Sentences with phrase «in mythological beings»
Concur... but any scientist that believes in mythological beings... would not be considered «elite» by today's actual elite scientists
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
My point is that those opposed to terminating a small group of cells, or even a larger fetus that is not even yet self - aware will base their opposition on the supposed views of some mythological creature that, according to their Iron Age Palestinian mythology, caused a grown adult to be tortured and killed in a grotesque, barbaric fashion.
Finally, you aren't even discussing your particular God character per se, you use a far more sweeping term, «Supernatural being», which would sweep in the very creatures and beings which you claim are as mythological — therefore, ironically, you confirm the analogy in the very same paragraph where you attempt to discredit it.
How far away from religious agendaships will the leveraging hierarchies be twained and marked in being and becoming mere factors of the mythological?
In my opinion, believers are fools for believing in superst - itious mythological tribal stories, and will be doubly foolish to think that what happened to the UK and the USSR can't happen to the US because «god (pick one or more) is on our side.&raquIn my opinion, believers are fools for believing in superst - itious mythological tribal stories, and will be doubly foolish to think that what happened to the UK and the USSR can't happen to the US because «god (pick one or more) is on our side.&raquin superst - itious mythological tribal stories, and will be doubly foolish to think that what happened to the UK and the USSR can't happen to the US because «god (pick one or more) is on our side.»
Realistically, this has no bearing whatsoever in reality, as the bible has been proven to by nothing but mythological fables in the guise of a life instruction manual.
It doesn't matter if he believes in a mythological spirit (or what our personal beliefs are in science or religion), he is happy.
Tryggve N. D. Mettinger in The Riddle of the Resurrection: «Dying and Rising Gods» in the Ancient Near East wrote: «There is, as far as I am aware, no prima facie evidence that the death and resurrection of Jesus is a mythological construct, drawing on the myths and rites of the dying and rising gods of the surrounding world.»
And mythological stories may be based on actual individuals whose life stories are greatly embellished over time so that they gain miraculous powers and even may become deities in time through apotheosis.
If people find comfort in looking at a mock execution device, believed to represent the torture and death of their mythological savior, that's fine with me.
Ya, that's why we need to start running candidates who do not believe in the Christian deity or any other mythological deity.
So judgment by this purported God is not relevant as it is in the same basket as Zeus, Odin, etc., mythological judgment.
But especially because you obviously have no concept of what «blasphemy» is... The fellow you judged didn't take your Jesus» name in vain, he just used the name as part of his conversation while talking about the mythological figure himself...
Being a non-believer black - belt of of the nth degree I see knowledge of mythological trivia as important as believers see the understanding of the intricacies in the definition of the word theory.
There is the simple recognition that Zeus, considered god of the sky and ruler of the Olympian gods in ancient Greece and corresponding to the Roman god Jupiter, is a mythological god, the same as Hermes.
Once we see the mythological imagery of spiritual warfare in the heavens between God and the waters, and we understand from Genesis 1 that from the darkness and chaos of the water, God is seeking to bring beauty and order, we are then in a position to understand Genesis 6 — 8.
I'm sorry, «Jeff», but there has never been another mythological character interpreted in as many contradictory ways as the Christian «God», therefore your assertion is a falsehood.
The issue is dramatized in an ancient psalm which is heavy with mythological imagery:
«Truth Be Known was created in 1995 by independent scholar and author of comparative religion and mythology D.M. Murdock, also known as «Acharya S.» Acharya's work is designed to bring to light fascinating lost, hidden and destroyed religious, mythological and spiritual traditions that reveal an exciting core of knowledge dating back thousands of years.
Is the resurrection, however «mythological» or demythologized our view of it, even remotely an exercise in human heroism?
First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)
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.
Does this mean that what existentialism has done is simply to remove the mythological disguise and to vindicate the Christian understanding of Being as it is found in the New Testament and to carry it to more logical conclusion?
The LAM scale (Liberal, Antiliberal, and Mythological) is demonstrated in Richard A. Hunt, «Mythological - Symbolic Religious Commitment: The LAM Scales, «Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 42 52.
In this way the resurrection is not a mythological event adduced in order to prove the saving efficacy of the cross, but an article of faith just as much as the meaning of the cross itselIn this way the resurrection is not a mythological event adduced in order to prove the saving efficacy of the cross, but an article of faith just as much as the meaning of the cross itselin order to prove the saving efficacy of the cross, but an article of faith just as much as the meaning of the cross itself.
