Sentences with phrase «mythical beings who»

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«Fishermen joke that you always think the lure you don't have is the one that's going to catch the fish,» says Ross Gordon, who started Mystery Tackle Box to solve the mythical science of finding the lure that will seduce a particular fish.

Jesus was an illiterate Jewish peasant / carpenter / simple, dirty (a new book), sometimes sick (the same book) preacher man who suffered from hallucinations (or «mythicizing» from P, M, M, L and J) and who has been characterized anywhere from the Messiah from Nazareth to a mythical character from mythical Nazareth to a ma - mzer from Nazareth (Professor Bruce Chilton, in his book Rabbi Jesus).

After reading several of the posts on the «interpretation of mythical texts into a book called the bible» one is left to wonder how a being who is supposed to have created the universe would permit what is often referred to as «his inerrant words»... to get so screwed up... you would think he / she / it would have been keeping a close eye on a book that he / she / it wanted to have in print for... mass distribution... it is not not a womder the bible is messed up the way it is... it is a «human» construct... only humans could mess a book up that badly... gods do nor make mistakes... except for Rick Santorum

In reference to non-historical figures, Gary Habermas states «In each of these cases we find numerous problems such as a decided lack of historical data, reports that are far too late or stories about mythical personages who never lived.»

He is considered, by many Christians, a liberal, who can be said «argued that biblical stories were mythical rather than historical, and taught that Jesus had a sinful nature.»

As to your veiled threats, I could give a good god damn about them and who the hell are you to judge me, is that not up to your mythical god?

f The more original Biblical reference to retaliation was from the mythical character Jesus (invented by Constantine at the first council at Nicaea in 325, and modeled after his own «prophet» the Sun God, Mithra, and named Jesus Christos to combine the Celtic God Hesus and the Indian God Krishna, whose Latin name was Christos, into one God) who said «turn your other cheek» (when struck in the face).

Talking to people who believe in mythical and magic things is like trying to talk to a child.

It is often said that those who are concerned about the social and personal effects of divorce are nostalgic for the 1950s, yearning for a mythical time when....

Jesus was an illiterate Jewish peasant / carpenter / simple preacher man who suffered from hallucinations (or «mythicizing» from P, M, M, L and J) and who has been characterized anywhere from the Messiah from Nazareth to a mythical character from mythical Nazareth to a mamzer from Nazareth (Professor Bruce Chilton, in his book Rabbi Jesus).

If you add in any other mythical character you wish, it's easy to see how absurd this sounds to the ears of someone who does not believe.

If anyone deserves to rot in his mythical hell it is Topher who has admitted to breaking all of the ten commandments.

Jesus Christ was a mythical figure who did not rise from the dead.

How strange that in the space of just one week a book reviewer in the New York Times mentions the «frisson - inducing» discovery only nine years ago of a ninth century B.C. stele referring to the «House of David,» thus issuing «a stony rebuff to those who think that David is a mythical figure,» while another...

However, Whitehead rejects the mythical sense of creation in which God is an eternal Being who suddenly starts the time - clocks by an act of creating the material universe, including man.

And real people pay no attention to fools like yourself who believe in mythical supernatural beings that can raise the dead and read our thoughts.

But again, you who believe in the daddy - o of jesus as the only god call this belief pagan and mythical... aka not real... here is a quote i'm sure has been on these blogs many times and will be again...

As one who accepted the strange vocation of being an apocalyptic seer, Blake was not in quest of a hidden but ancient mythical form; instead, he was engaged in a desperate search for a new mythical «system» by which he might record the dawning of a final movement of redemption in the arena of our totally fallen history.

Also, how can Jesus, who u think is god, not know that he came down to earth to die for original sin in a mythical tale?

There were many individuals who came to be increasingly at home in this world of rational consciousness and increasingly estranged from the mythical world that still controlled their situation.

is god that stupid then to get nailed twice... the master of the universe, the head cheese, the mythical leader of billions of folks who have only read something about him.her / it and he can not make himself known.

Jesus was an illiterate Jewish peasant / carpenter / simple preacher man who suffered from hallucinations (or «mythicizing» from P, M, M, L and J) and who has been characterized anywhere from the Messiah from Nazareth to a mythical character from mythical Nazareth to a ma - mzer from Nazareth (Professor Bruce Chilton, in his book Rabbi Jesus).

Not someone who is living for some mythical afterlife or to please some mythical sky fairy.

I think this has real possibilities: though the danger here, as I see it, is precisely the one that befell Hegel, who assumed that metaphysical thinking was simply mythical thinking grown mature and sure of itself.

