Sentences with phrase «until about a century»

Remember, up until about a century ago, everyone, christians included, believed the Universe was infinite in time (all that is required in Christianity is that the world have a creation).

It was not until about a century after Jesus that Christians began to regard as normal an ecclesiastical structure which had bishops as its chief administrative officers.

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From the 19th century until about World War II, this was the legendary winter playground of well - to do expats.

In asking Catholics to be more like contraceptive - accepting Protestants, critics have been forgetting what Christian theologians across centuries had to say about contraception until practically the day before yesterday.

The Century heralded the birth of the Republic of South Vietnam in November of 1955 and said not another meaningful word about it until April 25, 1962, when it demanded that President Kennedy tell the truth about why «American soldiers [were] dying almost every day in South Vietnam.»

In the case of the creation story you must read it as if you were a hunter / gatherer (caveman) who did not have a concept of time (no watches, no calendars, most likely someone who didn't keep track of how old he was — think about indigenous peoples who had no contact with western civilization until the 20th century).

in the Bible it says about Jesus's second coming he would come like a theif in the night, pretty much no one can be sure when he will come, it could be tomorrow, now, next year or next century but until then trust God, keep praying, and keep spreading his word so when Jesus does come more can share in coming to Hevan and being received by the Lord!

Of course, we don't find anything specifically about guns in the Bible; they weren't invented until the 14th century A.D. Common weapons in biblical times were various types of knives, axes, spears — and especially the sword.

The word «Trinity» did not even come into Christian use until about the beginning of the third century, and it was another two centuries before the orthodox form of it was hammered out in Christian thought.

A brief recession followed, as the sixth period, from about the middle of the eighteenth century until A.D. 1815.

Even if they attempt to explain away «No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven nor the Son, but only the Father» (Mark 13:32), they can not explain away that most every Christian, theologian, scholar, and prophet from the first Century until the Nineteenth Century all believed that the church would go through the Great Tribulation and not escape through some secret rapture that would leave the world paralyzed.

Until the nineteenth century, mathematicians traditionally held that the axioms of geometry, arithmetic, and other disciplines could be established as self - evidently true statements about objects in space.

The Century published a great many articles by Reinhold Niebuhr over a period of some 15 years, until Christianity and Crisis was launched by Niebuhr and associates at about the time America became involved in World War II.

Though not actually stated in quite this fashion until the 20th century, these five statements summarize what the Reformation was about.

In The Christian Century for October 6, 1971, I hazarded some guesses about «The Shape of the Coming Renewal,» suggesting that the growing awakening among young people was only the leading edge of a glacier that would continue to move in steadily until it dominated the American ecclesiastical landscape.

Rome had their post-Greek pagan religion for about 3 - 4 centuries after Jesus death, them and the Jews also supposedly had persecuted Christians until Constantine came around and established Christianity as the main religion of Rome..

Somebody should tell «Christians» who usually know absolutely nothing about the Bible, that one man, one woman marriage based on love didn't exist as a concept until the 20th - century.

If there is inherent «wrongness» about child labor, then why has it been so prevalent until the last few centuries?

Not to put too fin a point on it, but not a single Christian was killed in those centuries for the simple reason that there were no Christians until about the middle of the 1st Century AD (CE).

James... I can certainly agree on yr point about self - deception, but remember how long it took the «entire package «to evolve as we know it today... the first list of «our 27 NT books» doesn't appear until the latter half of the 4th century and we know that many other books (that didn't make it in) were known, read and circulated for many generations after.

I knew enough about the history of astronomy to realise this was not recorded anywhere else until the 20th Century.

The debate among Christians about the meaning and nature of the resurrection of Jesus has moved from the appeal to inerrant scripture, which was regarded by most until a century ago as being quite sufficient, to the arena where the tools of historical and literary criticism are regarded as legitimate.

After that the Turks were comparatively free from European attacks for two hundred years, and did not have to face another Crusade until about the beginning of the fourteenth century (the latter half of the nineteenth century A.D.).

