Sentences with phrase «stories about deities»

While there are «pagan» stories of resurrection, they are always stories about deities rising from the dead, not human beings.

The Bible, by contrast, undertakes to tell a story about a deity who is a person, someone with a particular beloved — a chosen people who are, it says, the apple of his eye.

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Unproven stories about mystical deities such as the Christian god are not a valid foundation for morals, especially when so much of Christian doctrine is so bigoted and violent.

If the stories told about the era are true, the Christians» greatest shortcoming was that they thought their strict monotheism prevented them from making the token offering to the emperor, who at the time was viewed as a deity.

One thinks of Theresa with her comparison of the life of prayer to a medieval castle, of John of the Cross with his lovely story of the lover in the garden of cypresses, and of Meister Eckhart (the most abstract of them all) with his talk about a spark of deity that seems to become the very self of the person praying.

I like how all those tales and stories are false... unless they are tales and stories about your personal brand of deity.

The idea of the «slain god» was a central theme in Frazer's Golden Bough, where he argued that Christianity's story is merely one of myriad «savage» myths and superstitions about deities killed by men.

Brigette, you missed the point of the quote... it was not about creating memories that sustain loved ones — that is the afterlife story of most religion — the point is to go ahead and live a good life because it is worth living... not because of fearing judgement of one deity or another.

Have you been also warned about false deities, unbelievable stories about GODs coming to earth and screwing the local inhabitants, then destroy the earth and of course done with evil angels.

This story is about Rubio making a comment on the age of the earth, not the existence of a deity.

Some of the tales about these ancient deities comes to life through the magic of puppets in Jim Henson's The Story Teller / Greek Myths.

Lauenstein - Denjongpa and his younger brother Aka grew up hearing their father's stories about Sikkim, a place where rocks could be deities and spiritual masters transformed themselves into rainbows when they died ---- events Westerners call «myths» but that Sonam insists were once commonplace.