Sentences with phrase «today is ancient»

So much of what's taught today is ancient.

I think that will be very clear to everyone that the predominant religions of today is ancient beliefs that might have been reasonable at the time when they were written, but that was more than 1,600 years ago and we have learnt a lot since, even though I sometimes question that when I see what is going on in the world.

Not exact matches

Today, most businesses still use these ancient artifacts because for years, faxing was the only way to exchange documents that needed signing or reading.

You see, the same problem existed in ancient Babylon that existed in 1926 and still exists today: most people are broke.

While ancient Greek prognosticators were famous for their cryptic suggestions, readers today expect (and are willing to pay for) a substantially clearer message.

Today, its rich history can be gleaned from its ancient streets, which feel like open - air museums with their striking medley of medieval, baroque and postmodern architecture, and in its (distinctively British) customs (think: afternoon tea and driving on the left side of the road).

My theory: Even though we aren't often subjected to physical harm today, this ancient survival mechanism remains.

And this ancient and concise nugget is no less wise and important today, says organizational psychologist Tasha Eurich.

Knowledge progresses, and it's quite likely that in a few years today's frameworks will be viewed as an ancient system on the way to the then - current version of truth.

His other books include Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy — and What We Can Do About It, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (McGraw - Hill Professional); Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets are Moral and Big Government Isn't, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, August 2012); How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, November 2009); and Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today... and the Lessons You Can Learn, co-authored by John Prevas (Crown Business, June 200are Moral and Big Government Isn't, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, August 2012); How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, November 2009); and Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today... and the Lessons You Can Learn, co-authored by John Prevas (Crown Business, June 200Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, November 2009); and Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today... and the Lessons You Can Learn, co-authored by John Prevas (Crown Business, June 2009).

Hey Zeus (someone about whom schoolchildren today no nothing because, y» know dude, ancient Greeks were misogynists)... I don't claim Bush or the statist NCLB legislation which he passed to please Laura, or the Iraq war, which he caused to please Poppy, or his Prescription Drug Bennie which he passed to buy senior votes.

Today we have science dictating our Lives when it is the tool of the devil and leads to more Sin, than ancient torture methods ever did.

Ancient Christian so - called persecution at the hands of Romans is also used today as an excuse to persecute others who don't adhere to their beliefs, even by violent means.

If the ancient world was anything like some places today, I'm sure there was a large degree of persecution.

There is Another Testament on earth today, called the Book of Mormon (like the books in the bible it is a collection of ancient prophets speaking about their day and prophesying about our day).

Most of them are perfectly aware that the stories of the Bible was written in historically ancient time with very different customs than our own that are not applicable to today's society.

YOU may be a jewish priest, but I am not, and the laws for such ancient priests do not apply to, not are they adhered to by, ANY Christians today.

Gambling your soul away on a guess based on ancient texts out of fear of torture doesn't sound logical at all, especially considering how many other versions of the scriptures have been found and conflict with today's bible.

Since the stories of the Bible remain so central to who we are as a culture, even today (and even for those who dismiss it), it seems entirely fitting that we should be equally interested in the ancient people who composed them.

First of all, both the East and the West were the heirs to the Bible and to the ancient Church, which in both worlds refer beyond themselves to an origin that lies outside today's Europe, namely in Palestine.

Though the lands at the heart of today's Europe were completely outside of the visual field of the ancient historian, the formation of the Hellenistic states and the Roman Empire led to the establishment of a «continent» that would be the basis for the later Europe.

Ancient Israel confronts us both, revealing once again: These wars today aren't holy.

John Montague's searching for light in darkness, his helping us to find it, helps us even now as we struggle to answer the obverse of that ancient philosopher's question — today, why is there nothing rather than something?

The ancient city of Smyrna, located on the site of today's Izmir in Turkey, the gateway to Asia and stepping - stone to Europe, is sacred soil because of what happened there one Sunday, around 2:00 in the afternoon, in February of the year 155.

The equivaltent to this stoning by ancient Israel is the exclusion from the Church (the spiritual Israel) today, which can also cause the physical death (worst case) of the sinner, which does not want to repent.

They are generally based on ancient books full of known fallacies that followers still believe today.

According to Walton, attempts to mine the ancient text for answers to today's scientific questions amounts to what is called concordism, which holds that the Bible must agree --(be in concord with)-- all the findings of contemporary science.

They are not generally based on ancient books full of known fallacies that followers still believe today.

The Christology being developed today in Africa, Latin America and Asia is likely to promote as heated arguments as any that shook the Church in the ancient world.

«4 This desire to look for the presence of God is not only an ancient and medieval problem but is the search of millions of people today.5

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

We are still at war, of course, but the situation of the Church has materially altered, and I suspect that, by comparison to the burden the First Commandment lays upon us today, the defeat of the ancient pantheon, and the elemental spirits, and the demons lurking behind them will prove to have been sublimely easy.

Today I want to introduce you to a pastor and a church that might be characterized by some as «nontraditional,» but that seem to me to be modeling a very ancient way of doing church.

Ancient Israelites accepted a completely different cosmological paradigm than we do today, and the Old Testament was written within that context.

That is a bronze age superstition common to all religions of ancient times and many fundamentalist Neanderthals today.

That is an ancient doctrine of the faith, but too often today people shy away from it and try to mitigate the revealed truth that a religious vocation is more perfect than any secular life can be.

Ancient Hebrews didn't have the same taxonomy that we have today, and many things were classified by function or form.

The more you know about science today and the religions of the ancient world, the less it is possible to believe what you were taught as a child, even if you wanted to.

And if we study ancient history we find that today America mirror Rome right before it's fall.

Today, many are wary that the study of ancient and contemporary rhetoric will cause their preaching to become pompous, rigid and loaded with false gimmickry.

My contention is that this places Ivan's sensibility much nearer to the authentic vision of the New Testament than are many of the more pious and conventional forms of Christian conviction today The gospel of the ancient church was always one of rebellion against those principalities and powers — death chief among them — that enslave and torment creation; nowhere does the New Testament rationalize evil or accord it necessity or treat it as part of the necessary fabric of God's world.

Same for «moral compasses», if you set them by ancient morals, where morals use to be long ago, it will only get you off course today.

The ancient people, like many today, would not be prone to distinguish sharply between morality and religion.

Today's supposed Christians are more like ancient Israel's Pharisees... whom even Christ denounced.

The knowledge we have today can't be compared to ancient harmful and ignorant myths, although I admit that being ignorant must feel very comfortable for some and I think people are free and have the right to be stupid, but no one has the right to make it sound as though their personal nonsense is the universal and inflexible truth.

So when the Bible condemns some activities that were being done in ancient Israel, should we assume that it also condemns these differently contextualized activities today?

The context is not ancient history, in the life of the believer Christian or not, as they live today.

So, today's doubters need to be pressed hard as to why, if the alternative versions of Jesus (mystic, moral teacher, misguided healer) advanced over the last few centuries can be taken seriously, it never occurred to any sceptic in the ancient world to make these very obvious challenges.

For example, the theory of evolution is contradicted by the existence of technically advanced pyramids that we could not even re-create today, or by ancient hieroglyphics that depict our solar system before Galileo ever made his discoveries, whereas these things fit perfectly well within the Christian account that acknowledges the antediluvian and / or pre-Adamic worlds.

Cause if yeshua was here today I believe he would follow the laws of Moses and the prophets and still do the holy days of ancient Israel.