Sentences with phrase «supernatural experiences in»

A supernatural experience in the hospital, after super invasive heart surgery...

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Heaven is going to be such a supernatural celebration that our greatest earthly pleasures will pale in comparison to the things we experience in heaven.

@BillyD:»... if a reliable witness tells me he has experienced something which modern science, in all it's glory can not explain, much less degrade, then the simplest rationale is to accept that he has indeed had an encounter with the supernatural.»

My argument is that if a reasonable, sane and reliable witness tells me he has experienced something which modern science, in all it's glory can not explain, much less degrade, then the simplest rationale is to accept that he has indeed had an encounter with the supernatural.

Polanyi places this idea in historical context: «when the supernatural authority of laws, churches and sacred texts had waned or collapsed, man tried to avoid the emptiness of mere self - assertion by establishing over himself the authority of experience and reason.»

The element of truth in this view of the supernatural is the obvious fact that religious experience is only possible to beings with mental or spiritual capacities, i.e., to human beings.

it should though when you experience something that is without a doubt supernatural, and anyone with intelligence can understand that a revelation or a message that takes a sovereign «person» to translate something in the near, or distant future, it is PROOF, of God, just is the bible is proof of God, as it is His very Word through the direct revelation to the prophets.

Supernatural personal experiences with an invisible elusive ent.ity that hasn't been able to, or doesn't want to assist with the human condition in a way that actually works is a non-issue and has no relevance in a discussion on truth and definitely non on peace.

Here then is a theology that either means nothing certainly identifiable (without supernatural grace or high genius in the art of reconnecting with experience concepts carefully divested of relation to it) or else means that the world might exactly as well not have existed, or as well have existed with far more evil or less good in it than it actually presents.

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.

In my own journey, I have been led from supernatural theism to seeing God as the encompassing Spirit, from seeing God as another being out there, to seeing God, or the Sacred, or the Spirit (terms which I use synonymously and interchangeably) as a nonmaterial layer or level of reality all around us, more real than the world of our ordinary, visible experience.

«Mysticism,» in this sense, does not refer to miraculous visions or signs or supernatural experiences.

From Adam and eve in the garden, to jacob and the angels ladder to moses and the burning bush, to daniel and visions to elijah and power over elements to Jesus where it is written that he performed so many more miracles than were written down, to the experience pf the apostles time and time again supporting their message through supernatural events.......

When people experience hardships they easily fall back on belief in the supernatural to get them out of it «Please God» «Dear God» «Oh God, I know you won't let me be tested beyond what I can bear» which distracts them from the hardship.

So far I have never seen, heard, read, watched, felt or experienced anything supernatural, though I have experienced Yosemite Falls in winter which was naturally super

However, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, and other believers in supernatural beings claim similar personal experiences and warm, fuzzy feelings regarding their invisible friend (god).

I approach the Bible in all three connections as the communication of doctrine from God; as the instrument of Jesus Christ's personal authority over Christians (which is part of what I mean in calling it canonical; as the criterion of truth and error regarding God and godliness; as wisdom for the ordering of life and food for spiritual growth; and, thus, as the mystery - that is, the transcendent supernatural reahty - whereby encounter and fellowship with the Father and the Son become realities of experience.

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.

I lived Jesus, i have seen the change in my life, I have come face to face with the supernatural, I have experienced the Power of God so I know I am correct, but this is me, I share my faith, never force it.

Eschatological expectations are no longer grounded in the supernatural, as they always had been until 1945; now they have been brought home to the immediate level of common worldly experience.

That supernatural order of life which the apocalyptists had predicted in terms of pure fantasy is now described as an actual fact of experience.

It concerns worship, beliefs in the supernatural, prayer, the ecstasy of religious experience, and the escape of meditative withdrawal.

lol this is hillarious and if I grew up in the middle east I would still be a Christian, the gospel message is preached there as well and it makes the most sense, especially when I have experienced God's supernatural power for myself!

In the Christian experience as it was enjoyed in the fellowship, the early believers were confident that they were in possession of the supernatural blessings which the prophets had foretolIn the Christian experience as it was enjoyed in the fellowship, the early believers were confident that they were in possession of the supernatural blessings which the prophets had foretolin the fellowship, the early believers were confident that they were in possession of the supernatural blessings which the prophets had foretolin possession of the supernatural blessings which the prophets had foretold.

In the Middle Ages the theologians had divided the universe into two areas of experience, the natural and supernatural.

Christianity wants persons to believe in a supernatural, interventionist, all - knowing judging God but through my experiences I have come to the same conclusion to which the embattled, controversial United Church of Canada minister Greta Vosper has come — God is not interventionist and supernatural:

Such concepts offered a perception of the appearance of the Buddha in which the experience «Buddha» was not exhausted in the appearance of the teacher; rather they were grounded in the (religious) experience of a «supernatural» manifestation.

