Sentences with phrase «very ancient are»

Not exact matches

If you don't believe this ancient - looking page is legit, you can «click to hear Billy Bob holler you a welcome to his site,» which leads to an MP3 of the actor's very own confirmation.

Social media may be new, he adds, but it resembles a very ancient form of human communication.

Samhain was the original ancient name for Halloween... and as October 2011 begins, we find ourselves at the very nearest to the World of the Dead that we've been since the March 2009 lows.

The ancient agricultural farmers knew the solar cycles very well, and celebrated when the days became longer, as it is a sign that the weather will get warmer and the crops will blossom.

Modern science is the cornerstone of your belief system, as ancient writings that I consider to be God given, holy inspired and very relevant to modern times (as well as every society that ever was and will be) is the cornerstone of my belief system, because everything about this book has been accurate in every way, unlike modern science.

``... as ancient writings that I consider to be God given, holy inspired and very relevant to modern times (as well as every society that ever was and will be) is the cornerstone of my belief system, because everything about this book has been accurate in every way, unlike modern science.»

Yooz, the way you just used the word «myth» shows you can't be a very good scholar of ancient literature or religion, if you are one at all.

Canon Anna Norman - Walker, from Exeter Cathedral, told Premier: «It's a beautiful ancient building and we've got a very close relationship with it.

I actually think the article is very affirming of early Christians because it points out that their love for others and the inclusive community they created was the it - factor that awed so many in the ancient world.

«Ancient bondage» is very ambiguous and not clear enough to the people,» he said.

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.

Trying to heap an ancient written Jewish code on modern Gentile Christians (and non --RRB-, tellingly without even an understanding of said code and a complete indifference to the message of Jesus and to the accounts in the very bible being worshipped in His place.

We are back to a more ancient struggle between a world vision based upon the satisfaction of self - centered desire and another kind of vision that may seem impossibly simple because it is conceptually a very simple matter.

On a far higher level, intellectually and spiritually, is that very noble philosophical poem called the Wisdom of Solomon, and that still nobler monument of ancient Hebrew thought, the Book of Job, a dramatic dialogue in splendid and sonorous verse upon the theme of suffering and its place in a providential order.

It is beyond ridiculous to claim that the ancient Greeks had a word for homosexuality since the concept of sexual orientation was the stuff of the very distant future.

The ancient laws of Israel, some of them going back to very remote antiquity indeed, were collected, codified and annotated.

Indeed, it was the confession at baptism in the ancient church, the affirmation at the very initiation into the Church.

I have one idea of my own that will probably sound crazy, because we have this idea that ancient people were very primitive.

If the term «ecstasy» is applied at all to the giant figures in the succession from Amos to Second Isaiah, I would want to insist on Lindblom's distinction between ecstasy of the absorption type (involving loss of rational control) and that of the concentration type, and a very clear further distinction between the circumspective religion of the prophets and the more common ancient Eastern type of introspective, mystical piety.

This has been a time, finally, when the literary analysis of ancient literature has become a very significant force within the field, insisting that documents do not exist only to provide historical information, but are to be appropriated as complex works of art as well as witnesses to and interpretations of religious experiences and convictions.

The form of something, as the ancient Greek philosophers recognized, is intrinsic to its very being.

Israelite prophetism, which began to emerge as an institution in the tenth century, is indebted to the office of seer, but also, as we are about to see, to the very different phenomenon of ancient Canaanite prophetism, long current in the land when Israel entered and settled there.

Rather than go highlighting or cherry picking different stories in the ancient text that point to very disturbing characteristics, (because that would bog us down away from my point and launch a ti.t for tat against someone who has already displayed belief over evidence is what matters to him), I will add to my «doctrine» statement that has inflamed and dominated your attention.

Because they reveal Ancient Egyptian attitudes about death, and funerary items are part of the very limited historical information we have on that culture.

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.

Thus, in the very things most characteristic of the religion of ancient man, namely altars, sacrifices and temples, the prophets of Israel took the first steps in the direction of their abolition, for YHWH, being wholly different from the ancient gods, neither required the old cultic offerings, nor did He dwell in a house made by hands.

