's and T's on their name (no criticism of their language... we just can't associate those names very well)...

Sister Simone's message is consistent with the Old Testament, the New Testament and, I think, the teachings of the other major religions.

On the one had, the old testament class covered pre-christianity prophecies; on the other hand, the world religions class covered, gulp, ISLAM.

But many others are influenced by authority figures from such a young age that by the time they are old enough to think for themselves, racism (or religion) has already been deeply instilled.

4) Believe in borrowed material from other religions... i.e. Noah's flood... there are much older almost identical stories of a great flood.

«327 The Jewish faith, unlike other non-Christian religions, is already a response to God's revelation in the Old Covenant.

90 % of the New and Old Testaments is completely fabricated or evolved from other religions.

I believe that forcing young children to swallow the indoctrination of religion before they are old enough to decide for themselves is symptomatic of the greater problem in society today; be it Christian, Muslim, Hindu, or any other recognized religion.

Also many religions are rehashed versions of each other and older religions.

There was a a great deal of cultural exchange, and it is EXTREMELY likely that the eastern philosophies, started weakening the old religions in the region, and the NT was written in responce to this, so it is very likely that what Jesus allegedly taugh WAS from the Buddha and other sources, just as the rest of the bible took from many other cultures.

Although there are many religious folk with good intentions — some selflessly helping others, religions and religious organizations are, as a whole, just big old clubs — each trying to out do each other and inspiring hate and division (often disguised as love) along the way.

Progressive religious folks of all stripes tend to share a post-triumphalism (a sense that it's time to move beyond the old triumphalist paradigm in which one religion is The Right Path to God and all the other paths are wrong), as well as an inclination toward reading our sacred texts through interpretive lenses which take into account changing social mores and changing understandings of justice.

On the other hand religion likes to pretend, although we all know it does nt, it clings to old ways because god has seen everything and knows how we should live therefore nothing needs to change.

What if you found out that the Jesus Character was simply taken from other older stories and then remodeled and retooled to form a religion?

Actually they say all the three Abrahamic faiths are not Religions of Peace and all three of them had their Bloody History but the difference here is that we are as Muslims had the shortest history of bloodshed since we are only 1400 years old and like yours people of the bible one over 5000 years and the other over 2500 years in bloodshed history...!!

10/10 13 year old SDA (Christian) Although I don't necessarilly agree with other religions I respect them, and look into them by researching them.

If He had, they would have had to go without branches or booths, since other, older religions used tree branches in their idolatrous rituals, as the prophet Ezekiel noted (see Ezekiel 8:17).

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

Avoidance of the emotional side of the centuries - old discussion about faith and religion is the better way to reduce the noise and to understand the other side of the question.

It does not instill fear in me, it actually makes me sad that so many people follow a religion that was founded by stealing their entire theology and their entire story from other, much older religions.

Others were the revivalists who wished to be bothered with no intellectual problems and wanted the «old - time religion» preserved intact.

So I went back to picking through religions (old and new) just to see some other schools of thought on the subject.

haha - idiot - all religion is a cult - soem are just older than others - good - do nt need uneduicated rre; ligious rednecks voting

It's so full of contradictions, parables, borrowings from other, older, religions, and outright fantasy that the only «truth» it contains is purely accidental.

Such things might be included here as natural theology (the making of inferences about God from a study of the natural world); the teachings of other great religions — again, to the extent they are compatible; or even the Old Testament prophets, depending on how you view their relationship to Jesus.

The old phrase, Unus Christianus nullus Christianus — «one Christian is no Christian,» holds true of all other religions, too.

Jürgen Moltmann, on the other hand, emphasized the difference between the new and the old meanings of political theology depicting what had earlier been called political theology as the ideology of political religion, which is the symbolic integration of the beliefs of a people through which they sanction and sanctify their traditions and their ambitions.12 Moltmann strongly supports Peterson in his critique of political theology in this sense.13 It is the task of what is properly called political theology — in Metz's sense — to unmask the pretenses of political religions.

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

Some throw in a few other explanations (I just grew up with it... It's the oldest religion... We have a great tradition.)

i'm sure many of the people on the Springer show were Christians that other Christians would say «they are not a real Christian» — that age old saying that we hear all too often that exposes that religion's conflicted nature.

