Sentences with phrase «make him supernatural»

The existence of Jesus of Nazareth does not make him supernatural or divine any more than a historical Paul Bunyan would force the conclusion he was 100 ft. tall with a giant pet blue ox.

John's gospel makes the supernatural facts about who God is very clear.

Needless to say, if one chooses to make the supernatural element a central aspect of one's religion, the Bible will certainly support such a set of beliefs.

Also, people have often taken natural phenomena and made it a supernatural occurrence (in their minds anyway), and others have stretched or simply made up stories to make a point, try to be more impressive to others, and for a host of other reasons.

Yet, we can make supernatural experiences here which could confirm the existence of an invisible world.

It is a great pity that today very many people having received sacramental baptism, don't make supernatural experiences.

Rainer Helmut Braendlein «Yet, we can make supernatural experiences here which could confirm the existence of an invisible world.»

When the Reason takes pity on the Paradox, and wishes to help it to an explanation, the Paradox does not indeed acquiesce, but nevertheless finds it quite natural that the Reason should do this; for why do we have our philosophers, if not to make supernatural things trivial and commonplace?

But just because intuitive communication takes place outside the mainstream doesn't make it supernatural.

But this latest trailer makes the supernatural thriller look kind of cute, mostly thanks to Being Human's Sam Huntington.

Guillermo del Toro, who allegedly makes horror movies but who mostly makes supernatural fairy tales, tells a story about a mute cleaning woman, played beautifully by Sally Hawkins, who forms a romantic connection between, essentially, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, played equally beautifully by Doug Jones.

For example, if an individual makes supernatural claims that Leprechauns were responsible for breaking a vase, the simpler explanation would be that he is mistaken, but ongoing ad hoc justifications (e.g. «and that's not me on the film; they tampered with that, too») successfully prevent outright falsification.

Not exact matches

In other words, we have no way of determining it scientifically, so we'll make it up (supernatural).

But when people go around making statements and claims that their particular supernatural explaination is just as real as the car in the street, don't be surprised that people will call them on their claim.

The man made the Statue of Liberty disappear, so he must be supernatural.

There are many biblical predictions («prophecies» in bible terms) that have been fulfilled, predictions that were made hundreds of years before the event, like the fall of some empires / nations (ancient and current), a natural and supernatural sign at a particular place, a catastrophe, etc..

It's made me more comfortable that I don't need a supernatural explanation for the way things are.»

That doesn't make awareness supernatural and that doesn't mean God is behind it.

Christianity is what has made the assertion, Chad — about supernatural experiences.

What you have done in logic and scientific terms is, we do not know, science does not know, so let's make something up (the supernatural) and we'll use that since a made up reason is better than no answer.

I don't have the urge to concoct a supernatural being in order to make me feel smart enough (that I have the answer to everything, i.e. god) or feel whole enough (that I will live on forever).

That is because the argument I'm making at his point in time is not for Christianity, but rather for the existence of the supernatural and the existence of God.

do not understand how the universe (or life, or...) came to exist, it does not mean you get to make the unimaginable leap of «faith» to suggest there is a supernatural being or a God or a designer, or whatever you want to call it.

How is that atheists can claim there is no supernatural causation without any evidence whatsoever then accuse believers of making claims without evidence?

Do you really think that that huge amount of people (which I don't doubt is a big number, despite not believing your made - up figure) believe in the same supernatural being as you do?

It is the divinity of jesus and all the supernatural mumbo jumbo that goes into the stories, that have never been replicated, that make his myth as believable as Dionysus or any other man inspired god.

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.

Just becuase someone rejects the supernatural, that doesn't automatically make them an immoral sociopath.

When the supernatural is made «safe,» the stakes vanish.

If you claim the methodology of neutralizing potentially confounding variables limits possibilities to that of the natural then you also make an argument for the supernatural never to be observed by science due to it's methodology.

Becky «@bob: i have a hard time with no «should» and no «right»... maybe that's my evangelical up - bringing coming out, but it seems to me that there is a reality that exists, and i would really like to know what that reality is, and whether supernatural / spiritual / whatever is there or not, because it seems that it makes a whole lot of difference»

I agree that human beings are predisposed to spiritual or supernatural beliefs, probably as an evolutionary bi-product, fearing the unknown made for greater survival odds.

Many people believe in things that can be defined supernatural... what makes them wrong and you right?

Thomas Jefferson took the time to write his own version of the bible, without the supernatural BS, making him an expert in my opinion.

The supernatural mystery of resurrection grows in a place where there is already a rather difficult philosophical puzzle, namely: What makes a thing the «same thing» through time?

The passage of a person from death to life is up to HIm, and until He does a supernatural work we should keep our pearls for those who God has already raised and bring the Gospel to those who have yet to make that passage.

@bob: i have a hard time with no «should» and no «right»... maybe that's my evangelical up - bringing coming out, but it seems to me that there is a reality that exists, and i would really like to know what that reality is, and whether supernatural / spiritual / whatever is there or not, because it seems that it makes a whole lot of difference

Some parts have been proven to be fiction, other parts, mainly the supernatural claims, can not be verified, and do not make any sense, so referring to it as fiction would be accurate, though there are some historically accurate things in it.

If it makes any claim that involves spirits, demons, or other supernatural forces it's an example of someone who believes in supernatural forces wrongly claiming with no evidence that they are responsible for something they aren't.

Even if Jesus existed it doesn't prove any of the supernatural claims made about him.

Atheists have made up their mind regarding supernatural, ultimate «Truth», but the search for proximate truth is ceaseless.

History shows us that people often make up explanations involving God or other supernatural forces to explain things when they have no other explanation.

colin: «One DOES NOT have to believe in the supernatural in order to be moral and a belief in one or more of the many gods in vogue today DOES NOT make one moral.»

Yeah, that sort of makes the whole thing supernatural, and yes that requires evangelicals to see the fruit of the Spirit and the «mere Christianity» in believers in other denominations (and none), but I'm just naive and stupid enough to think God can do stuff like that.

The concept of the supernatural is culturally derived from an innate cognitive schema...» The scientific evidence for his position comes from an analysis of studies done on children that show that their innate way of viewing the world is in terms of «design, function and purpose» - making them, in effect, «intuitive theists.»

RD: You could say that, it doesn't in any case, nothing about it makes it more probable that there is anything supernatural.

A somewhat better case can be made for the supernatural as the realm of ideal possibilities as opposed to the realm of the actual.

If this is so, it does not make sense to suddenly postulate supernatural causes or metaphysical purposes when these events happen to have a strong impact on our lives.

The strident rhetoric of scientism has made belief in the supernatural look ridiculous.

Atheism is simply non-belief in the supernatural, but so many have hijacked it to make it seem to be so much more.