Sentences with phrase «about the deity in»

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Much of your argument such as I've seen, for your sky fairy (and I really think that is an appropriate term for your obviously fictional deity with all the self - contradictory tales about it in the bible), really seems to consist of a combination of willed ignorance and arguments from ignorance.

Besides it being written in a book, and I don't see how guys writting a book equals an infallible deity, but how does one go about proving a deity created everything?

But they try to make it look like it is about «belief» in the sense of faith (in a deity or non faith in a deity) and as often as not it is about political views (beliefs) and elections and politicians (and nothing to do with deity).

It doesn't bother me in the least that I won't have to sit worshiping at the feet of some egotistical deity for all eternity, or try to make some demon feel good about himself.

As someone who does not believe in a deity, I spent a lot of time thinking about what it means to «pray».

So, the deity, rather than just letting A&E go about their merry way and letting them bask in its glory instead points out the very tree that would be their downfall.

We have the lowly at the bottom who have little except for their «faith», then you have the guys with a special link to their «deity», who preach to the lowly about all their «sins»... I wonder what's in it for the creator?

Buddhism (in its true form) provides a guide to the elimination of suffering, not deity worship; in fact never talks about God or gods in the sense the west does... FYI Buddha was born 630 years before Jesus, and it is proven that Buddhism traveled from eastern India all the way to Syria and the Middle East via the Silk Road... i am quite sure Jesus had heard some of his teachings... some of the things that Jesus says are a direct reflection of the eightfold path from buddhism... Jesus was the greatest salesman of all time... sold the most books in history... he really honestly does nt deserve worship but an Academy Award

Those who believe in a deity all have very different ideas about what they are.

«It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate, and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.»

I always put it this way: I am an atheist in the sense that I reject all man - made truth claims about a deity.

So what is it about you that makes you see yourself as a lowly worm, as a sinning evil creature in need of saving from something, as someone who needs a deity to make all the rules for their lives?

One thinks of Theresa with her comparison of the life of prayer to a medieval castle, of John of the Cross with his lovely story of the lover in the garden of cypresses, and of Meister Eckhart (the most abstract of them all) with his talk about a spark of deity that seems to become the very self of the person praying.

Some of the discussion was about Jesus and in what way he embodied or presented deity.

Latins do not vote their religion, they are an ethnic vote and so are the Jews (the Jews don not care about deity, just their share of the pie in the sky).

You are certainly making some rather HUGE and completely unfounded presumptions about what a person who DOES NOT believe in a deity thinks and feels!

How about Christians stop making war on everyone else and insisting we believe in its deities to be saved?

I very rarely felt connected to deity sitting in a pew listening to someone talk about God.

For it to matter to me, I'd have to believe the claim of men, that a deity exists, and that this deity somehow influenced the men that wrote the various books of the Bible, and that the men who chose which books should be in the Bible somehow had superior knowledge about the universe that the rest of us lacked.

They wanted to get up in the morning and take a gift to their deity on their way to work, and pay for a successful day, and then go about their day know that they had done their duty for god.

There is nothing off - handed about a non-belief in a deity, just as there is nothing off - handed about not believing that giant invisible dragons live amongst us that eat our poop after we flush it down the toilet.

The idea of the «slain god» was a central theme in Frazer's Golden Bough, where he argued that Christianity's story is merely one of myriad «savage» myths and superstitions about deities killed by men.

This deity you are referring to would destroy itself in the moment it starts existing, but this deity is not the pure actuality we are talking about on # 1.

God CAN be denied by disbelief because there's no universal mandate to believe in any particular way about any particular deity proposed.

The unplausibility of theism without creaturely freedom4 and the absurdity of deity, or any actuality, as wholly timeless was apparent to Plato, who in late dialogues said that in God was «being and becoming» that God cares about the creatures, and is soul and therefore self - changing For him a changeless soul is a contradiction.

However, if one directly asks about belief in a deity (variable GOD) rather than spirituality, the objective correlation is opposite — and larger in magnitude.

