Sentences with phrase «of supernatural stories»

in January — a truly unique collection of supernatural stories that are sometimes gruesome and unsettling, and often hilarious.

The fact that places mentioned in the Bible have been verified archeologically has no bearing on the veracity of the supernatural stories put forth in that book.

The fact that places or people mentioned in the Bible have been verified archeologically has no bearing on the veracity of the supernatural stories put forth in that book.

All very interesting looks into ancient civilizations, with not a whit of verifiable evidence for any of their supernatural stories.

It could easily play as a monster movie or a modern horror movie, with the haunted tension of a supernatural story like The Orphanage mixed with the big, stately action of Pacific Rim.

Completely devoid of supernatural story line (which I realize is not a requirement for a King novel, but it certainly does make it amazing), King's approach to crime fiction is more about a deranged mass murderer than any kind of horror plot.

The final installment of the supernatural story that began with Corpse Party and continued in Corpse Party: Book of Shadows, Corpse Party: Blood Drive ups the ante by allowing players to explore Heavenly Host Elementary in full 3D for the first time, with all of its formerly 2D environments meticulously recreated and greatly expanded.

[Platform: PS Vita; Release: Fall 2015]-- The final installment of the supernatural story that began with Corpse Party and continued in Corpse Party: Book of Shadows, Corpse Party: Blood Drive ups the ante by allowing players to explore Heavenly Host Elementary in full 3D for the first time, and with a dynamic lighting system aided by an in - game flashlight.

Not exact matches

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.

He cut what he considered supernatural events — the virgin birth, miracles and healings — from the story of Jesus» life, and pasted together what remained.

austin Moses is likely myth, and Though Jesus likely existed, he existed as a man... it is the supernatural garbage that is the myth... George Washington existed, but many of the stories surrounding him never happened, they are myth.

• Pu Songling, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: Anyone who loves Chinese ghost stories and tales of Taoist magic and supernatural fables — anyone, that is, with a soul — should know this, the classic collection of a great many of the best of them.

Indeed, in every part of the world, stories of the supernatural are a common part of the spiritual landscape.

That so many of Christ's characteristics were extant in prior mythologies casts doubt as to the veracity of the supernatural aspects of His story.

To put it simply, most of their work is high - level illustration of supernatural truth, not stories of people on the move toward belief.

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.»

We do not mean this in the technical sense of any story referring to the supernatural (see Chapter 4, p. 44).

But anyways, a general rule of thumb for distinguishing fiction from non-fiction: if a story contains supernatural elements like magic, miracles and monsters, it is fiction.

Man - made fictional unverifiable claims of the supernatural baseless nonsense without a single thing to back it up made up stories to scare children.

Believing in a death myth or the supernatural does not make it real... fanciful stories... of the supernatural are not real... Read Caesar's Messiah by Joseph Atwill on how the Christian myth was created from the Jewish one....

Russ — I don't think you'll find people arguing too much about the few character names we have, but more about other pieces of information that should be available to corroborate the supernatural aspects of the stories.

i do nt know if people here still view the bible as literal, but its interesting to me that many who say they trust the bible or sacraments over direct experience of God seems ironic considering the bible details from beginning to end story after story of Gods supernatural intervention time and time again.

This is evidence that the story of a virgin birth was not current at the time, for Mark makes much of the miraculous to attest Jesus» supernatural power, and he would surely have reported a miraculous birth if he had known of it.

How can you be smart enough to get into Harvard and actually believe that some supernatural stories scribbled down by various unknown people between around 60 AD (years after the alleged death of Christ) and 1,000 AD, threatening you with merciless torture if you don't believe the outrageous stories, are true?

There is not a shred of verified evidence that any of the supernatural beings or events in those stories are real.

