Sentences with phrase «other mythical character»

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.

Not exact matches

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).

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.

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.

I understand that they have said that (in probably one of the greatest doctrinal about faces in history) but when you look at the official Catholic Catachism, it is still riddled with references to Adam and Eve, Noah and the other cast of mythical characters.

In other cultures such stories are usually thought of as myths, but it is an offense to suggest to the pious Christian or Jew of the older school that the Bible is in any sense mythical in character.

The Coens have put some mythical baddies in their movies, and while the sight of some of them might strike fear in the hearts of men faster (Randall «Tex» Cobb in «Raising Arizona,» for one), you better believe that no other movie they make as long as they live will feature a character as calmly badass as Anton Chigurh.

Whereas Ten Thousand Immortals fully embraced Lara's new character arc, picking up after the 2013 Tomb Raider and serving as a lead - in to Rise of the Tomb Raider, this novel instead mostly stands out on its own as a nostalgic, globe - trotting adventure romp that feels more like a story that would have fit right in with the series» early games — mythical Egyptian creatures, twin 9 mm pistol - packing action, double crosses, rivalries with other treasure hunters, geeky archaeology and all.

Shapeless human characters distort into anthropomorphic shadows of the other self; identities lost in translation from the past to the contemporary, and abstract lines and bold strokes of contrasting hues intersect, creating a layered configuration of Cissé's mythical visions.

Early in 2011, the two artists spontaneously began to dream about each other as characters in mythical dream adventures.