Sentences with phrase «because he supernatural»

And to say that some land is yours because a supernatural being says so, well, you can hardly expect anyone who doesn't believe in your supernatural being to agree with that reasoning.

Jesus knows how much money is put in the box not because he supernatural knowledge but probably because the amount of gift was called out by the priests.

The religious emphasis on otherworldly beliefs evolved, Wilson says, because supernatural explanations seem to motivate human cooperation better than factual ones.

Not exact matches

This was done because Jefferson believed that some Christian teachings were correct, however, being a man of reason, he rejected the supernatural portions which were pure iron age fairy tale.

Truth be told, Christ has already returned and the vast number of Christians missed Him, because they looked for a supernatural event that never was to be the method of His return.

I realize that many people can not rationalize what I am saying because you refuse to entertain the idea that there is a supernatural God who can communicate interdimensionally, but I have to be honest.

I don't see it anywhere, but that is because I don't equate the supernatural acts of God with that of magic.

That is because the argument I'm making at his point in time is not for Christianity, but rather for the existence of the supernatural and the existence of God.

You are running away because you can not prove your basic underlying belief — a childish belief in supernatural deities — and you can not explain how your deity is powerless to control its cult members, never mind all of humanity.

When it says that as an atheist I disbelieve in God, its because I reject religion and God (in this case, the god of abraham), where as I still am open to the possibilty of there being a god, or supernatural diety.

At most, god does exist because we find active evidence proving there was some sort of divine hand in the origin of life, which then leads us on the hunt for more evidence of that same gods existance throughout the fossil record and most likely will lead us to prove that the god of abraham is STILL man - made, but there is some other supernatural power out there.

Becky «@bob: i have a hard time with no «should» and no «right»... maybe that's my evangelical up - bringing coming out, but it seems to me that there is a reality that exists, and i would really like to know what that reality is, and whether supernatural / spiritual / whatever is there or not, because it seems that it makes a whole lot of difference»

Theo and Vic What you are saying is we don't know what the first cause could possibly be, but because we believe in a supernatural god we will give him the distinction of creating the first cause.

1) nothing in this physical universe is the reason for its own existence 2) A causal chain exists 3) no causal chain is of infinite length 4) Only the supernatural (that which exists outside of physical reality) can be the ultimate cause of all physical reality 5) That supernatural cause could not itself have a cause, because infinite causal chains do not exist 6) This eternal, supernatural enti.ty we call, God.

A totally random natural event is given supernatural reference because it hit a cliche statue of some dude.

4) Only the supernatural (that which exists outside of physical reality) can be the ultimate cause of all physical reality 5) That supernatural cause could not itself have a cause, because infinite causal chains do not exist 6) This eternal, supernatural enti.ty we call, God.

Because textual criticism says the Bible is no different than any other book, and strips it of its supernatural properties.

if you think you are dignified because you are willing to vote for a war country and president, how is it that arent willing to move first to that region of the world and distribute the word of God and rely on supernatural spiritual redemption.

@bob: i have a hard time with no «should» and no «right»... maybe that's my evangelical up - bringing coming out, but it seems to me that there is a reality that exists, and i would really like to know what that reality is, and whether supernatural / spiritual / whatever is there or not, because it seems that it makes a whole lot of difference

5) That supernatural cause could not itself have a cause, because infinite causal chains do not exist — let's suppose for the sake of argument that the chain of causation has to stop somewhere; it is just as legitimate to suppose that it stops with the Universe, or that your supernatural being is not the final link in the chain

«That supernatural cause could not itself have a cause, because infinite causal chains do not exist «Well, even if we accept your appeal to mysticism, why could your god not itself have a creator.

When someone has an experience he can't explain, it's creepy because they can't explain it, not because it's supernatural.

Charge Nurse Betty Charge Nurse Betty wrote me this, «Of GODDESS and by Goddess we of womanliness are not gods because there is Only That Which Is, and therefore Natural, and Not supernatural, as the electron goeth Not around backwards.

But even the more conservative wings of the Wesleyan tradition (which because of their basically orthodox stance and their commitment to a «supernatural» articulation of Christian faith, have often felt some affinity with the fundamentalist wing of modem Protestantism) have not been able to find a home in the circles of either modem fundamentalism or more recently in neo-evangelicalism.