There is not a shred of verified evidence for the supernatural beings and events in that book (nor for the rest of the Middle Eastern Hebrew stories that were selected to be in the Bible).

the belief on the existence of the devil was concieved by theologians of the past thousands of years, there was no other way of explaining the bad experiences of people in the past because we were not educated yet to the kind of what we have now, Why this happened because that was part of the learning process that God wants us to know, in pathrotheism, we are part of God, and He himself is evolving because He is the universe, We are now the conscious part of Him, our destiny in accordance to his will also be His destiny because it is His will.Although He prepared first all the material reality of the universe ahead of us, The experiences for us humans including the supernatural is just part of nirmal process for learning because its natural process, today we reach a point of not believing the practices of the past, but it does not mean its wrong, Just like a child, adults loved to tell mythical stories to them, because we knew children enjoys it as part of their learning process.

you should have read the paragraph after paragraph that Russ posted in a previous story when confronted with the simple question about providing evidence outside of the bible for the supernatural claims made in the bible......

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.

Hugely successful Christian recording artist Carman would regale listeners with stories of supernatural combat, in which he — a God - fearing Christian — would humiliate Satan.

Personally — I don't belive a word of religion (based on hundreds of conflicting stories, told by word of mouth for hundreds or thousands of years, revised by committees, with supernatural claims, conflicting claims, interpreted differently by every «scholar» — yet every religion claims to be the «truth».

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.

Unless you have really delved deeply into other religions, and I mean as deeply as you claim others must delve into your belief before they can understand, then any and all creation stories must be considered serious contenders in a belief of a supernatural cause for everything.

In Modern Fantasy: Five Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1975), C. N. Manlove has argued that the use of the supernatural — and I would include magic — is not simply a possibility in the fantasy tale; it is a driving force in the story and takes a central role in the development and shaping of characters as well as plot.

Since the gospels tell differing versions of the same story, you pretty much have to pick and choose what version to accept or just say it is not reasonable to believe any of the supernatural mumbo jumbo.

Fred is telling you how some people come to believe, and you are countering with the claim that his explanations need not involve the «mystical» or the «supernatural» and that nothing he has said has proven the existence of God or established the truth of the Christian stories.

Supernatural stories of the religious variety are 100 % the product of human - generated statements.

There is not a whit of verified evidence for the supernatural beings or events in those stories or writings.

We tried to understand the numerous miracle stories of the New Testament without assuming a «supernatural» intervention — which can not be proved — in the laws of nature.

Even many of today's Christians, who in other respects may be regarded as being very liberal in their outlook, have been inclined to rest their faith on the historical reliability of the resurrection narratives, as pointing to at least one incontestable miracle of a supernatural character, and they have been alarmed when the «Empty Tomb» stories came to be regarded as legendary.

yes, there is a bunch of that self - affirming stuff in there... you would actually expect them to be honest and tell you that none of the supernatural claims can be verified and were likely simply over embellished stories, do you

The fact that man has made up thousands of gods... the fact that many of those stories were taken from previous cultures, the fact that 90 % of what Jesus allegedly said was taught by the Buddha 400 years earlier... FAR more evidence of any of the supernatural claims, which is absolutely zero, nothing, not one shred of evidence ever.

Do you believe all the supernatural assertions in that book (the Koran) just because some guy in the 600's wrote down a story of super-natural events?

mere existence does not make any of the stories true or give Jesus any supernatural connections.

How do you know that Satan never invented the ENTIRE realm of the supernatural, including all the weird stories about Jesus?

God doesn't make an appearance in most of King's stories, which is understandable enough: The horror genre requires the supernatural, but it doesn't require the divine.

There's a yearning for a spiritual vision of the universe that is not supernatural but which acknowledges that while we may be tiny and not central to the universe, we are part of a great story — much greater than our religious heritage ever conceived.

The series also includes New Ghost Stories, an annual collection of supernatural fiction.

If it's over, write down your feelings A myth is a traditional story consisting of events that are ostensibly historical, though often supernatural, explaining the origins of a cultural practice

Based on the DC Comics / Vertigo «Hellblazer» graphic novels and the Warner Bros. film, the supernatural thriller Constantine tells the story of John Constantine, a man who has literally been to hell and back.