Sentences with phrase «supernatural forces as»

On the surface, the story is about a company performing illegal experiments and it quickly escalates into human torture, religious cults, and supernatural forces as your search for the truth turns into a vicious fight for survival.

While the preview shows that the core of the Grimm Brothers» tale remains — with the pair being lured into a lavish gingerbread house by a wicked witch — the film takes the concept a step further, with the sibling duo dedicating their lives to fighting supernatural forces as a result of their experiences.

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Considering a supernatural force as first cause in creation of all we know and see requires a force outside of our dimension.

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Interesting that you think that magic super invisobuddy is «reality» and that accepting the real world as it is without any imaginary supernatural forces is «lies.»

Nevertheless, this book is being presented to you not only as fact, but as inerrant words dictated by the one supreme supernatural force in the universe (the Christian God), and someone is attempting to convince you to reorient your entire life according to it.

But the conscious decision to harm others does not exist as some supernatural force.

Also, seeing the Bible as folklore is the simplest explanation, requiring no supernatural forces.

Some suggest that we should re-symbolize, as Mother Earth, the mystery and complexity of nature on which we depend; and that this should replace the way monotheism related all forces, natural and supernatural, to the Sky Father.

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.

Many processes which we now regard as quite natural and logical were mysteries to medieval man and consequently offered a ready seedbed for all kinds of explanations which depended upon intervention by some supernatural force.

The autonomy of humanity from the realm of supernatural forces was considered by Marx as an axiomatic ontological truth that had been developed since ancient times, and he considered it to have an even more respectable tradition than Christianity.

Bultmann maintains that St. Paul shared the popular notion of the Spirit as «an agency which works like any other natural force... as if it were a kind of supernatural material».

In other words, running side by side we have the sea as something evil and something good, and the monster as a supernatural evil being, a symbol of anti-God forces, and a magnificent testimony to God's wisdom and power.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

As Cohn points out, Zoroaster's view that «the time would come when, in a prodigious final battle, the supreme god and his supernatural allies would defeat the forces of chaos and their human allies and eliminate them once and for all» deeply influenced certain Jewish groups which, in turn, «influenced the Jesus sect, with incalculable consequences».7

In fact, he wrote, the Virgin «had acted as the greatest force the western world ever felt, and had drawn man's activities to herself more strongly than any other power, natural or supernatural, had ever done.»

In the New Testament these misleading categories include space (e.g., Christ as «coming down» and «ascending»), time (eschatology as temporal finality), and causality (miracles and supernatural forces).

The team considered two classes of religion: MHGs and a broader belief in systems of supernatural punishment (or «BSP») for social transgressions, such as those enacted through ancestral spirits or inanimate forces such as karma.

Many people in rural African communities still believe that disability is caused by supernatural forces, curses and as «punishment» for wrongdoings — according to University of East Anglia research.

«We found that disability is often explained by things like extra marital affairs invoking a curse, witchcraft, supernatural forces such as demons or ghosts affecting the child, and the will of God.

When the results were combined, they formed a single, longer message that described the pleasure the murderer took in killing and described a motivation based on supernatural forces, but no clues as to his or her identity.

As youths, seven kids take on a supernatural force that uses their fears against them.

As friends, family and local police search for answers, they are drawn into an extraordinary mystery involving top - secret government experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one very strange little girl.

It's a clear sign of the times that as well as battling a supernatural force, the characters also have «issues» to contend with, sort of like a shallow genre take on 13 Reasons Why.

Nic Mathieu «s 3D film has been described as Black Hawk Dawn with supernatural forces — an enticing mashup that Netflix, not Universal, will release next month.

Black Film reports Paula Patton has been cast as a «villain» in the Stephanie Meyer - produced adaptation of Daniel O'Malley's novel about a young amnesiac woman being hunted by supernatural forces at Starz.

Even horror - fantasy elements are mixed in, as if the very common occurrences within the film are the result of witchcraft or meddling supernatural forces, further diluting an already farfetched film to the breaking point of absurdity.

