Sentences with phrase «in mystical beings»

Not deluded into believing in mystical beings.

No one has more «pure bias» than one who believes in mystical beings (gods) without evidence (christians, muslims, hindus, etc).

you can believe in a mystical being who created all the matter and life in the universe, yet refuses to display definitive proof of its existence to us, or you can believe that the proper amount of protein, electrolytes, sugars, and RNA came together in a lipid layer (or some other semi permeable membrane) at just the right time to create a cell that could reproduce itself and begin life.

Not exact matches

So, if you've been wondering how to get your website to rank well in the search engines and have been wondering what the secret sauce is, you can forget about some mystical equation that perfectly balances links, keyword density, and unicorn dust.

BIODYNAMICS in the vineyard is a system of farming reliant on the cycles of the moon and mystical preparations buried in a cow's horn in the vineyard according to celestial indicators.

On a mystical level, certain sources maintain that the flatness and lack of air in matzah is a metaphor for keeping your ego in check and not getting too «puffed up» and arrogant.

Actually, scouting is half - business, half - mystical art to the players whose lives hang in the balance.

My favorite is: And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter.

I don't think «intuition» is some kind of mystical flow of spiritual cognition that lays dormant, then when you most need it, it arises like a vapor in your «heart».

You can't accept that atoms, molecules, chemical reactions in our bodies, and the rest of the universe just work somehow, but you can accept that a mystical all - knowing being simply created it all?

Steve, the Bible was written in a mystical eastern culture over 2000 years ago.

VERY OFTEN TRUE STATEMENTS ARE POSTED HERE, BUT THEY ARE CATEGORICALLY DENIED BY THOSE WHO HAVE AN AGENDA TO PROMOTE ONLY BELIEF IN THINGS THAT ARE NOT MYSTICAL, NOT SUPERNATURAL, AND ARE MEASURABLE ONLY SCIENTIFICALLY AND INTERPRETED ONLY THROUGH 21TH CENTURY WESTERN CULTURAL FILTERS.

Catholics hold that the Church is the body of Christ, a sacramental and mystical communion in which Christ is truly and effectually present and through which his justifying and sanctifying grace is mediated.

Morals aren't decided by the members of the church, which is the mystical body of Christ that you are correct in stating but wrong in stating «too bad you never learned about.».

Please do not try to tell me that there was mystical meaning in those words.

All this comes in the paragraph that begins, «To present myself at last as an heir to mystical lodges...» He is confessing much, disclosing much, at these points in his testament.

The problem for the Catholic believer in particular is precisely the claim of the Catholic Church to be a catholic church — not a culture or a heritage, but the mystical bride of Christ — a universal and eternal possibility for conversion.

His mystical theology of uncreated grace, the purifying encounter with God in His very Godhead, is henceforth anchored to the preaching and ritual of the Church as the concrete locus of God's certain, undialectical presence.

Scholasticism Theology moved from the monastery to the university Western theology is an intellectual discipline rather than a mystical pursuit Western theology is over-systematized Western Theology is systematized, based on a legal model rather than a philosophical model Western theologians debate like lawyers, not like rabbis Reformation Catholic reformers were excommunicated and formed Protestant churches Western churches become guarantors of theological schools of thought Western church membership is often contingent on fine points of doctrine Some western Christians believe that definite beliefs are incompatible with tolerance The atmosphere arose in which anyone could start a church The legal model for western theology intensifies despite the rediscovery of the East

Perhaps the latter is true in some mystical sense but as a history scholar I can tell you that I can't think of a worse position that being an early Christian in the Roman Empire.

As with the mystical tradition in general, the danger is that the Pentecostal mystical experience becomes a mere escape from the world rather than a preparation for a purposeful reinsertion into the world.

Let's face it, any of you people who believe in ANY mystical deity - like figure are smoking something.

He does not discuss a single major Protestant or Catholic theologian who has systematically discussed this issue of faith and history — not Karl Barth, Emil Brunner, Hans Conzelmann, Gerhard Ebeling, Hans Frei, Friedrich Gogarten, Hans Küng, Schubert Ogden, Karl Rahner, James M. Robinson or Paul Tillich (who, incidentally, is dismissed in a footnote as «too mystical for most Christians, including most Christian intellectuals»).

