Sentences with phrase «stories of the supernatural are»

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

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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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Let's face it, if you've seen one superhero story, you've pretty much seen them all: alien / regular kid affected by supernatural powers / rich person with access to fantastic gadgets rises to meet regular threats from ne'erdowells, learning lessons about the costs of being a hero.

Gone is the Shakespearean tragedy of Shotgun Stories and the parable of Mud and in its place we experience the otherworldly and supernatural elements that he attempted with Take Shelter.

The story fits well into the superhero mode, of a man discovering the full range of his powers (both natural and supernatural), and how to be a King.

The emotional aspects of the story are treated with such a heavy hand, the supernatural aspects are so vague and uninvolving, and the group dynamic is so unconvincing that one can't quite imagine why anybody bothered.

The Haunting is a superior ghost story that still doesn't overcome the stumbling - block of the whole subgenre: if there's any chance for a rational explanation for weird events, anything non-supernatural is as least as credible as the supernatural conclusions everyone is so fast to embrace.

It is better, perhaps, to think of «The Uninvited» as a precursor of the many supernatural love stories — like «The Ghost and Mrs. Muir» (1947) and «Portrait of Jennie» (1948)-- that appeared in the grim aftermath of World War II, when American had again become, in Drew Gilpin Faust's phrase, a republic of suffering.

A new poster and trailer have arrived online for writer - director Adam Egypt Mortimer's upcoming supernatural slasher Some Kind of Hate, which we've got for you right here... Some Kind of Hate tells the story of a troubled teen who's subjected to severe bullying.

A supernatural depiction of love and loss that delves deep into the science fiction realm of a grander understanding, A Ghost Story was unlike any film seen this year or any other.

Cemetery Man is campy at times, there's lots of old school gore, black humor, murder sprees, a supernatural reoccurring love story, odd characters and shifts in tone (the first half is VERY different from the latter half).

Whereas Phantom Thread and Personal Shopper suggest that ghosts are the psychic projections of the grieving, it is the unmoored souls of the dead who are left behind to do the mourning in A Ghost Story; it parallels Alejandro Amenábar's likeminded The Others (2001) as one of the century's best supernatural films so far.

After Sophie is a proof - of - concept film about what happens when a documentary filmmaker investigating the story discovers that the details surrounding Sophie's suicide are both disturbing and supernatural.

Here's details of the full line - up... THURS 1ST MARCH 21:00 GHOST STORIES (Special screening) Professor Philip Goodman (Andy Nyman) is a renowned sceptic of the supernatural and clairvoyant.

The story follows a group of college students who play a supernatural game of truth or dare who are then haunted by spirits.

The epic cast for this epic series is long; but look for Nonso Anozie as Samson (as in the story of Samson and Delilah)-- the Israelite who was granted supernatural strength by God (his strength is in his hair) in order to combat his enemies and perform heroic feats like wrestling a lion, and slaying an entire army (photo above); and also Keith David provides voice - overs throughout.

Of course, the movie has its supernatural elements — and a couple of inexplicable Michael Bay - style shots — but she dishes them out sparingly (the baseball scene rules), knowing that this is first and foremost a love storOf course, the movie has its supernatural elements — and a couple of inexplicable Michael Bay - style shots — but she dishes them out sparingly (the baseball scene rules), knowing that this is first and foremost a love storof inexplicable Michael Bay - style shots — but she dishes them out sparingly (the baseball scene rules), knowing that this is first and foremost a love story.

Of course this is less a biopic, more a supernatural thriller, but Winchester's story is truly interesting.

Poltergeist, directed by Tobe Hooper and produced by Steven Spielberg, is the story of a suburban family who buy a new home only to discover that they share it with a number of supernatural entities.