Sentences with phrase «supernatural beings like»

But nothing takes the sting out of scary, supernatural beings like calmly explaining them in detail, so that wasn't going to fly, not entirely.

Well, it's all about a virginal clairvoyant named Sookie and her encounters with supernatural beings like vampires, especially one sexy and virtuous vampire named Bill.

Not exact matches

Day, 36, who is known for her work on TV and web shows like Dr. Horrible's Sing - Along Blog, Supernatural, and The Guild, helped define what a successful career in digital culture can look like and, in the process, has been bestowed the title of «queen of the geeks» (an honorific she has resisted).

NO Christhinks - Even some atheists like myself have tremendous respect for Jesus Christ, even if we don't believe he was a supernatural being.

If there was any evidence that anything supernatural was real, real scientists would be testing that evidence to find out more and people like you and your indoctrinators would not need to manipulate (and threaten) others into belief!

There are many biblical predictions («prophecies» in bible terms) that have been fulfilled, predictions that were made hundreds of years before the event, like the fall of some empires / nations (ancient and current), a natural and supernatural sign at a particular place, a catastrophe, etc..

And O'Connor believed, like all Christians, that this supernatural reality is ultimately a mystery that we can not explain but nevertheless resides at the center of our existence.

That is, if we had souls they would not likely be «supernatural» or extra-dimensional since we see absolutely NO evidence of anything like that in physics at all.

Atheism is just a belief position on gods, and atheist could, theoretically, believe in all manner of supernatural things, like crystals, libertarian free will, or qi.

Why assume that it's something supernatural like a god?

Becky «@bob: i have a hard time with no «should» and no «right»... maybe that's my evangelical up - bringing coming out, but it seems to me that there is a reality that exists, and i would really like to know what that reality is, and whether supernatural / spiritual / whatever is there or not, because it seems that it makes a whole lot of difference»

So like Jesus, Attis is born to a virgin (Nana who magically stays a virgin despite being a mother) impregnated by supernatural sperm.

@bob: i have a hard time with no «should» and no «right»... maybe that's my evangelical up - bringing coming out, but it seems to me that there is a reality that exists, and i would really like to know what that reality is, and whether supernatural / spiritual / whatever is there or not, because it seems that it makes a whole lot of difference

This may appear to be an admirable expression of an undogmatic attitude, but it depends upon characterizing as «practical atheists» historians who, like Sanders, reject supernatural intervention.

You have eye witness accounts in the bible, you have present day people telling you he's there, knowing he's there, not belief, knowing, you have vast supernatural events like the big bang that happened once and never again, you have life starting up, species forming, male and female that have to be there for offspring, and lo and behold... you deny all of them because God being there, isn't what you wanted.

Yeah, that sort of makes the whole thing supernatural, and yes that requires evangelicals to see the fruit of the Spirit and the «mere Christianity» in believers in other denominations (and none), but I'm just naive and stupid enough to think God can do stuff like that.

kermit, If the elected officials need guidance from a supernatural being to do their job — why not do it on their own time either at home before they leave for work or get to the office early and pray alone or with a group of like - minded co-workers?

Such exemplary functions, like all other functions of the Angels, are supernatural.

The Spirit does not work like a supernatural force, nor is it the permanent possession of the believer.

In starting with the evolving world, I do not presuppose like the naturalists or Marxists that the world is self - sufficient, i.e., that it has all the powers needed to evolve itself, for this presupposition which is really nothing else but the notion of an Aristotelian nature has not really transcended the dualism of a natural and a supernatural order.

How can you tell that this isn't just a delusion, like the ways that other religions appear to be tapping into the supernatural?

The result was an attempt to «demythologise» religion, to prune away all references to the supernatural: events like miracles and the resurrection of the dead, and doctrines like the Holy Trinity and the divinity of Christ.

I love it when people like you try to present the idea that faith is a wash between spiritual believers and those without a belief in the supernatural.

