Sentences with phrase «christian myth»

«If you like Indiana Jones action, a Lara Croft style heroine and a mystery steeped in Christian myth and mysticism, then Pentecost is the book for you.Full of fast - paced action this book hits the ground running from the beginning.»

His best work, stuff like the short stories «In the Hills, the Cities» and «Human Remains,» or his audacious retelling of the Christian myth Imajica, are engorged with sensuality — alight with perversity and all manner of fetishistic penetrations.

But under this stress, I can't imagine why my mind would twist itself into believing the christian myth any more than it would Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny.

The Christian myth of divne justice is simply an escuse designed to overcome feelings of unfairness.

hence the christian myth was rooted in the Jewish one... more details in the CM book..

The christian myth is immoral and absurd.

«The real and only permanent solution to the problem of anti-semitism,» Maccoby writes, «is to dismantle the Pauline Christian myth of atonement» and what he calls «the mythic resurrection.»

Luther's mind continually came back to that which had been central to his life for so long, the principal liturgical action of the Christian Myth, the Mass..

and Greeks and Romans believed in their god's with the same commitment as some people believe the Christian myth.

The dying person may be influenced by the Christian myth of hell — So they buy their way out, a young lover — who finds them hot at the age of 90, or a cat — That will be taken to the pound upon the person's death.

and so sad for many more... The christian myth is a scam..

on his research on the christian myth.

the christian myth was created as a joke tool too, besides a political tool for the Roman Flavian Family.

I encourage anyone that still believes in the Christian myth to at least go ahead and read The God Delusion by Dawkins.

So the sacraments of the church are primary formal expressions — that is, art — of the essential statement of the Christian myth.

Barth's rejoinder to Bultmann contained, however, the seed of a more promising orthodox approach to Christian myth.

What is the relation of these myths to Christian myth?

Put differently, Christian myth works on us as a Word of God in forms that limited human understanding can appropriate.

Thus when a philosopher like Heidegger or Kamlah «sets forth in purely philosophical grounds a «secularized» Christian understanding of existence,» one should not assume that they are doing so independently of the Christian myth.

He was also at home in the architectonic structure of Christian thought, the system of implications of the Christian myth.

Thus we have suggested appropriate ways of talking about God, and a way of understanding Jesus the Christ in a functional manner, and ways of reinterpreting Christian Myth.

read the book... it tells how the ROMAN Flavian family created the christian myth using the Jewish myth as its root and why....

Then read Caesar's Messiah by Joseph Atwill on the christian myth..

the christian myth is a scam... a lie... a political tool just as it is used today... That is why it was created..

He recognizes the importance of Judaism from which many of the antecedents of early Christian myth and understanding of history came from.

Believing in a death myth or the supernatural does not make it real... fanciful stories... of the supernatural are not real... Read Caesar's Messiah by Joseph Atwill on how the Christian myth was created from the Jewish one....

It is important to note the obvious: major aspects of the story of Jesus can not be included as Christian Myth for the simple reason that they are very probably true.

The miracle stories are among the very first to come to mind when we speak of Christian Myth.

There are two other concepts in particular that do not fit neatly into one of the foregoing three clusters but which we need to consider as possibilities for Christian Myth.

Can we use them constructively as Christian Myth?

Atonement conceived of in this way has no place in Christian Myth or Christian anything else.

We are claiming it for our own, using the concept of «Christian Myth» to mean something valuable and meaningful to us.

Interpreted in this way they are a valuable part of the Christian Myth.

But this, then, qualifies these statements to be part of the Christian Myth, as long as they can promote Christian themes.

After considering these three clusters, we will then look at a couple of other concepts that are ideal candidates for inclusion as Christian Myth.

the Romans used that word to assist in creating the Christian myth.

The claims made of Jesus» perfection or sinlessness constitute a fourth part of the life and ministry cluster of Christian Myth.

This is all neither terribly difficult nor very mysterious, as we shall see as we now proceed to look at some important parts of Christian Myth.

There are two possible ways that the Trinity might function as Christian Myth to symbolize Christian themes for us.

The central element of the resurrection — Jesus of Nazareth's triumph over death — does not qualify as Christian Myth for the simple reason that we claim it is true.

(3) Once our theology and faith themes are established, those stories and themes about Jesus which we do not claim as factual, but which are consistent with our faith themes, can be used as Christian Myth to illustrate, illuminate, and emphasize these themes.

The life and ministry cluster of Christian Myth includes the miracle stories, prophecies and messianic claims erroneously attributed to Jesus, and claims of his perfection or sinlessness.

The principal elements in the death and resurrection cluster of the Christian Myth are (A) his death as sacrifice and atonement, and (B) the «magical» elements of the resurrection stories.

As Christian Myth, without affronting our common sense, it can signify and help us to grasp these important truths.

To classify a story or theme as Christian Myth is therefore not at all to dismiss it but rather to elevate it to a special status.

Can the devil be a part of the Christian Myth?

Do we need to create a different kind of «red letter edition» in which we print in red not the words of Jesus but instead all those passages that qualify as Christian Myth?

If these parts of the story are not viewed as Christian Myth, however, but are claimed as true, then they distract from the message and in fact impede access to it for many people.

Do the miracle stories, then, qualify as Christian Myth?

We must see if miracle stories meet the four criteria we have established for Christian Myth.