Sentences with phrase «with ancient writings»

These massive stone monoliths are inscribed with ancient writings recording Mayan history.

«God» justifies trumping empirical evidence with ancient writings.

Not exact matches

You need to prove that evolution is a senseless myth (which is ironic given that you believe in a myth with no evidence except for ancient writings).

So also with Augustine, the North African whose writings have been more influential than those of any other ancient writer in subsequent Western theology.

It was agreed in the Samaj that «the Vedas, the Upanishads and other ancient writings were not to be accepted as infallible guides, that reason and conscience were to be the supreme authority and the teachings of the scriptures were to be accepted only insofar as they harmonised with the light within us.»

Why would they think that our holy book, the Bible, is anything more than a collection of ancient writings that has little or nothing to do with them?

In later chapters we shall show, with extracts from ancient writings, that far from there being only one view of resurrection, there was in fact a remarkable diversity in the way in which this concept was understood.

I have a high view of Scripture too, but that is NOT the same as claiming that the 66 - book anthology of ancient writings selected and assembled centuries later by men with political agendas («picking and choosing» the scriptures they liked and omitting others BTW) that we moderns call The Protestant Canon is without error.

And so it goes with the whole story and all the texts that Christians claim as evidence that are not really evidence at all, even if one were to actually have faith in ancient writings.

We need to invent a new word for people willing to believe the writings of unknown authors, of unknown origin, of an unknown but ancient time, which is badly worded, internally AND externally (with modern science) inconsistent, full of statements with no actual arguments to back them up, with the only decently educated people to back it all up are theologians who twist the meaning of words and commit logical fallacies and still only try to prove that SOMETHING must exist, not that christianity is the truth.

«Homer's Iliad is the best represented of all ancient writings, apart from the New Testament, with something like 700 manuscripts.

Also, if yr familiar with conservative scholar, Luke Timothy Johnson, the allusion to the dynamics of ancient rhetoric can be found in his writings / lectures on Paul.

We need to stop with the silly ancient writings and use our newly awakened knowledge of ourselves, science and nature to lay out our path forward.

Because the Ptolemaic era is one of ancient Egypt's most well - documented periods, the dates of major political events are known with some confidence, note the researchers, adding that what is often less clear from the ancient writings is what specific factors triggered events like revolts.

The independent institute, founded in 1917 and with a staff of 50 scholars, has a collection of 120,000 books covering Indian culture, Indus Valley civilization, Sanskrit texts, and writings on the Ayurveda, the ancient Indian system of medicine.

Sax belonged to the Golden Dawn, a real - life mystical society that combined Masonic rituals with ancient Egyptian Rosacrucion mysticism, along with other ancient mystical writings.

Axiom Verge combines the incredible explorability of a game like Super Metroid with an intriguing narrative told partially through cutscenes and partially by the ancient writings you find hidden throughout the land of Sudra.