What I don't get is, if they don't believe in a god, deity or nature spirits what does it matter to them if others do and why must they get so riled up about it like some sort of vendetta?

I am not here asking about the fathomless profundities of man's communion with the Deity, but about what anyone may observe when Christians are engaged in worship.

I'm not keen on the cartoon, as I don't think there's something about not believing in deities that magically leads to more rational thinking in general.

Tell your loved one — we have something in common — I don't see Jesus as deity neither — and yet I still persist about being a Christ (meaning Messiah — not God)- ian.

The idea that non believers have nothing to care about, nothing to live for and no reason to treat their fellow humans decently is a lie perpetrated by those who wish to keep people in bondage to the myth of a loving, yet just deity.

@Chad «true (it is possible to believe in a deity, but not wish to be affiliated with a particular insti tution), but that is not what the author is talking about in this article.

That said, atheists are genuinely concerned about their personal well - being when masses of disillusioned religious people hold the power to shift climate, start wars, and intrude on everyday activities in the name of an arbitrary * deity.

What is not secondary is the avoidance of two extremes: on the one hand the idea that we can capture deity in some verbal formulas free from obscurity or doubt, and on the other that we are totally unable to talk coherently about God.

They said they have made «a personal commitment to Jesus Christ that is still important in their life today,» that their faith is very important in their life today; believe that when they die they will go to Heaven because they have confessed their sins and accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior; strongly believe they have a personal responsibility to share their religious beliefs about Christ with non-Christians; firmly believe that Satan exists; strongly believe that eternal salvation is possible only through grace, not works; strong agree that Jesus Christ lived a sinless life on earth; strong assert that the Bible is accurate in all the principles it teaches; and describe God as the all - knowing, all - powerful, perfect deity who created the universe and still rules it today.

Now we return to the earlier question about God's nature and point out that deity is not unrelated to, nor unaffected by, the creation in which God is active.

In the face of a poor and pathetic deity, I would concur — if I believed that Bell was right about God.

When applied to God in human discourse, they are simply anthropomorphic representations of him, necessary in order that man have a way of thinking and speaking about the deity.

I was always depressed when I believed in the deity my parents taught me about.

Indeed, the nub of the whole inquiry about the nature of Deity lies in the answer to this question: Where do we think in our experience we touch the near end of God?

Even an appeal to the Bible as a source of information about God is not the solution, because the writers of Scripture faced the same problem as secular thinkers when it came to putting on paper the way in which the deity manifested itself to them.

You may not WANT it to be this way, simply because it labels athiest in the same manner as thiests, but that's not going to change the fact that an athiest has a BELIEF about something dealing with a deity just as much as a Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, etc. has a BELIEF about something dealing with a deity.

Do we think that only matter is the near end of him and that all the God there is is simply physical, or do we think that in spiritual life at its best we have touched the near end of Deity, and that when we start with that and think out through that as far as we can go, we are thinking most truly about him?

Deities exist in a fashion because they are talked about.

Russ — with respect to the unknowns about the universe versus what we perceive in our lives, I draw a distinction between purpose / meaning with respect to our individual experience and those we come in contact with which can impact future generations, and purpose / meaning with respect to that stemming from some alleged deity or causal force of the universe.

While I agree that vocal atheism, like in the article, seems less about «We don't believe in any sort of god or deities,» it does seem to be more about «We don't believe in Gods, neither should you.

But even they show that the contrary is the case, as Altizer himself demonstrates when he claims that he is talking about the absolute immanence or «presence - in - this - world» of the Word or Spirit, in consequence of the radical kenosis or self - emptying of the transcendent deity usually denoted by the word «God».

If a large group of people meet in a building, talk about deities, organize in a function, use member money to sponser an event to spread their word in order to disuade another religious group and prove their god does nt exist... Well, im sorry bub, but thats about as religious as it gets.

The only unified thing about atheists is that they don't believe in any deity.

What is more, he sees that to talk in the fashion in which he has done is intimately tied in with a picture of deity that is both biblically responsible and in accordance with what our contemporary knowledge has to tell us about the way things appear to us through observation and investigation.