Sentences with phrase «people over the centuries»

Evolution, the age of the earth, the nature of the universe itself, etc., has been investigated and tested and findings challenged, refined, and verified in thousands of different ways by thousands of people over centuries and across continents.

Ms. Crow's manner is inviting and leisurely, offering the reader a pleasurable education in the history of England and, more important, in the many ways that people over the centuries have understood what it means to be Christian.

One thing is certain and proven... no matter what creed we utter, create, or claim to believe... more people over the centuries (including the 200 years of NT historians and theologians studies you lean upon) will remember... seek, find, and trust in a risen Jesus (the illiterate peasant carpenter) than will ever know you and I... let alone sing our praises.

Dear Reality; Speaking as one who has had many, many clergy serving the needs of many people over a century I must take issue with you on your «no clerics, no nuns, no bibles» etc..

Even if you think Jesus had some nice ideas, these writings from someone who rarely presented Jesus» ideals well has done little more than divide people over the centuries.

But it is really healthier for the mind to leave behind all the characters that people over the centuries have invented or given powers to, for which there is little or no foundation.

Many people over the centuries have been executed for writing it.

There are no available criteria of justice or injustice when it comes to the massive migrations of peoples over the centuries — whether in Europe, Asia, Africa, or the Americas.

This may be true with some people about some things, but overall, the Bible has grown organically, is very close to human experiences of people over centuries and millennia, speaks the truth about our frailty, draws characters that are complex, raw, and authentic, warts and all.

Not exact matches

As part of its 25th anniversary, CNBC is creating a definitive list of people who have had the greatest influence in business over the past quarter century.

Over 250,000 people died in one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes of the 21st century — one that Shabaab exacerbated.

By the 20th century, governments all over the world were engaged in an endless war on noisy people and things.

In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

Those meetings have been happening for over a century, yet few people outside the Fed knew about them.

Over the last quarter century, APEC has shaped and transformed the global economy and supported half a billion people in their rise out of poverty.

Over the centuries, gold has been considered as an object of value by many different groups of people all over the woOver the centuries, gold has been considered as an object of value by many different groups of people all over the woover the world.

Demographic trends have shifted dramatically in the U.S. over the past half century toward an older population, and hence potential growth has to be structurally lower today, even as we hire great numbers of people (to say nothing of deploying ever greater numbers of robots).

No, over 180 million people have been killed by their own secular humanist governments in the 20th Century.

God is working out His will through people all over the world and the mass migration of people from now to centuries past is not an accident.

God described how earth got here, but how people interpreted what he said over the centuries was wrong, because they didn't have all the information needed to confirm what he said.

That's a pretty funny comment, given the millions of people slaughtered over the centuries in the name of religion.

And if, over the course of a century, you have enough of those sporadic upswings in persecution sprinkled through the years, people are going to remember that century as one of persecution.

For atheists like me, it's always funny how worked up ignorant people get over a book, written by people trying to profit from, control and manipulate people in the 4th century AD.

Jewish DNA has not remained unchanged, Jews have intermingled with people's from the nations they migrated too in Europe and Russia over the centuries.

If asked to name the monumental chapters in Jewish history over the past century, people are likely to name the Holocaust or the founding of the state of Israel.

Why did people have to go and declare him God so that now, and for centuries before, we fight over him?

The rest of the world has progressed over the last 2 centuries, these people have not.

The people of the Old Testament were on a long journey by which they gradually matured in their relationship with God, over long centuries learning about Him and discovering always more about who He is.

By mid-eighteenth century, two religious titans of the Anglo - Saxon world, erstwhile allies, were at loggerheads over the question of just how many people were destined for an eternity in hell.

«God» is simply a crutch that people have used over the centuries to explain the unknown, to quell fears and to provide psychological relief.

Given all those who have, over the centuries, rejected God through nothing more than a healthy, intelligent skepticism, or who have otherwise committed mortal sins, there must be literally thousands of millions of people burning for all eternity in the cosmic oven of hell set up by their all - loving god.

@ iconoclast: you said:» «God» is simply a crutch that people have used over the centuries to explain the unknown, to quell fears and to provide psychological relief.»

Sometimes the only comfort I find is that as part of the human race I am only one person among many over centuries and centuries who find themselves in dire circumstances and suffer almost unbearably.

A first step might be the realization that over the centuries, Protestant theology has largely stood aside from peoples outcast, downtrodden, humiliated.

For example, even though the laws in the Pentateuch probably emerged gradually over the course of centuries as people sought ways to live in community, what does it mean that these laws became viewed as stemming directly from God at one point in the life of Moses?

@Rob... even if your statement was based on fact it wouldn't even come close to the number of people murdered in the name of Christianity over the centuries.

That's just a sampling of misguided, delusional people over the last few years... how many over the centuries died for untrue beliefs?

Given all those who have, over the centuries, rejected the Christian god, or who have otherwise committed mortal sins, there must be literally thousands of millions of people burning for all eternity in the cosmic oven of hell set up by your all - loving god.

«There's a vast history of people the Catholic Church has made saints over the centuries.

because you are uncomfortable being aligned with an ideology that has killed over 100million people in the 20th century alone, I should ignore all that... and just declare it a coincidence..

To be sure, for the Jewish people, who have experienced their fair share of forced conversions over the centuries (think the Spanish Inquisition), the suggestion that victims like Holocaust victim Anne Frank or Pearl might be baptized after death can be horribly offensive.

bible... ancient myth and folklore that has been changed very much over centuries... people really need to move past it and into the 21st century

And what are these dangers the author keeps mentioning but not enumerating and how do they compared to the dangers posed by organized religion and other organized philosophies like fascism and communism, «manifest destiny» and other philosophies that those oh so nobly «organized» people have «blessed» us with over the centuries?

In fact, atheists murdered OVER 100 MILLION PEOPLE in the past century alone.

As to when this idea that people weren't actually JUST heterosexual is a little more difficult to point to because same - sex relationships are all over ancient documents but it appears the concept came about circa - 1700s and the actual word homosexual came out a century and a half later.

Atheists have killed millions of people (over 100 million) in the past century alone.

are you not just blindly accepting dogma that's been honed over centuries as truth when, in fact, it's just people's ideas about things they don't understand?

All of these launched within the last century and now impact over 400 million people worldwide.

CNN: Decades - long fight for Jewish freedom remembered If asked to name the monumental chapters in Jewish history over the past century, people are likely to name the Holocaust or the founding of the state of Israel.

«The main reason followers of Jesus just inevitably find themselves gathering together over the centuries is to find people to love and with whom they can receive help to love God more.»