sublunar
IPA: sʌbɫʌnɝ
adjective
- Situated beneath the Moon.
- Of this world; earthly.
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Examples of "sublunar" in Sentences
- But love is not limited to the sublunar world.
- The deity has delegated to the stars the governance of the sublunar world.
- Though Doherty makes his case from other verses of Hebrews that it took place in the sublunar realm.
- All generation and corruption occurred in the 'sublunar' region, below the Moon and above the Earth. "
- Was it Kephas, James and the others who taught Paul that there was more to the heavenly Lord than a voice from heaven or a vision from the sublunar spheres?
- The world is a world of consequences, and the consequences of our ignorance and imprudence would certainly provide a comprehensive theory to explain sublunar life.
- It takes quite a stretch of imagination to get from Golgotha to the sublunar spheres and claim that it is a plausible reading of the storyline as well as a good weighing of the overall evidence.
- If Biblekritik or Doherty can show me examples that Jews in the 1st century or earlier believed that Psalm 8 was about a place other that Earth inhabited by humans or a sublunar sphere then they are free to present the evidence.
- Your messages to me and James makes it quite apparent that you are arguing along the same lines as Doherty - that nothing in Hebrews indicates that the author has placed his hero on another place than an sublunar sphere or heaven.
- One of the parallels that strikes me is the lack of humility or at least self-awareness in the attempts to disassemble a large body of academic literature, rather than publishing - say - an article on Paul's conception of the archons as sublunar demons or docetic christology in GThom.
- What Doherty has to explain satisfactorily is how an allusion to Psalm 8 verse 3-5, a passage that was widely understood by Jews to be a reference to humans on earth, would lead us to believe that the author of Hewbrews was actually alluding to a crucified fellow in the sublunar sphere.
- I suppose it is because you haven´t read Paul´s letters close enough or because you may find arguments from mythicists persuasive that Paul´s references about things like the divore command coming from the "Lord" is not really coming from an earthly Jesus but coming from the sublunar Lord.
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