And so, I say only that, in these conditions, a third possibility might emerge, in which the old nations and the old religion will appear as a priceless resource — if only because we have no other.

It was actually what God intended all along, but regardless, this new way of loving others and being with God was not compatible with the old religion.

Bousset has pointed out the gradual transformation of Judaism, during the period between the Old and New Testaments, from a national cultus to a religion of individual piety — a religion of observance rather than of theology, on the one hand, or of deep personal feeling, on the other.

Mohamad was one of them, so was other Abrahamic religions who were behind all other older, eastern religions, as well as 4000 year old Persian religion of Zorostrians

There are 3 major religions that have evolved from that Middle Eastern «scripture»... each with subsets (thousands of them in the case of Christianity), who don't agree with each other because of how they translate and interpret those old writings and ideas... each saying that they are the «true» one.

Again the act of Baptism comes from other religions and like the Church that decided to build on past pagan ground and to hijack the old pagan festival dates like Christmas and Easter, God draws us to Himself in a gentle way as He turns our old attitudes and ways upside down.

tradition hard to break.the tradition of marriage is older and more meaningful than any other we know it crosses all religions and non religions, and races and cultures.it won't change easy.calling it something else for some people may make it easier to change.but what about those people who want that time tested tradition for themselves for their own self worth.it is a civil right give it to them today.this issues has divided my community as much as any other, but as we have fought to gain right after right, we have lost sight that all deserve the right of freedom of happiness.No gayness here, just can't fight the battle to keep someone down after being held down

Rather, it is to work honestly and lovingly with that growing body of righteous Christians who look to Judaism as to an older sibling, who are seeking to expiate Christian guilt for the Holocaust, and who recognize that Christianity and Judaism need each other desperately if religion in 21st - century America is to offer a compelling alternative to unbridled consumerism, self - centeredness and arid secularism.

and relight old fires of hatred and pain, I would worry about the safety too of the good American Muslims, although it was radicals to have a Mosque where 3,000 were killed seems to me to rub salt in wounds for many, I don't really understand what happened to the plans of statues and tributes to those lost in 911, other than a money factor.It seems like this Mosque will be viewed as a Trojan horse, no religion would want a house of worship to be a reminder of hatred.it should be a place reminding the world of peace and love if it's a place of worship, and in that location it will not bring a feeling of peace.

Akira, if Gambling is not sin then Catholic ism is just a religion of convenience Alias, I still think it would be fun to see old guys pushing other guy off the chairs or accidently sitting on someones laps, umm something like a scene from movie called «it's mad mad mad mad world»

If you took the time to do the research on your religious books, you would also know that it's plagiarized off of other, older religions combined with the principles for religious rule written down by Plato 400 years prior to the «New God» and the New Testament.

M.d religion is about man there is alot of man in the evangelical church as well as other churchs however the Holy spirit is the one we lean on to teach us Gods word he reveals the scriptures just as though Jesus was teaching his disciples in his day.Often after speaking in parable his disciples would ask what he meant and he would give them insight into the messages.I find for me if i struggle understanding a topic i ask the holy spirit to help me if you havent received him just invite him into your life if you have already confessed Jesus as your Lord and savior.We can not live a christian life without him.He is the one who empowers us to live righteously rather than according to our old nature.In the last year or so he has been showing me extraordinary insight into the word its new its fresh he is amazing.brentnz

God does not whisper to others of different religions who have no knowledge of the Old and New Testaments.

as long as you do nt turn your kids into super religious zealot nazi's «cough» most of the homeschooled chirstians «cough» no real problem with religion aside from that tiny part in the old testimant about shunning and killing those who are differnt from ya i belive it was somewhere round the part in solomans temple having just been built and the whole buring of a offering at the temple and taking parts from it or something or other that was stolen from pagen's after the one of the so called holy crusades aka the earliest recorded holocausts of sentiant man

2) islam should not be attacked for condoning the marriag of «ripe» 10 + year old girls because other religions and / or countries also allow.

@Alias, Not that Islam is any worse than many other religions, but wasn't Aisha «six or seven years old when she was betrothed to Muhammad and nine when the marriage was consummated.»