Sentences with phrase «of mythological being»

Filmmakers Alex and Andrew Smith made their feature debut more than a decade ago with «The Slaughter Rule,» the cast of which included a then - unknown Amy Adams and Ryan Gosling before he had become some sort of mythological being.

Wow... I can't believe just how completely messed up it is that someone not only believes they hear the voice of a mythological being but are also so willing to tell everybody else and wear it like a badge of pride....

I can only hope to face the end with similar dignity and not invoke the help of a mythological being

(Note: The Right Interpretation of the Mythological is based upon a lecture delivered at Breslau on 9th January, 1944 by Ernst Lohmeyer.)

«If your knowledge of mythological beings seems to have failed you, do not fret.

Ms. Woolfalk has created her own society of mythological beings called the Empathics, who not only blend racial and ethnic differences, but also dissolve the line between humans and plants.

Not exact matches

Instead of pursuing our dreams as young people, we're often just trying to avoid imaginary pitfalls or conform to a predictable, mythological career path.

Most of the paintings were narratives with mythological themes, illustrating stories from hindu epics and literature.

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.

I'm quite certain that 99.99 percent of the human population over the age of 10 recognizes the fact that the previous mentioned characters are simply mythological creatures.

Of course, one might reject this teaching as mythological nonsense — but then one needs to ask what on earth is the difference between being a Lutheran and being just another secular radical.

How far away from religious agendaships will the leveraging hierarchies be twained and marked in being and becoming mere factors of the mythological?

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.

«He» is a construct based on may previous mythological figures who were «born of a virgin», «was resurrected», etc...

IF this mythological heaven DID exist and by some cruel joke, it's full of people like you, I want no part of it.

Religion — Debating the details of nonexistent beings, and how they affect mostly mythological characters.

There is nothing anywhere within the construct of a religious belief system that limits ones faith to a mythological story.

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.»

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.

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.

When you are drowning, pray to god to save you and see what happens, while the other guy rescues himself instead of asking some mythical mythological being to do it for him.

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.

His observation is even more valid for theology, given the theologian's self - conscious use of mythological and narrative materials.

«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.)

He moved beyond a recognition of the validity of much of Bultmann's position, to argue that since something can be known about the historical Jesus, we must concern ourselves with working it Out, if we do not wish ultimately to find ourselves committed to a mythological Lord.

@Chad «no serious scholar buys into that nonsense: The Christ myth theory (also known as Jesus mythicism, the Jesus myth theory and the nonexistence hypothesis) is the idea that Jesus of Nazareth was not a historical person, but is a fictional or mythological character created by the early Christian community.

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.

Amazingly enough, fred, I have no respect for someone who is so afraid of life and death that he spends his entire existence kowtowing to a mythological god and his mythology - filled handbook.

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.

Furthermore, the gospel inevitably has been associated with mythological ways of stating it which, while entirely appropriate to the times when the association was made, are no longer appropriate today.

There certainly are for those who regard all language about an act of God or of a decisive, eschatological event as mythological.

It is precisely its immunity from proof which secures the Christian proclamation against the charge of being mythological.

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 itself.

Here the whole set of images is of a highly mythological sort, doubtless related to «redeemer myths» and other primitive, or sometimes more sophisticated, schemes of thought.

There is here a summary of Bultmann's controversial method of Biblical interpretation, which tries to recover the deeper meaning behind the mythological concepts of the New Testament.

Hans Kng would add that Genesis was «problematic» and that we are talking of a «mythological idea».

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.

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.»

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.

This mythological interpretation is a hotch - potch of sacrificial and juridical analogies, which have ceased to be tenable for us today.

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.

He thought that it was possible to strip away the metaphysical doctrines of the church fathers and the mythological stories of the first Christians to reach a Lord whose impact would transform modern lives.