It certainly didn't mention that Jesus came to abolish religion and said nothing about Republicans (which wasn't invented until centuries later)....

After rising slowly until the seventeenth century, when it reached about 400 millions, the earth's population began to shoot up in an alarming fashion.

It was not until the eighteenth century that real doubt began to be raised about whether the concept of God referred to any kind of objective reality.

There is much debate about exactly where in John this particular story should have been ascribed, as it did not show up until the 5th century, but rarely any discussion about it's legitimacy.

It is not enough to reopen contacts with communist China: the public must be given a television spectacular and strong language about the 20th century's most far - reaching foreign - policy triumph — most far - reaching, that is, until the next.

Most history books, not religious ones, give evidence about how down trodden and poor the Israelites were until the later part of the 20th century.

Earlier, and until about two centuries ago, there had been a main field of inquiry known as philosophia naturalis, the philosophy of nature.

In the early part of the second century various books began to be written in Christian circles about the apostle Peter, or even in his name, until one could have collected a whole New Testament bearing his name.

While Nietzsche wrote in the middle of the nineteenth century, the news of God's demise did not reach American shores until about the 1960s.

Same sexual orientation was not studied the way we understand it today until the 19th century, that speech is only about male and female relationships, there's no mention of same sex.

I looked it up online, and it was very popular in the 14th century, and was still in use by some in Great Britain up until about 20 years ago, but almost nobody uses it today.

Until he took on the herculean task of combing through over a century's worth of menus from L.A. restaurants to see if he could learn something about the city's history.

Potatoes were introduced into China about the same time but did not become popular until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when French missionaries grew them and touted their importance in feeding the masses.

I found an apartment down the hill from the town center and still had some time to visit the bullring and its bullfighting and duel museum (a legal means of resolving a dispute until the mid-19th century), then sniff around local restaurants for clues about the location of the ranch.

In the United States that age used to be about 24 months till about the middle of the last century; now however, the age for expectation of a child to be potty trained has risen to about 36 months and nighttime accidents are actually considered normal until a child reaches 5 or 6 years of age.

I have been concerned for some time about the niqab and the burqa, but it was not until I took my children to the play area in my local park recently and saw a woman wearing a full burqa that it came home to me how inappropriate and, frankly, offensive it is for people to wear that apparel in the 21st century and especially in Britain.

Although 18th and 19th century archaeologists had discovered plenty of diseased remains at prehistoric sites in the Americas, they found no traces of the disease in European bones until a major epidemic hit Europe about 1500, just after Columbus returned from his 1493 voyage.

Until the close of the nineteenth century there was no part of the world about which less was known, and none about which so little interest was taken.

Until a year ago, little was known about Roman Gernsheim even though Roman finds have repeatedly been made here since the 19th century.

That worked from the late 20th Century until about six years ago when Xcm bacterial blight again showed up in force on the cotton crop in Texas and other states, wasting even varieties that previously could ward it off.

THE Black Death infamously wiped out about a third of Europe's population in the 14th century, but until now there was no firm evidence that bubonic plague was the cause.

However, few records about the plant exist until much later, when interest was revived in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Harvesting techniques that allowed for commercial exportation of camu camu may not have come about until the latter part of the 20th century, but countries that benefit from its wild growth have made up, economically, for that lost time.

Think about this: certain chronic diseases that are now epidemics were a rare occurrence until the mid-20th century.

Those didn't enter our diets until about the last century.

[font = Century Gothic] «Once in a Lifetime» is a flashy and mildly interesting documentary about the rise and fall of the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League which was a moribund, semi-pro league until Warner Communications CEO Steve Ross stepped in and brought Brazilian soccer great Pele to New York.

That is, until I talked to our own Zach Gayne and then read his review out of SXSW, which concluded: «The Disaster Artist is not only far funnier than you might expect, it's also far deeper than a film about the worst movie of the 21st century has any right to be.»