This is why I understood the longing, inarticulate but powerful, of those rootless, churchless urban Americans who shed tears over a mythical little church in the vale.

Perhaps, though, the biblical character of Jesus, rather than being entirely mythical, was based on one of many Jewish messiah claimants who had followers who euhemerized his life to a greater extent than those of other such claimants, so that in time the stories were so embellished that he became a god in them, but the Tesimonium Flavianum is hardly proof of his existence.

The true Resurrection is based not on the mythical lie of the guilty victim who deserves to die but on the rectification of that lie, which comes from the true God and which reopens channels of communication mankind itself had closed through self - imprisonment in its own violent cultures.

It's kind of like that story I started out with — the man on the shore who invites you to go fishing for the mythical Lake monster.

I mean, think of the fame you would get for being the person who caught the mythical Lake Monster?

This is so much more real — it brings the Father from a distant, almost mythical / magical being out there to an ever - present Papa who is as close as the next breath we take....

(It may of course be argued that there are people alive to - day whose confidence in the traditional scientific view of the world has been shaken, and others who are primitive enough to qualify for an age of mythical thought.

And Paul's view of man's condition (and in its essentials his is the central biblical view) can not be declared false, for all its mythical character, so long as it is the only view of man which takes adequate account of this inescapable reality of human experience: On the one hand, I know that «it is not I who do these things but sin which has possession of me»; but, on the other hand, I know that I am responsible for these acts of sin and that I deserve to die because of them.

Not familiar with those specific names, but the only form of grace I've ever heard of that made any sense was that which a former kibbutznik related to me, one in which those who worked to produce the food were thanked, not some mythical bring.

Santa Claus is clearly a mythical figure, but he is based a real person who lived in Europe.

Jesus was actually only an illiterate Jewish peasant / carpenter / simple preacher man who suffered from hal - lucinations and who has been characterized anywhere from the Messiah from Nazareth to a mythical character from mythical Nazareth to a mam - zer from Nazareth (Professor Bruce Chilton, in his book Rabbi Jesus).

«Mythical believers are people who havent grown up yet... they do nt beliee in santa but still believe in a magical god.

Your god is purely mythical, and merely the superst - ition of ancient peoples who didn't know better.

Devotees to a mythical figure who is reported to have ordered his «chosen» people to slaughter every living thing in their march to conquest.

Do I need to laugh and hold in contempt those who worship a mythical being because I know the truth of the natural world?

And I called it a snuff movie, but it is a re-enactment of a mythical torture and execution of some guy who probably didn't even exist, so perhaps I should have just used a different word, but the trauma for viewers is just like that of a snuff film, so I used «snuff».

Not that everyone who is religious is stupid, but the idea of believing in some mythical creature being able to sap * zap * and create something is hard to believe.

He is a strange, mythical creature who eschews home - baked bread in lieu of the store - bought ones... Apparently, this is also NOT his favourite black bread, since he doesn't like the seeds (thank goodness I ground them as much as I could in my magic bullet) and whatever other reasons... Just when I was ready to chuck the freshly - baked round at his head, or eat my way through the sorrow, he finally ate it (with some smoked ham) and thought it was terrific!

This mythical creature sounds terrifying, especially if he is roaming the offensive zone and firing lasers at any of his foes who dare to try and stop him.

The boatman is Charon, the mythical ferryman who carries souls across the river Styx and into the underworld.

He was caught there, of course, in the presence of a fighter who held the world lightweight championship for seven years (1972 - 78) and whose record (71 - 1, with 56 knockouts) and reputation for ring savvy and savagery had given him an almost mythical aura.

They'll also have to face the mythical beast known as Masked Kyrie (artist rendition pictured above,) who is expected to make his return after missing Sunday's game against the Raptors.

Believe that you are a mythical creature from a video game who was unfortunately born into a human body?

Someone, probably, will say seriously, that it's ONLY the homebirth midwives who are respecting a woman's right to a vaginal breech, twin, or post dates birth at home, and HER right to the lower rate of intervention at home trumps the mythical rights of the baby, and that since it's the sisters in chains that are taking back a woman's right to physiologic birth where SHE wants it that IF there is an increased risk to the baby it's the mother's right to take that risk.

Colostrum: There are those who argue that the mythical and elusive fountain of youth may actually exist, and that it can be found in something produced by every nursing mammal: colostrum.

He's that mythical baby who just goes to sleep when you put him down in the crib.