Again, the Bible tells of the visits to Abraham and others
by supernatural beings known as angels; however, they were really messengers from outer space who were trying to influence the course of human affairs according to God's interplanetary directives.
Not exact matches
Any legitimate scientist
knows that ID
is not a scientific theory since
supernatural beings,
by definition,
are not part of the natural world which science describes.
In its intrinsic
supernatural reality, marriage includes three goods: the good of exclusive, personal, reciprocal fidelity (the bonum fidei), the good of welcoming children and educating them to
know God (the bonum prolis), and the good of the indissolubility or indestructibility of the bond, the permanent foundation of which
is the indissoluble union of Christ and the Church, which
is sacramentally represented
by the marriage (the bonum sacramenti).
The result
is that God can
be known by our reason, even without the help of
supernatural revelation.
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)
John Oman ended his masterly book on The Natural and the
Supernatural with these words: «If we would have any content in the eternal, it
is from dealing wholeheartedly with the evanescent; if we would have any content in freedom it
is by victory both without and within over the necessary; if we would have any content in mind and spirit we must
know aright
by valuing aright.
Scientism claims that the natural world
is all there
is, that
supernatural explanations of the world
are irrational, that everything can
be reduced to physical causes, and that the only things we can
know as true
are those which Science reveals — supported
by evidence, submitted to experimentation, and reviewed
by peers.
God
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)
the belief on the existence of the devil
was concieved
by theologians of the past thousands of years, there
was no other way of explaining the bad experiences of people in the past because we
were not educated yet to the kind of what we have now, Why this happened because that
was part of the learning process that God wants us to
know, in pathrotheism, we
are part of God, and He himself
is evolving because He
is the universe, We
are now the conscious part of Him, our destiny in accordance to his will also
be His destiny because it
is His will.Although He prepared first all the material reality of the universe ahead of us, The experiences for us humans including the
supernatural is just part of nirmal process for learning because its natural process, today we reach a point of not believing the practices of the past, but it does not mean its wrong, Just like a child, adults loved to tell mythical stories to them, because we
knew children enjoys it as part of their learning process.
(maybe a
supernatural power but I
know it
's not some sandal footed guy who
was magically created
by this superfly guy who sent part of himself our way about what 2K + years ago)..
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.
We have proof that the
supernatural can not
be known or knowable and that man can only explain the created things through and
by created things.
Among them
were pantheism and the positions that human reason
is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ
is a myth; that philosophy must
be treated without reference to
supernatural revelation; that every man
is free to embrace the religion which, guided
by the light of reason, he believes to
be true; that Protestantism
is another form of the Christian religion in which it
is possible to
be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states
are educated must
be by the civil power; that the Church should
be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it
is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should
no longer
be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»
A dysfunctional family Christmas turns into a holly jolly horrorfest when they
are joined
by an uninvited guest: a
supernatural anti-Santa
known as Krampus.
They don't
know it yet, but each of these strangers
is connected
by a disturbing, decades - old secret — a mystery that holds the key to a series of terrifying
supernatural events.
When she unwittingly unleashes a violent entity
know as the poltergeist of Borely Forest, Paige
is haunted
by a mysterious
supernatural curse.
Their enemies - now called the Black Dragon Clan -
are lead
by «a
supernatural scourge»
known as Skullmageddon.
I should probably state now that
by «
supernatural» I
'm referring to any films involving vampires, zombies or werewolves, because no matter how much pseudo-scientific nonsense
is thrown at us we all
know that those classic monster - baddies will forever belong in the
supernatural category.
This
supernatural horror flick starring Ethan Hawke
is directed
by Scott Derrickson who
is best
known for his film, The Exorcism of Emily Rose.
Initially, it
's left up to us to decide whether Jack
's visions
are mental delusions, or actual evidence of the afterlife, although the other characters, including Jack
's sister (Lily Cole) and psychiatrist (Joely Richardson),
are understandably sceptical — after all, they don't
know they
're in a «psychological thriller», or whatever nomenclature
supernatural horror films currently go
by when they
're aimed at the mainstream.
The earliest
known reference
being in an anthology of fables from 1052 that tells of a dishonest merchant who swindles the king
by pretending to weave a
supernatural garment that can not
be seen or touched
by any person of illegitimate birth.
These cases and others — from the commonly
known (Alzheimer's disease) to the highly unusual (Ecstatic epilepsy, in which seizures convey a feeling of transcendent joy) to the almost
supernatural (the Doppelganger effect, where people see and interact with a duplicate of their own body)--
are linked, Ananthaswamy suggests,
by the simple fact that each condition involves disruptions in an area of the brain where the «self»
is thought to reside.
This tone
is established from the beginning with a prologue so dark that,
by the time 8 - year - old Colby Stephens extracts a wish from a stranger to «show [him] everything
supernatural,» the reader
knows that nothing heartwarming this way comes.
Supernatural is known for a lot of things — creative monsters, the world's hottest main cast, hilarious dialogue, unapologetic Fourth Wall breaking — but the reason it
was recommended to me
by my writing sensei
was because it had a lot to teach me about writing.
Taking place almost exclusively in an All - Girls school, main character Hinako
is pulled into a space
known as «The Common»
by her adjacent classmates Yuzu and Lime - a
supernatural plain where alien - looking creatures roam freely - to collect the «fragments» spawned
by the woes of the other students.
Together they discover their Persona powers, form a group
known as the «Phantom Thieves of Hearts», and explore a
supernatural realm called «Palace», which
is a world created
by the corrupt minds of adults.
We can thus see that scientists, once again,
are forced to admit the possibility, even the necessity, of the
supernatural, «some unknown agent» that caused what
is impossible
by the natural laws we
know to happen anyway.
Thus, we have a time outside of the natural laws we
know of, this time
is by definition
supernatural.