Sentences with phrase «such tomb»

Not exact matches

Otherwise similar tactics could be used against «soundbite theism» such as: «The empty tomb.»

A Resurrection of his physical body, such as is implied by the empty tomb and by some of the stories in the Gospels of his appearances, would point towards a docetic Christ who does not fully share the lot of men; unless, indeed, bodily corruption were to be regarded as being bound up with the sinfulness of man which Christ did not share (but, unless we accept an impossibly literalistic interpretation of Genesis 3 as factual history, it is impossible to hold that physical dissolution is not part of the Creator's original and constant intention for his creatures in this world).

Building tombs for the prophets could be a sincere repudiation of sins of previous generations, but Jesus does not recognize it as such in his contemporaries.

It is even said that when such «saints» die they should have distinctive tombs, high domed, and lighted at night; that one should seek their blessings, offer them pledges, and bow before them.

In return for being given an inheritance within the company the adoptee adult accepts obligations to the adopter such as maintaing tombs and Shinto prayer rites.

Matthew's seventh and last woe, Luke's fifth (Mt 23:29 - 3 1; Lk 11:47 - 48), depicts the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees as building tombs and monuments for the prophets and righteous men killed by their fathers, and claiming that they would have had no part in such deeds.

Since they set out to abolish such later innovations as the venerating of Islamic saints and visiting their tombs, the Wahhabis came into direct conflict with the Shi'ites, who focus so much attention on the mausoleums of their imams.

Because of the tendency of the illiterate to want religion presented to him in a way which suits his imagination, we find that educated Muslims today disapprove of the innovations invented by the Sufi orders, such as veneration of saints, seeking blessings from tombs, seeking the mediation of religious leaders, and excessive asceticism.

It has also been tested on items for which the age is known through historical records, such as parts of the Dead Sea scrolls and some wood from an Egyptian tomb (MNSU n.d.; Watson 2001).

Though, Islam is generally understood to be anti-incarnational the ideas of the imam in the Shia sects, the idea of the Mahdi in Mahdawism, the ideas of sainthood, poles, pirs, mujawirs and murshids, and places such as tombs of the saints and dargahs are deemed to be infused with certain amount of the sacred.

Since a reenactment of the crucifixion was neither practical nor seemly and one of the nativity difficult and somewhat undramatic, the first such «play» and the only one for a century or more — and the one that remained the most popular, even in the 14th century when there were many — was the scene of the three Marys at the empty tomb.

The tombs of such persons shall be isolated.

Some have said — and doubtless the majority of believers have assumed that after Jesus» burial there was a rising such that the tomb in which he had been laid was found empty.

With his superb eye for giving voice to female disciples, such as the Samaritan woman and Martha and Mary, the Fourth Evangelist tells the story of Mary Magdalene's encounter with Jesus outside the empty tomb.

The resurrections (or more correctly resuscitations) which, according to ancient tradition had been performed by Elijah and Elisha, depended partly upon this belief.10 The same belief supplies us with the reason why the story of the raising of Lazarus lays such emphasis on the fact that he «had already been four days in the tomb».

But if Wilckens is right in saying that «Paul himself obviously has no concrete knowledge about Jesus» grave, nor of the finding of the empty tomb», 20 then any such traditions could hardly have been historical, for if so, Paul would certainly have learned of them when he conferred with Peter.

Goguel concludes, «If no one thought of making an enquiry about the empty tomb, it can only have been because discussions were raised at such time and place as made enquiry impossible.

It has sometimes been claimed by the defenders of the traditional view of the resurrection, that such was the nature of the Easter faith, that only that series of events to which it refers (from the discovery of the empty tomb to the Ascension forty days later) could adequately explain the rise of Christianity.

It was important to establish the fact that they knew who was crucified and where he was buried, before their discovery of an empty tomb could be of any significance, but the narrator has introduced these references in such a way as not to disturb the already existing forms both of the Passion narrative and of the burial story.

He was strongly opposed to the teaching of some of his Christian contemporaries who wished to interpret the idiom of resurrection as an allegorical description of that Christian experience by which «a man, having come to the truth, has been reanimated and revivified to God, and, the death of ignorance being dispelled, has as it were burst forth from the tomb of the old man».35 Tertullian was adamant that the resurrection was in the future and to be understood in physical, fleshly terms («I pronounce that the flesh will certainly rise again»).36 In order to forestall those who could contend the impossibility of such a hope on the grounds that the decayed corpse would have long since wasted away to nothing, he pointed out that quite recently, in his city, skeletons some five hundred years old had been unearthed in a remarkable state of preservation.

Either those who affirmed that the tomb was empty lived so far away from Jerusalem or such a long time after the burial of Jesus that their statement could not be verified or else no verification was ever possible because the tomb of Jesus could not be identified.