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus... will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

I don't need an «eternal purpose», whatever that is, especially because «eternal purpose» in reality means consuming and pondering mystical writings and sermons which are solely based in the imaginations of the authors.

As he declared in an interview with John Hersey, the sun's radiance is the emblem of an ineluctable mystical allurement that draws us either upward or downward:

I don't know what the author of the story had in mind... it could have been any number of emotionalistic, mystical - drama connotations.

So let me get this straight, it's far fetched for us to NOT have been created by a God and that's illogical but you believe there's a heaven and hell, a mystical deity who watches over us yet fails to intervene in bloodshed that occurs daily in his name, this deity is all powerful but for some reason can't do anything more than a coin toss could and for some reason everything he can do is limited to exactly the same domain as nature (EX: God can never regenerate a missing limb)?

My friend wasn't there, and I shared my testimony (which includes the dream the Lord gave me) with another man, who unknown to me, whispered in the ear of the new pastor that I was talking about a «mystical experience.»

The distinction is further blurred by the mystical tradition in every major world religion, including Christianity and Judaism.

By contrast to Europe's denial of its religious and moral foundations, Asia's great religious traditions, especially the mystical component expressed in Buddhism, have been elevated as spiritual powers.

I'm sorry but to take a literal translation of the Bible that a mystical being created an entire planet and everything on it in 6 days is ridiculous.

1823 letter to John Adams — «And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

The second is more along the lines of author Frank Herbert, who explored in his Byzantine * Dune * saga just about every major system of power dynamics from religious / mystical to technological to political to tribal to financial to ecological to physical.

It's a magical little city nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas that's holy to Hindus and a mystical playground for Westerners.

«And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

This time, the cycle was broken by an event that Johnson describes as a mystical experience in which God broke through and asked, «Why are you fighting me?»

«Therefore that joining together of head and members, that indwelling of Christ in our hearts — in short that mystical union — are accorded by us the highest degree of importance.»

In spite of the vicissitudes of human history the developing sequence of events that constitute the history of the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ is simply non-negotiable.

Of their very nature those blessed passivities which are my will to be, my inclination to be thus or thus, and the chances given me to attain to my own completion in the way I desire, all are charged with your influence — an influence which I shall come before long to see more clearly as the organizing force of your mystical Body.

At about the time that he was seeing The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse through the press, Williams was also entering the Imperial Hotel in Russell Square, where an upstairs room had been booked as a makeshift «Temple» of the Order of the Rosy Cross.

The Sufi orders are declining in influence at the same time that the devotional and mystical teachings of the Sufi masters are being studied more sympathetically by intellectuals.

Such texts imply that the invisible God is made visible through the incarnation in a concrete and not simply mystical or anagogical way — that those who saw Jesus in his earthly life also «saw» the first person of the Trinity.

On the other hand, there may be those who can come to contemplate what the mystical writers have styled «the stark vision of God in himself.»

Such names as these bring us to the mystical «union of the soul with God,» as this supreme experience in prayer has been described.

On the face of it the passage is a mystical experience; but the way Alyosha got to it was by way of Father Zossima's putrefying body: he had to go through that experience of radical dissociation, accept it and take it with him, an experience fully described in the earlier part of Book VII, in order to come to the insight that «the silence of earth seemed to melt into the silence of the heavens.»

If the term «ecstasy» is applied at all to the giant figures in the succession from Amos to Second Isaiah, I would want to insist on Lindblom's distinction between ecstasy of the absorption type (involving loss of rational control) and that of the concentration type, and a very clear further distinction between the circumspective religion of the prophets and the more common ancient Eastern type of introspective, mystical piety.

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It contains evidence of both his mythico - mystical orientation and the existentialist posture that is fully rehearsed in Mircea Eliade and the Dialectic of the Sacred.

What I experience as I stand in face of — and in the very depths of — this world which your flesh has assimilated, this world which has become your flesh, my God, is not the absorption of the monist who yearns to be dissolved into the unity of things, nor the emotion felt by the pagan as he lies prostrate before a tangible divinity, nor yet the passive self - abandonment of the quietist tossed hither and thither at the mercy of mystical impulsions.