Sentences with phrase «supposed authors lived»

Most of the supposed authors lived AFTER Jesus was dead.

Not exact matches

I re-read a book recently, and the author wrote about how she was supposed to speak at an event, and when she asked which topic they would like to here her expound upon, they said, well, just tell us what is saving your life right now.

We could argue that their books were written by several different authors over a period of several decades, all of whom had competing interests and goals, most of which involve self - advancing propaganda and fictional tales of the supposed author's life and ideas.

I suppose it is somewhat close to your second option, but even then, when we understand the overall message of Hebrews, the author is not too concerned with sin itself, and is instead concerned with people going back to living under the law instead of living in fellowship with Jesus.

In America many Christians who insist on a literal interpretation of anything in the Bible are often ready to say «but, in this case, Jesus didn't really mean...» when both Jesus and the author of this Gospel labor to convey «You aren't supposed to try to take the live of other things on Earth... that's the whole point, I want you to take on life that only I can offer!»

The author quotes apologist Lee Strobel as saying, «It wasn't too many years ago that scholars were writing off apologetics because we live in a postmodern world where young people are not supposed to be interested in things like the historical Jesus... The biggest shock is that among people who communicated to me that they had found faith in Christ through apologetics, the single biggest group was 16 - to -24-year-olds.»

All we know about Jesus comes from 4 short stories written 50 - 130 years after his supposed crucifixion by anonymous authors who couldn't have known him personally, who radically disagreed with each other about what happened during his life.

According to a growing number of experts, those exhilarating, Instagrammable moments don't permanently raise the setting on your day - to - day blissometer — and by chasing fleeting highs, you may be missing the opportunity for true joy, with a small j. «We live in a culture that tells us we're supposed to be euphoric all the time, but that feeling isn't sustainable,» says life coach and sociologist Martha Beck, author of Finding Your Own North Star ($ 16; amazon.com).

Elle (Eva Green)-- whose name, as is often commented on in the film, literally translates to «Her» — is a supposed super-fan who ingratiates herself into Delphine's life as a «good listener» before gradually moving into the author's flat and taking over her work, deleting slanderous Facebook posts, responding to emails, and even attending a face - to - face gig in her place.

The app, Vellum, is supposed to make the entire formatting and distributing process even easier and more professional - looking, with real time live previews, then allow authors to distribute that same file (re: the same work they did once) to all of the ebook retailers.

by author Gail Kittleson I suppose most fiction draws from the author's life.

Taking all the marketing tools mentioned above into consideration, authors are supposed to live larger than they already embodied in their novel.

Finally — I'm supposed to be at work — I think it's often forgotten that the vast majority of authors don't do it full time, and don't make millions (or even thousands) out of it; the big names like JK Rowling or Ian Rankin might be able to exist full time as authors, but most of them don't, and while no one has an absolute right to be able to live off the proceeds of their writing, I'm sure many do feel that the creators should be a little more fairly remunerated than at times is the case.

It's supposed to be loosely based on the author's own life and, if that's true, I think he's a bit of a bastard.