Such an idea could well ignore any thought of the third day and the empty tomb.»

It was believed that some of these things were so foreign to God that they must simply be avoided at all costs, a tomb, for example, or the shadow of a Gentile; but that others were of such a nature that if they were ritually purified they would cease to separate man from God, household utensils, for example, or the tools of one's trade.

Mark's Gospel manifestly appeared at a time when such a question might be asked as: «Why did we not hear of this finding of the empty tomb before?

but historial facts show the church grew IMEDIATELY after Jesus... not enogh time to rot or such... he was putin a tomb anyways

Certainly it must be said that such experiences as Paul had on the Damascus road are intelligible and have often been reproduced in Christian history, but that as soon as we pass to the later writings, where the empty tomb and its related events are involved, we find ourselves amid dubious evidence and irreconcilable confusion.

Chad's «mountains of evidence» (you'll note is not empirical) includes such gems as «the historicity of an empty tomb» which of course is proof of nothing.

Even in the face of an empty tomb and testimony to Jesus» resurrection, the women can not believe in such way as to perform the most basic task of disciples: testimony.»

And as regards the appearance to Simon, the text in First Corinthians, upon closer examination, calls into question the notions (1) that such an appearance was an «event» that occurred after Jesus had physically left his tomb and (2) that Jesus was made manifest to Simon in any visible or tangible way.

Where is the section for teachings that show men as inferior such as when the first people to visit the tomb of Jesus are women and the men fail to believe them because they are sexist?

Perhaps Macarius had no such definite tradition concerning Calvary as he had for the tomb.

«They were no fools, you know, they knew all about decomposition... which is why they took such pains to wrap her [and seal her tomb].»

Yet epigraphists have found relatively few inscribed tombs for Roman infants in Italy: Just 1.3 percent of all funerary stones mark such burials.

Digging one other domestic structure and three rock - cut shaft tombs, the researchers discovered installations for cooking and storage, occupational remains such as pottery and animal bones, an iron sword, ceramic oil lamps and human bones intermixed with personal adornments and jewelry.

Certainly, the new study is bound to prompt other researchers to reexamine other early iron artifacts, such as the small iron blades, headrest, and amulet discovered in the tomb of Tutankhamen, who died around 1327 B.C.E.

Spending the night in snow tunnels may help them survive the freezing nights in the Arctic tundra, even though it would also make them vulnerable to burrowing predators, such as short tailed shrew, and could potentially leave them in an ice tomb.

There are tombs of literature on the subject of the placement of weather stations, and organisations such as BoM take extrodinary care in the placement of stations.

Perhaps the Gods should have better left Kandar rest in peace on his tomb instead of demanding such an infuriating quest of him (and you).

Veteran director Richard Fleischer (Soylent Green, Tora Tora Tora) goes for a lighter tone and more juvenile delivery, wanting to branch the franchise out to kids who read the comic books, love WWF wrestling matches, enjoyed the tomb - raiding adventures of Indiana Jones, and the similar premise of such television fare as «The Masters of the Universe.»

Explore the monuments of Fatehpur Sikri such as Buland Darwaza, Panch Mahal and Salim Chisti tomb.

Symbols adorn the graves, such as the lion etched on the tomb of Judah Loew Ben Bezalel, the chief rabbi of Prague in the 16th century.

The Dana Nature Preserve was a highlight of my recent trip to Jordan with the Wandering Trader, courtesy of the Day Trading Academy, and I am excited to now share an area overshadowed by iconic attractions such as the lowest point on earth or massive Nabatean tombs in the Petra Valley.

Basilica of Santa Croce Dedicated to the Santa Croce, the Holy Cross, the Basilica is the site of famous tombs such as the one of Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli and Foscolo.

yeah its such a good thing that microsoft just throws money @ third party pubs to keep games away from playstation i.e. tomb raider (timed) that was already going to be made anyway.

I have never seen a game with such boring enemies... jezuz even tomb raider had animals in the mix.

Sometimes you might stumble across a cave that looks exactly like every other cave or a tomb that looks just like any other tomb, but there's rarely anything interesting about them and the treasure you gain at the end is often just a few plates and idols and such that can be sold for some gold, which is fine, but after a while you start to feel the need for more interesting items and locations to make adventuring worth the time.

One such game, Lara Croft GO, features the titular Miss Croft raiding tombs at a much slower pace than normal.

Apart from the main mission, there are also challenge missions such as exploring a new tomb or using some newly acquired skill to help complete this task.

These tombs require Prince of Persia - esqe platforming and puzzle - solving to traverse, which is especially thrilling to a Prince of Persia fan such as myself.

You play as the role of Hua, who has a great talent in martial art, and will encounter exciting challenges from many different Kung Fu masters in various places of interest in ancient China, such as temple, tomb and palace.