To then say that this experience is the direct result of intercessory action of a supernatural agent who works invisibly in altering the universe as we know it....

The problem with «spiritual but not religious» is that it still invokes some supernatural concept or experience rather being grounded in reality.

Insofar as this authorization of freedom towards absolute being is experienced as absolute nearness to this goal permitted by grace, the character of creaturely freedom becomes clearer when this goal opens itself, even though this experience can become objective only through its interpretation in supernatural revelation and in faith.

The chief points of change are, first, that the scene has been transferred from the supernatural world of the gods to the earthly sphere of human history; secondly, that It is not a god who experiences the renewal of life (for the God of Israel is not himself subject to death and resurrection, but on the contrary initiates and controls these events) but the people of Israel, who look in hope for restoration when their existence is threatened; and thirdly, that this hope is expressed as a metaphor describing the historical future, rather than as a myth of cosmic renewal.

The proof that it was here was found in the actual presence of the Spirit, that is, of the supernatural in the experience of men.

But the greater their success in coordinating faith's mysteries and human experience, the less clear became the distinction between faith and reason, supernatural and natural orders.

In my experience, most atheists have a pretty similar outlook to liberal theists, we just don't buy into he supernatural elements of their faith.

From personal experience i was in a church who has the whole congregation pray for 1/2 hour in tongues.The people in this church were leaders from Africa.A place who sees more supernatural then us because we feel the need to analyze the thing to death.When we did the atmosphere shifted lives were changed.When i was on a mission trip to Mexico i felt lead to go pray with the women who in that culture are outcasts one of ladies who came with me started singing in the spirit as i was we stopped each other in shock when we realized we were sing the same song the needs of the women were met with out an interrupter.

Instead of being fearful of the supernatural because of what I experienced, Christ has enabled me to help people going through that and even cleanse their homes in the name of Jesus.

The latter is human, it is not supernatural, and one needn't believe in a god in order to have such experiences affect and guide their lives.

And Jonathan Edwards says in the same strain: «Those gracious influences which are the effects of the Spirit of God are altogether supernatural — are quite different from anything that unregenerate men experience.

In fact, I am more intolerant of those who from some limited 19th century view of science preclude the supernatural than I am of those who say that on the basis of their experience in the Christian community they affirm the miraculouIn fact, I am more intolerant of those who from some limited 19th century view of science preclude the supernatural than I am of those who say that on the basis of their experience in the Christian community they affirm the miraculouin the Christian community they affirm the miraculous.

He grew up in the Church, but that supernatural feeling that takes Christianity from an intellectual pursuit, a moral challenge and a social force for change into a life - altering, real experience, remains elusive.

And at the same time the sense of the supernatural which once weighed quite heavily with him has now receded, and plays a decreasing role in his thinking and experience.

While it can be used to report subjective experience («I felt sublime in church today») it has no place in extrapolating this subjective experience to external assertions about the structure of the universe («I felt sublime in church today, THEREFORE there exists a supernatural agent who acted upon me in a such a way as to make me feel sublime»).

The word God in its supernatural context has become a block to the very reality it expresses since we believe «in» God rather than discover within our own historical context the experience of transcendence.

Nevertheless it does not seem to be the belief in a supernatural power or the experience of miracles that most helps an individual to gain a feeling of control over his own life.

We need not go so far as to say with the author whom I lately quoted that any persistent enthusiasm is, as such, religion, nor need we call mere laughter a religious exercise; but we must admit that any persistent enjoyment may produce the sort of religion which consists in a grateful admiration of the gift of so happy an existence; and we must also acknowledge that the more complex ways of experiencing religion are new manners of producing happiness, wonderful inner paths to a supernatural kind of happiness, when the first gift of natural existence is unhappy, as it so often proves itself to be.

Truth is neither side can prove anything either way in reapect, and since science must jump off at the supernatural (that outside of known natural laws) they can't automatically discount those that have had religious experiences that give certain individuals logical reasoning based off their faith inter purely of natural experiences.

After her death, her parents experienced supernatural occurrences in the house, like shit moving around and mysterious whispering.

Join in on this concert for an unforgettable experience of the supernatural power of God as we dwell in his presence.

Experience the healing and supernatural strength that only God can provide when He hears from us in prayer!

Sookie hunts for Jason under a full moon; Arlene and Terry wonder about the cause of a strange fire; Debbie pressures Alcide to relocate; Lafayette has a spiritual experience in Mexico; Eric gives in to a higher authority; Marnie has contact with her supernatural predecessors.