And yet, in the incarnation God has affirmed the world and history in such a way that it is impossible to confine our apprehension of Him to a mythological or metaphysical elaboration of the event of incarnation.
In mythological language, this means that he stems from eternity, his origin is not a human and natural one.
Bonhoeffer believed the «historicity» of the Resurrection was in «the realm of ambiguity,» and that it was one of the «mythological» elements of Christianity that «must be interpreted in such a way as not to make religion a pre-condition of faith.»
I believe the bible story attempts to describe, in its ancient mythological way, how the spiritual is totally enmeshed in the material.
But the biblical witness must be read in its own context, and when this is done, we must look for the direction in which the faith of Israel was moving, not for the mythological remnants still present in its expression.
Because of God's transcendence it would be mythological to refer to God's action in terms appropriate only to objects available, in principle at least, to ordinary sense perception.13 This especially means that one can not speak of God in terms of the categories of time and space; 14 i.e., whatever is predicated of God can not apply only to some particular time and space, but must apply equally to all times and spaces.15 Thus the implication of Ogden's criterion for non-mythological language about God corresponds to his statement of several years ago, that «there is not the slightest evidence that God has acted in Christ in any way different from the way in which he primordially acts in every other event.
If it were implied that God did something different at one point in space and time, one would be involved in mythological talk.
We have seen that when the Bible is read against the background of the ancient mythological cultures, it is found to be pointing in a different direction.
Yet just at the point where we find ourselves assuming full responsibility, free from the restraints of mythological powers, we become slowly aware that it is He, the God of our fathers, who is in fact prompting, guiding and influencing us from within.
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.
Creationism is more or less a set of mental gymnastics, necessitated by a dogged refusal to accept or admit that anything in the Bible might be inaccurate, untrue, or mythological.
thats notproof... you have to look in the text as HISTORIANS look at it... being «mythological» sounding doe snot make it legendary... second..
We do not know whether this experience is as old in human history as that of the mythological cosmos.
To repeat: the mythological matrix is by no means «finished»; it can be regained today, as it was regained many times in the past.
The general position of these writers, whose contributions vary considerably in approach and quality, is that Jesus made no claim of divinity for himself and that the doctrine of the incarnation was developed during the early centuries of the Christian era as an attempt to express the uniqueness of Jesus in the mythological language and thought forms of the Greek culture of the time.While recognizing the validity of the patristic theologians» work, which culminated in the classical christological definitions of Nicea and Chalcedon, the British theologians question whether these definitions are intelligible in the 20th century, and go on to suggest that some concept other than incarnation might better express the divine significance of Jesus today.
Anywhere in the world, if one goes back far enough, one comes upon a worldview that can be described quite adequately as mythological» that is, one comes upon a world that is permeated with sacred, divine forces.
Physics - lite @ CN77 & Andrew Andrew's Quote «It's not all that pointless, see while you would never be convinced that your bronze age mythological beliefs about the creation of the universe are wrong, since I can rebut (with peer reviewed journal articles no less) any claim you make, in rather stunning detail, those who are not so well versed on the subject who read the dialogue could be swayed to the side of science.
Surely we should talk in terms of intensity of divine Activity and fullness of human response, not in terms of «above» and «below,» «in» and «out,» «entrance,» and the like — these are mythological terms, and for our own day they are outworn rather than significantly evocative mythological terms.
In particular I will be reexamining the American civil religion1 and the mythological structure that supports it.
While there is some element of truth in this, it is only so because Israel herself necessarily reflected in her earliest period the traits of the mythological origins from which she emerged.
In such instances it would be wrong to set aside the mythological element because of its supposed incompatibility with modern thought.
That is mythological aetiology, and it may be quite conscious and deliberate or it may be accompanied by belief in the occurrence of the earlier event.
The fact that Christian thought has sometimes been tempted to revert to a doctrine of God more mythological in character than that of Israel, should not hide from us the direction in which the testimony of Israel was heading.
Bultmann himself is alive to this consequence, for he says at one point: «Anyone who asserts that to speak of an act of God at all is to use mythological language is bound to regard the idea of an act of God in Christ as a myth.
Moreover, the faith that YHWH was the Lord of history meant that in contrast with the mythological cultures, where the gods were little interested in human affairs, the spotlight of divine concern was pointed directly to the human scene.