First, young Christians are increasingly turning away from the supernatural nonsesnse of religion (immortality, mind reading, sky - gods, talking snakes etc.) and no longer buy into the core morality of the evangelicals on important issues like gay rights and $ exual mores.

It was only after he found fame as an adult that his followers, like those of any religious or cult leader, felt the need to embellish his birth to supernatural status and fit it into to the expectations of the people they were trying to convince or influence.

And real people pay no attention to fools like yourself who believe in mythical supernatural beings that can raise the dead and read our thoughts.

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.

Supernatural theism is what you get if you literalize or semi-literalize the personal imagery for God in the Bible, so that God becomes a person - like being.

I certainly did not get the idea from those verses of anything like total depravity or that fallen man had to experience any kind of supernatural transformation of the will / heart in order to be able to accept God's convicting / convincing / persuading / call / drawing, instructions, teachings, commands, promises and gifts.

supernatural events are NOT exclusive to HUGE events... like global flood, etc etc.... and just cause there are a FEW errors (supposedly) in the regional stuff, that is no reason to throw the baby out with the bath water.thats not how history works..

Or is that just to hard for your small mind to grasp and you would rather just assign a supernatural integer to explain it so you can feel like you «know» how it all happened...

''... and since there are no reliable recorded observations of «supernatural» influences on the physical world...» ------------- You can not make a blanket statement like this.

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.

Ancient literature, like modern fairy tales, is full of narratives in which gods and other supernatural beings disguise themselves as human beings, sometimes as the lowest of the low, and roam throughout the world to see how people will treat them.

This older Puritan world was premodern and frankly supernatural, like its parent Catholicism.

Like we've said for the past few thousand years, there are no gods or supernatural beings.

And I especially like the comment about noone, not even their supernatural being, telling them it's wrong, so it must be right.

It's pretty indicting stuff as I saw myself in this post regarding wanting the «immediacy of their god», the magic of everything being supernatural and having that built in «family» of like minded followers.

What you and those like you are doing is using reason and logic which is NATURAL (not yelling just an emphasis), in an attemmpt to disprove the supernatural.

I like Jesus and his teachings — I just can't immediately accept the supernatural aspects, be they true.

Family Radio: You are NO prophets, you have NO supernatural «magic» powers from God, and you have NO ability to predict anything in the future no matter how much you study the Bible and you are NOT God's chosen... sorry, it's just plain old life and you're going to have to suck it up and live it like the rest of us.

One of the things that makes The Exorcist different than some of the other recently popular shows in the horror genre (like The X-Files, The Walking Dead, True Blood, etc.) is that it isn't based on supernatural lore, sci - fi, ghosts or aliens.

When we feel forces that are out of our control we assume a natural force like a cabal or some supernatural force controlling things.

If you are like me, you might be a little tired of hearing about the supernatural realm, but this book was insightful and creative and helped me think through a few issues I have been wanting to study further for quite some time.

Also, the natural can easily be initiated by the Supernatural, just like Creation, it was the natural manifestation of the Supernatural Command, that is the Divine Spoken Word.

I like all people was created by parents with no supernatural force required.

I have also read the intellectual musings of Hobbes, Spinoza, Khayyam and the like, it seems to me that God if there is one or many; should be personal and doesn't have to exist in the natural or supernatural world, He / she / it / them only need to exist in the mind of the believer that needs to believe.

When the supernatural is invoked, it clearly means the person has no actual explanation and wants to resort to «I don't want to look like I don't know, so I'll just say that it's magic».

It would therefore seem like a dubious retrogression to discredited ideas if we were now suddenly to postulate such a supernatural «intervention» for the miracle of the resurrection: this would contradict all scientific thinking as well as all ordinary convictions and experiences.

I'm well - versed in denting the shields of my opponents with science, logic, facts, reason, and sometimes, rhetoric, but I'm not sure you'd like for me to be the candidate, because I really do not honor or respect the supernatural in this day and age of reason.