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The Roman soldiers did not break Jesus' legs, as they did to the other two men crucified (breaking the legs hastened the crucifixion process), as Jesus was dead already; this further fulfilled prophecy, as noted in John 19:36, "For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken." One of the ...
The sort of vampires you're likely thinking of, the ones with supernatural powers and eternal life only exist in books, TV shows and serial killer movies. That said, there certainly are people who ...
While the characteristics of fictional vampires have changed throughout history - some burn to a crisp in the sunlight, others have famously sparkly skin - they have one thing in common: immortality.
His 1835 work, Life of Jesus, [32] was one of the first and most influential systematic analyses of the life story of Jesus, aiming to base it on unbiased historical research. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Strauss viewed the miraculous accounts of Jesus' life in the gospels in terms of myths which had arisen as a result of the community's imagination as it ...
Loaded Bible is a series of one-shot comic books (and a comic book mini-series) written by Tim Seeley, with art by Nate Bellegarde, [1] the first of which, Jesus vs. Vampires, was published in February 2006 by Image Comics.
The Vampire, by Philip Burne-Jones, 1897. A vampire is a mythical creature that subsists by feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living.In European folklore, vampires are undead humanoid creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods which they inhabited while they were alive.
Tales of the undead consuming the blood or flesh of living beings have been found in nearly every culture around the world for many centuries. [3] Today these entities are predominantly known as vampires, but in ancient times, the term vampire did not exist; blood drinking and similar activities were attributed to demons or spirits who would eat flesh and drink blood; even the devil was ...
Vampire Hunter D, which has a special legacy in the U.S. as one of the first anime to really break through to the English-speaking world, is set in a distant post-apocalyptic future, one where ...