Though for us nature has been «demythologized» and «naturalized» — in large part because of this very passage of Scripture — for ancient Jewish faith a divinized nature posed a fundamental religious problem.

The sculpture of Ancient Greece, often of Olympian deities, was admired but the exuberance of much Hindu art was puzzling and Pöhlmann writes that «what is annoying about many images of the gods is their kitsch», although he adds that kitsch is a very relative term.

In ancient Hebrew culture, it was very strange for God to only have one place of worship — in the tabernacle and then later in the temple.

The evidence for exorcism as a feature of the ministry of Jesus is very strong indeed: exorcisms are to be found in every strata of the synoptic tradition, and the ancient Jewish texts regard Jesus as a miracle worker, i.e. an exorcist.

Contemporary Islamic culture is bound to the ancient Islamic culture with very close ties, but the decline between the ancient and the modern period was so am parent that contemporary Islamic culture is looked upon as a renaissance rather than a continuing growth, a renaissance which has been shaped in many ways by modernism and westernization.

Damascus, a great trading center on the western border of the Fertile Crescent, is a very ancient city — perhaps the oldest anywhere in the world which still exists — while Antioch is famous for the fact that here the followers of Christ were first called Christians.

For very ancient man, the whole world was alive with the kind of life he knew within himself.

First, N.T. Wright, Bishop of Durham, responded (Correspondence, June / July 2008) to Richard John Neuhaus» comments on his new book, Surprised by Hope, which had included a criticism that its «concrete eschatological expectation» of a physical resurrection on a perfected earth was «more suggestive of Joseph Smith than St. Paul»» noting that Mormons were simply taking seriously the relevant passages in the New Testament at the very time that «the Western Protestant church... was eliminating the ancient concrete eschatological expectation.»

The man of faith lives in the new world without appealing to the ancient gods of heaven, for the very spirit of God is within him.

It is very nice to have and in the ancient times with many unanswerable questions it was a comfort.

Perhaps a bit more severe in WWII than in ancient Egypt, but the environments would have been very comparable.

I am very sad for you, Reverend, for wasting your life over imaginary gods, prophets and ancient «scriptures.»

As in the Abraham stories, so too in the Jacob narratives, the sacredness and often the very name of ancient Canaanite sanctuaries are attributed to the visit of a patriarch to the scene, as witness, only for example, the stories of Bethel (28) and Peniel (32) This too contributes somewhat more subtly to the validation of Israel's claim.

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.

And perhaps, therefore, it is no mere coincidence that according to ancient Hindu religions, God became incarnate in the form of a black man — Krishna (the very name Krishna means «the black one»).

Someone who totally accepts ancient fairy - tales just because they're comforting and represent something with which he's been brainwashed since childhood is obviously not thinking very critically either.

The modern crisis of narrative is very different from the ancient one in that we are here dealing with artful stories, with «literature.»

Perhaps you've seen the flurry of chatter about an ancient piece of papyrus discovered by Harvard Divinity School historian Karen L. King in which the words «Jesus said to them, «My wife...,»» appear very clearly, before the sentence is broken off.

But slavery in ancient Israel was a very different sort of institution.

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.

In the fifth century Theodore found a very favourable hearing in the East Syrian Church as his teachings were very congenial to those who were reared in the ancient traditions of Ephrem and Aphrahat.

The nazis abused the swastika - a ancient hindu mystical symbol by turning it into a crooked cross and placing that symbol all over the place while committing their heinous crimes against humanity.and now if the same is done to the turban usually worn by sikhs who are very peaceful, hardworking and also very brave and honourable warriors.

If anyone will take the trouble to compare the moral teaching of, say, the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Hindus, Chinese, Greeks and Romans, what will really strike him will be how very like they are to each other and to our own.

Behind the written documents is both an ancient, oral tradition and some very particular historical circumstances and cultural phenomena which have clearly shaped the narratives.