That will never happen because that would involve admitting it has no supernatural basis at all.

You have eye witness accounts in the bible, you have present day people telling you he's there, knowing he's there, not belief, knowing, you have vast supernatural events like the big bang that happened once and never again, you have life starting up, species forming, male and female that have to be there for offspring, and lo and behold... you deny all of them because God being there, isn't what you wanted.

An ordinary reader might think that Martin's argument for openness to supernaturalism is intended to give aid to conservative Christians who reject secular scholarship because, they argue, the believing historian is just as justified in bringing her faith in supernatural intervention to life - of - Jesus research as the secular historian is in rejecting it.

Meanwhile we have believerfred that has his oh so supernatural god that can change the natural laws of the universe at whim; why because it says so in a 2000 year old book of myths, so there take that.

By the way, atheists are not idolitors because that would involve supernatural belief in an idol.

Because Lewis has kept the action in this novel on the supernatural level, in the nontemporal, a-historical Eden, he can affirm life here; but the contrast between Malacandra and earth is such that human life is seen as brutal and brutish.

Which is kind of weird because if we could actually observe the supernatural then it would have to become part of our reality and thus be natural.

Perhaps you simply can't understand, or don't want to understand, because your world view is so entrenched in belief of the supernatural.

The answer is, he was recognized, even by the demons, who had supernatural insight, and by his disciples, through faith; and yet the disciples were forbidden to declare it, and the demons were silenced; and if the Jews as a whole did not recognize him, it was because their eyes too were «holden,» and because they were already bringing upon themselves a judgment for their sins.

Because primitive men fear thunder and lightning, certain kinds of animals, and dead things, they may ascribe supernatural powers to them.

An answer that doesn't seem to have been mentioned is that such huge displays of supernatural influence are unecessary now because, in fact, they aren't required.

Bigfoot or aliens... those are different because the people seeking those aren't seeking anything supernatural, they're seeking something essentially mundane (biological organisms that haven't been disocvered yet).

«Huge displays of supernatural influence are unecessary now because, in fact, they aren't required»...?

well because the bible is a prophetic supernatural revelation, and the flood is no different than one single divine prophechy, no different than the resurrection, and no different than the fact that evil exists supernaturally.

The recent Nigerian immigrants ate it because they thought it would give them supernatural powers.

It is a supernatural relationship because it refers to the disposition of man's soul without affecting what man is in his human nature.

I don't fear he'll because I don't believe in it or anything else supernatural.

Thus many gods were created because they couldn't perceive of one god being able to do all the things they saw a supernatural power doing.

(and really because we are not talking about the supernatural parts here, what does it matter?)

He is: • Supernatural in nature (as He exists outside of His creation) • Incredibly powerful (to have created all that is known) • Eternal (self - existent, as He exists outside of time and space) • Omnipresent (He created space and is not limited by it) • Timeless and changeless (He created time) • Immaterial (because He transcends space) • Personal (the impersonal can't create personality) • Necessary (as everything else depends on Him) • Infinite and singular (as you can not have two infinites) • Diverse yet has unity (as nature exhibits diversity) • Intelligent (supremely, to create everything) • Purposeful (as He deliberately created everything) • Moral (no moral law can exist without a lawgiver) • Caring (or no moral laws would have been given)

Chad can and will never prove the supernatural, no matter how many times you ask, because it is not there.

Nor is it fair to claim that, because some churches perform acts of charity or goodness, their underlying supernatural beliefs are any less silly.

Because there are credible explanations for most of those objects and phenomenon based on science and I have seen no credible evidence for any supernatural being, God or otherwise.

We are frustrated with church because we deny, or at least trivialize, the power of the supernatural.

You said,» (2) Presupposes a world where there can be no supernatural or yet - to - now undiscovered superpower could ever direct or change everything, because it is impossible for us to be decieved or fooled about our apparent intellectual and technological superiority in the universe.»

(2) Presupposes a world where there can be no supernatural or yet - to - now undiscovered superpower could ever direct or change everything, because it is impossible for us to be decieved or fooled about our apparent intellectual and technological superiority in the universe.