In other Paramount news, JJ Abrams revealed that Overlord, the Wold War II movie that finds US soldiers discovering a Nazi lab that uses supernatural forces to try gruesome experiments will not, as has been rumoured, be part of the Cloverfield universe.

Bridges and Reynolds join forces in this supernatural comedy as dead cops who patrol the afterlife.

The actress is starring as a mother who stumbles upon a government conspiracy covering up supernatural forces after she goes looking for her missing son.

In the comics, M'Baku wanted Wakanda to return to a primitive state, so he joined forces with a radical religious cabal known as the White Gorilla Cult, who performed a supernatural ritual that endowed him with superhuman abilities.

As the now - cybernetically enhanced Billie frees Daud from a mysterious ship, the assassin tells her their new target: the supernatural force of chaos The Outsider, the root of both Daud's powers and those of Dishonored protagonists Corvo Attano and Emily Kaldwin.

Next up is It Follows, the acclaimed horror from director David Robert Mitchell, which stars Maika Monroe as a young girl pursued by a supernatural force after a sexual encounter.

Take a look below after the official synopsis... As a family returns home from vacation at the Grand Canyon, they innocently bring home a supernatural force that preys off their own -LSB-...]

Bill Pullman turns an unusually charismatic performance as a curious skeptic, and unlike many of the films on this list, Craven keeps things ambiguous as to whether any supernatural forces are really at work.

Snook and Scicluna - O'Prey, on the other hand, are given little to do here with their one - note roles as a mother in distress and a child preyed upon by malicious supernatural forces.

«John Carpenter blends horror and sci - fi in this action adventure set on Mars in the year 2176 as Martian police battle supernatural forces unleashed by a deep mining facility.»

Strange, on the other hand, has largely remained a semi-hermetic force of justice, focusing on supernatural threats and only joining a superhero team, such as the Defenders or the New Avengers, if the situation demands as much.

Fate is the Hunter brings into play several recognizable Twilight Zone tropes, including the question of supernatural forces at work, as well the series tightly constructed scripting and economical staging.

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Set in a gothic - noir universe that resembes 19th century Europe and filled with monsters, magic and strange technology, the game promises an engrossing storyline filled with wry humour and snappy dialogue as Van Helsing makes his way to Borgovia where he is to join forces with where former supernatural foes have enlisted his help to defeat a new evil.

The Darkness II is an intense first person shooter that puts you in the role of Jackie Estacado, don of a New York crime family and wielder of an ancient supernatural force of chaos known as The Darkness.

Developed by Digital Extremes and based on the supernatural horror comic book series created by Top Cow Productions, Inc., The Darkness II takes players down a brutal and personal path as Jackie Estacado, wielder of The Darkness — an ancient and ruthless force of chaos and destruction.

Publisher 2K Games sent over this launch trailer which shows protagonist Jackie Estacado wielding the dark supernatural force known as (again, appropriately enough) The Darkness against those who would harm him.

You will play as a supernatural assassin in Dishonored and there is promised to be a very flexible combat system which will allow you to mix stealth, supernatural powers and brute force to achieve your goals.

It doesn't explain the eerie profundity of self - described «super-medium» Vanda Vieira - Schmidt's Weltrettungsprojekt (World Rescue Project), 1995 — , a small edifice comprising more than three hundred thousand drawings created to save humanity from supernatural forces of doom, or The Sketchbook from Auschwitz, ca. 1943, a handheld catalogue of horrors illustrating life at the most infamous of Nazi death camps, rendered by a phantom known only as «MM.»

These masks known as «gle» or «ge,» are attributed to supernatural spiritual forces which interact with the physical world through masquerade.

IS IT DJINN: GHOSTS, MACHINES, MUSIC CONVERSATION Music Producer and Artist Fatima Al Qadiri and Shumon Basar Long before Artificial Intelligence arrived, technology has often been framed as a supernatural force.

«Magical Thinking» explores the supernatural powers and forces which are assigned to many things seen as symbols dominated by the belief that one's own thoughts, wishes or desires can influence the external world.