Sentences with phrase «very early»

Even though children perceive relationships, especially inclusion and exclusion, at very early ages, this fact is disregarded.

«St Paul, a very early Christian writer and the most influential saint of Christianity, wrote in 1 Thessalonians 2:14 - 16»... the Jews, who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us.

Mark 1:35 (NIV): «Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.»

In the very early Church, before Christianity was called Christianity it was called, quite simply, the Way.

They were accustomed, he discovered, to meet on a fixed day very early in the morning, to sing hymns responsively to Christ «as to a god,» and to bind themselves by a solemn oath, not (as he had apparently expected) to some nefarious crime, but to keep the moral law: not to rob or steal, not to commit adultery, not to defraud.

In the very early stages, when a comprehensive theory and its development into a research programme are first proposed, empirical criteria seldom have a predominant role.

As such it emerged very early in the course of animal life.

But I came to see that what was important was neither what I had been taught as a child when my brother and sister died at a very early age nor what would provide some immediate comfort to me when (as was bound to happen and of course did happen some years later) my parents also died, leaving me with no close living relations.

From very early times Adiabene in the northeast, along with Edessa and Nisibis in the north west and around Seleucia - Ctesiphon in the south, had been major centres for the Jews in the East.

The other view is that the church was founded in India at a very early date (during the course of the first three centuries) by Christians from East Syria.

These three little clusters are so close to each other in meaning that the Matthean community put them all together, perhaps at a very early date, into what we know as the Sermon on the Mount.

What you continually, and I do mean continually, avoid, is that their slaves were PROPERTY, and I asked you very early on whether slavery (the owning of another person) was always wrong.

Those who practice the true sence of Christianity, must practice it plainly and humbly... like the Amish, others surrender their comfort to help others like getting up very early to volunteer to help feed others not as fortunately, go where disaster strikes like hurricanes to assist those in need.

All the data points to a big bang very early in our observable universe's history, but we don't know why.

And somewhere along the way, very early on, I imagine, we learned to take good things and mess them up — sex, food, people.

She comes very early to be identified as a converted prostitute with long, flowing and usually red hair, who just before his last trip to Jerusalem anoints Jesus» head (or feet) with an expensive ointment and to the end of her long life remains a somewhat disturbed penitent.

Whitehead» s religiously - guided education might have been unsuited for modern times, yet it is fair to say that his profound philosophical development had its beginning in some very early insights, for example, the concept of the consequent nature of God and the evidence of God's presence in the pattern of beauty in mathematics.

There are more than 25,000 copies of these gospels from very early in the church history.

One writer describes it as «still dark» (John 20:1), another says it was «very early in the morning» (Luke 24:1), and another says it was «just after sunrise» (Mark 16:2).

Here we are bound to raise the most serious questions concerning the doctrine and practice of the Lord's Supper whereby very early the Agape and the Eucharist were sundered,

Nevertheless, this very early poem makes clear how the turn (or return) to God wounds our nature.

The text is written in Medieval Latin and features blackletter typeface, layout and red paragraph which signify very early western European printing.

This preoccupation with the person can be partly explained by the fact that Christianity moved very early into Greek environment.

For example, there are claims that certain people in the very early church suppressed certain writings, changed certain writings and even produced writings purporting to be from the hands of Paul or the Apostles.

There it was natural to begin with the history, for while some very early folksongs antedate any written history and the prophecy of Amos was the earliest complete book, an important part of the history found in the Old Testament was written before any other major type of literature emerged.

I wasn't going to write anything about this, but then I decided to do a bit of Google research on this author, and I discovered that very early this year, he did in fact briefly mention my posts on one of his social media accounts.

The historical Buddha very early in his discourses it should be recalled, admonished those who would uncritically entertain such notions as fatalism, chance, and divine fiat in understanding the experiential process.

It's also really illuminating, I think, to realize that very early on our ancestors, meaning the people who created scripture, metaphorized their history, and we have often then historicized their metaphors.

This being so, it is an important fact that this very early account of Easter makes no mention of the tomb being found empty.

In fact it is more likely that evolution can continue indefinitely (within the parameters established by the laws of thermodynamics), and for all we know, the present moment may still be very early in the full unfolding of the universe.

By proceeding on the assumption that people are what they are to a large degree because of their basic character structure, a structure which was formed in the very early years of life, psychotherapy has been able to release many from the vicious cycle of guilt and compulsion which has made self - determination impossible.

This episode is, no doubt, the same as that appearance to Peter which comes first in Paul's list in Corinthians, and is thus part of the very early tradition.

Because we have very early copies in the original languages.

These molecular switches are usually erased very early in the developmental process, but they can be passed down from generation to generation, too, Rice said.

The exodus found a brief «confessional» formulation very early in Israel's life as a people.

They are all clearly independent of the very early tradition recorded by Paul, and in some respects are very difficult to reconcile with it.

Well, if you want to broaden it to an awareness of some manifestation of «cool Christianity,» I think that I started noticing it very early on... such as when I started getting into Christian rock in middle school, or going to concerts and festivals where, alongside the typical Sunday School nerdy kids there were also kids with tattoos, mohawks, goth makeup, etc..

Our own existence here and now in the twentieth century of the Christian era is possibly still very early in the unfolding of the universe.

Firstly, it must be remembered, that he disclaims very early in the book that he can only speak for the mainline denominations with which he is familiar, and although my memory may fail me, he implies that he can only speak for his observations of the churches / leaders with whom he is familiar, and also that he may be wrong, and also, that he is only pointing out what he calls a possible cause for the problems he has seen, and hopes that his suggestions / ideas, will be considered, researched, etc, and that time will tell if his thesis bears any truth or not.

It began very early.

Pastor Richard, later Father Richard» and of those two titles, I knew him longer under the first than the second» seems to have had from very early years a sharp sense of «living toward death.»

Yet there developed very early in the church a strain of asceticism which treated sexuality as a concession to the weakness of the flesh.

Jesus himself was reported to have said that «where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them,» (Matthew 18:20) and very early in the New Testament's narrative we are made aware of a strong, corporate solidarity in the nascent churches.

According to John, very early on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from its entrance.

From a very early age she suspected she didn't fit in.

From a very early age, I was always instinctively caring, loving and compassionate..

From a very early age, we learn that when we are sick, the first thing to do is «go to mom» who may not have a single hour of professional medical training, but can nevertheless help us better and more quickly than any doctor.

Charles was a clever child, and after local schooling, he and a friend were sent at the very early age of fifteen to University College London, in Gower Street.

Even the very early Christians could thus conceive themselves as children of the church rather than as its creators.

I learned from blacks, at a very early age, that whites were manipulative, selfish, always out for «their damn selves» and NOT to be trusted.