Sentences with phrase «in supernatural powers»

They'd been asking for an upgrade in supernatural powers, at one point suggesting it sure would be nice to be able to call down fire from heaven every time someone turned them away from their home.

Instead of making use of reason, they accepted the four schools of law as complete and unchanging and turned to mysticism and belief in the supernatural powers of saints, dead and alive.

The common thread of «religion» is belief in some supernatural power / being.

Nevertheless it does not seem to be the belief in a supernatural power or the experience of miracles that most helps an individual to gain a feeling of control over his own life.

In the life histories of Pentecostals, as well as of other religions, we can note that as much as they believe in supernatural power or magic, they confront miracles which do not happen in everyday life.

Historically, the Tsuut» ina believed in supernatural power that could be obtained through a vision or dream and was enshrined in a tipi painting or medicine object, such as a beaver bundle or pipe bundle (see Medicine Bundle).

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Not exact matches

a. Belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creator and governor of the universe.

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.

So, the «magic people» are out in force, claiming dead people are actually still alive in «heaven» and using their supernatural powers to kill «bad» people on Earth.

There are a lot of interesting comments here and it is definitely true that the more you seem out the devil in terms of knowledge of in this type of situation, the more power he gets and this is a topic that interests me as a topic of the supernatural especially vsm mental illness.

The tribesman's idea of mana or of inherent «wonderful power» in things and the various taboos which apply to their use are an expression of such a belief in the supernatural.

i'm an avid believer in the power of the human mind to over come most problems whether they are man vs. nature, man vs. man or man vs. the supernatural... we can conquer most obsticules placed in our path.

The development in our souls of supernatural life (based on the natural spiritualization of the world through the efforts of mankind): this in the last resort is the field where the operative power of faith is positively and without any known limits exercized.

In starting with the evolving world, I do not presuppose like the naturalists or Marxists that the world is self - sufficient, i.e., that it has all the powers needed to evolve itself, for this presupposition which is really nothing else but the notion of an Aristotelian nature has not really transcended the dualism of a natural and a supernatural order.

If a mother can be arrested for leaving her child in a car, never out of her sight, for three minutes on a freezing day while her other children put money in a Salvation Army bucket — well, if someone were to write a story, now, about children allowed to sail and camp alone for an entire summer, and stay out all night on the water, those children would have to possess supernatural powers or inhabit another planet, and the story would be labeled «fantasy.»

It wasn't that I thought he possessed supernatural powers or anything; I just imagined that he and God had a lot of things in common, that they subscribed to the same magazines and wore similar shoes.

You laugh at the Supernatural, even though scientists have calculated the odds of life forming by natural processes to be estimated less than 1 chance in 10 to the 40, ooo power — But you find nothing wrong with believing that billions of years full of random mutations would result in the impossible.

To believe that those who are weak should attain power, while still weak, is to believe in miracles without believing in the supernatural.

He noted particularly «those superb chapters in the second part of the Summa Theologiae on paternal or domestic government, the lawful power of the State or the nation, natural and international law, peace and war, justice and property, laws and the obedience they command, the duty of helping individual citizens in their need and cooperating with all to secure the prosperity of the State, both in the natural and the supernatural order.»

From Adam and eve in the garden, to jacob and the angels ladder to moses and the burning bush, to daniel and visions to elijah and power over elements to Jesus where it is written that he performed so many more miracles than were written down, to the experience pf the apostles time and time again supporting their message through supernatural events.......

He is merely engaged in a shell game of his own, giving his non-existant supernatural being extraordinary powers so that it can maintain its centuries old disappearing act.

I lived Jesus, i have seen the change in my life, I have come face to face with the supernatural, I have experienced the Power of God so I know I am correct, but this is me, I share my faith, never force it.

Once all the disclaimers have been made — that many religious beliefs are supremely difficult to test for truth because they refer to the supernatural or to that which it is beyond our mental powers to discern, or because (in the case of faith) they are values and not truth - claims — once all this has been said, we still have to admit that yes, of course the question of truth enters in here.

lol this is hillarious and if I grew up in the middle east I would still be a Christian, the gospel message is preached there as well and it makes the most sense, especially when I have experienced God's supernatural power for myself!

