Sentences with phrase «by mythological gods»

Not exact matches

So judgment by this purported God is not relevant as it is in the same basket as Zeus, Odin, etc., mythological judgment.

But I think there is some risk that it might be misconstrued so as to obscure certain truths which I believe to be fundamental: that the Passion is the moment at which that complete oneness with the Father which is the unique and all - pervading characteristic of the life of Jesus is paradoxically manifested; that it is at that moment, above all, that Jesus discloses to us God himself in action; that the judgement passed on Jesus and the testing brought to bear upon him are a judgement and a testing exercised (of course, within the permissive will of God) by evil men, or, to use mythological language, by the devil; and that the judgement of God pronounced at Calvary is that which Christ's accepting love passes upon those men, and upon ourselves as sharers in their sinfulness, by showing up their sin in all its hatefulness.

Well, part of the problem is that the legends in the Bible frequently exhibit mythological archetypes that have been employed by countless religions, such as the God martyred for mankind's salvation.

The mythological matrix is characterized by fluid, permeable boundaries between the realms of men, of nature, and of the gods.

Jesus is also only one of hundreds of mythological figures that pre-date him by thousands of years that were born on Christmas, had twelve apostles, started a ministry at thirty, were killed or crucified at thirty - three, rose from the grave three days later, and ascended into heaven, were called the Son of God, the Lamb of God, the Good Shepherd, etc. with the closest match being Mithras, son of the Sun God Mithra.

In one respect it helped to liberate Islam from the materialistic and mythological concepts of God by insisting on the more spiritual and abstract attributes.

But though such phrases as this help to mark out the path being taken by the resurrection idiom in its journey from a mythological cosmic setting into the Jewish national hope, we must also note carefully that now for the third time the resurrection idiom is being applied metaphorically, and to a national community rather than to either a god or a human individual.

As Yehezkel Kaufmann, one of the twentieth century's great scholars of the Hebrew Bible, explained in his magisterial book The Religion of Israel (1960), in mythological religion «the gods are subject by their nature to sexual needs.

But such a belief becomes mythological the moment it ceases to be controlled by a true conception of God.

One should not in this connection let himself be deceived by the observation that the abstract thinking of the Greeks made it possible for them to understand in its purity the essence of the spiritual, and that therefore mythological, anthropomorphic ideas of God were abandoned by the Greeks, while in Judaism naïve mythological and anthropomorphic expressions about God, although they decrease, do not by any means disappear.

Or, one might say, it is the will to shatter the false scandal constituted by the absurdity of the mythological representation of the world by a modern man and to make apparent the true scandal, the folly of God in Jesus Christ, which is a scandal for all men in all times.

What we certainly do know is that a god and / or gods are mythological characters which were created by man.

Further, faith is faith in the eschatological act of God in Jesus Christ, but that God has acted in Jesus Christ is not a fact of past history open to historical verification, and this is shown by the way in which the New Testament describes the figure and work of Christ in mythological — not historical — terms.

Years later, at a fair in Regensburg, Germany, Marius ran into the famed astronomer Johannes Kepler, who jokingly suggested the satellites instead be named after Jupiter's mythological «irregular loves» — three maidens and one youth who were seduced by the king of the gods.

Lionsgate has unleashed a second trailer for Alex Proyas» Gods of Egypt, the fanciful, colorful action - adventure epic inspired by the classic Egyptian mythological Gods.

Adapted by Hannibal's Bryan Fuller and Blade Runner sequel writer Michael Green, the series based Gaiman's book (which has the writer himself as an executive producer), chronicles the struggle between the gods of old (mythological legends from around the world) and new (reflecting modern society's love for money, technology and celebrity, among other things).

As it stands, Jason Momoa is a vaguely mythological water god person, who gets through the movie by simply being awesome.

The series also takes n interesting mythological spin by having adventurers belong to a Famili, led by a certain god.

The game is set in ancient Greece, where the generally peaceful rule of the Olympian gods is disturbed by the rise of all the mythological monsters that seem somehow organized.

Created by Hi - Rez Studios (Global Agenda, Tribes: Ascend, Paladins), it stands out mainly for its mythological theme (heroes are Gods or Immortals from the Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Hindu, Japanese, Mayan, Norse and Roman pantheons) and the third person view; it's already out on PC and Xbox One.

Players will be able to assume the roles of a number of mythological heroes include Thor, Sparticus, and Wukong, in a brawl designed by the gods in order to determine who is the greatest legend of them all.

The role of the trickster was partly inspired by the Nigerian mythological god Edshu, recognizable by his hat that was colored red on one side and blue on the other, provoking confusion and argument amongst members of a community who would disagree on the color he was wearing.

Bruce Porter (selected by Frank Stella), who uses vivid color, jagged angles and graffiti - influenced elements to invoke the clashes of Greek gods and other mythological epics.