In his chapters we find no reference to angels or any other supernatural power.

At the same time, the film harks back to Disney's first - ever fairy - tale feature, 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, with its story of a princess in disguise living hidden in a forest; a villainess with access to supernatural powers; a supporting cast of lovable eccentrics; frolicking animal friends; and a handsome prince who awakens the heroine from a deathlike sleep with love's first kiss.

It does not credit natural or physical law with enough causal power to enact evolution on its own and educes supernatural causes to do most of the heavy lifting in worldly events.

We can not share in this mythological picture, continues Bultmann, because we live and think within «the world - picture formed by modern natural science» and within «the understanding man has of himself in accordance with which he understands himself to be a closed inner unity that does not stand open to the incursion of supernatural powers.

It is «the report of an occurrence or an event,» says Bultmann, «in which supernatural or superhuman powers or persons are at work....

The sociologist Rodney Stark makes some headway in answering the first part of this question: traditional religion, by invoking supernatural power, can promise eternal life, reunion with the departed, a perfected soul, and unending bliss, all of which have obvious appeal and none of which can be offered by merely secular competitors (Stark 169).

Neither does it refer to any supernatural power or transcendent being allegedly directing the course of history in some mysterious way.

In other words, if we are the products of a supernatural creation source, then that power is clearly beyond our ability to contact or understand.

Its principal features are: a three - storied universe consisting of heaven, earth, and underworld; the intervention of natural and supernatural powers in human life; the dominion of evil spirits and Satan over that life and also over the external realm of nature; the imminent end in time of this present world - æon.

After all, it is not to be doubted that the Old Testament, as also the popular view in the New Testament, regards the Spirit as a supernatural power, a kind of mysterious fluid, a «mana», to which it attributes all abnormal phenomena, including those of art and warfare.

History does not follow a smooth unbroken course; it is set in motion and controlled by these supernatural powers.

Einstein's use of the word doesn't mean that he bought into any supernatural power behind nature any more than the ti.tle of Dawkins» latest book, The Magic of Reality, means that he now believes in magic.

If at this point in the central tragedy in our history there had occurred the demonstration of the power and glory of the God in whom he trusted; if Elijah had come; if he who saved others had been saved; if we know not what natural or supernatural event had taken place to deliver this soul of faith from death and further shame; then might not faith as universal loyalty and universal trust have been reconstructed among men?

Family Radio: You are NO prophets, you have NO supernatural «magic» powers from God, and you have NO ability to predict anything in the future no matter how much you study the Bible and you are NOT God's chosen... sorry, it's just plain old life and you're going to have to suck it up and live it like the rest of us.

At the one side he was the ordinary carpenter Jesus, Joseph's son, from Nazareth living in Capernaum at Lake Tiberias, on the other side supernatural power came from him, he was sacral.

Religion: «Belief in, worship of, or obedience to a supernatural power or powers considered to be divine or to have control of human destiny».

Obviously you feel the need to believe in a supernatural higher power, a need so great that you have constructed an elaborate fantasy what happens when people die, but in all honesty, there is no reason to believe that death results in anything but the cessation of life.

As Bousset comments on 5:17: «The will of man is impotent in the grim conflict with these supernatural powers.»

Newton himself saw gravity, a key element of his own study in physics, as implying, perhaps, a supernatural mediating power.

In other words, running side by side we have the sea as something evil and something good, and the monster as a supernatural evil being, a symbol of anti-God forces, and a magnificent testimony to God's wisdom and power.

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.»

For all that, the strength of evangelical Christianity lies in its confident vision of the supernatural, its emphasis on revealed truths and divine commandments, its evangelistic energy and life - transforming power.

In fact, he wrote, the Virgin «had acted as the greatest force the western world ever felt, and had drawn man's activities to herself more strongly than any other power, natural or supernatural, had ever done.»

Why does there have to be some supernatural «power» in the picture?

If you study enough religions you'll quickly figure out the only thing they all have in common is the believe in at least supernatural power without evidence.