So, while their invisible / nonexistent
all powerful deity was helping him score a silly TD how many children were r@ped and murdered and how many thousands lay on the ground with bloated bellies begging for a handful of rice?
In reference to the flood, one of the most important points to grasp is that in ancient Middle Eastern cosmology, the waters of the world — especially large bodies of water such as the ocean and the sea — were considered to be the dwelling places of
powerful deities.
Many soulganisms are entwined to create
a powerful deity.
I agree with Polka... why would an all
powerful deity go through the rigamarole of a flood?
Nobody, not even an all -
powerful deity, can GIVE you wisdom.
I'm the guy that wants you to have
the all powerful deity, the perfectly good deity that really can stop bad people from doing bad things.
So
your all powerful deity didn't already know who was prideful?
Disbelief in god has nothing to do with relationship styles and everything to do with common sense that there never has been, never will be some mythical all -
powerful deity.
Funny then how
an all powerful deity allows people to blissfully condemn themselves to hell for the simple act of having a rabbit's foot.
A «holy» and «god inspired» book that requires countless other books and self - appointed experts to explain what should be a simple, concise and clear message is not the work of a beneficent and all - knowing /
powerful deity.
The order of nature for them is the creation of an all -
powerful deity who left nothing to chance, nor for that matter, to the entities the deity created.
It would have been fairly simple for
an all powerful deity to command his people in Leviticus to «Free all slaves, do not own another human.
Theists escape responsibility by projecting a part of their will onto an all -
powerful deity to whom they must submit.
Oh, and an all -
powerful deity can't handle a little lip from its creations?
Is it really logical to think that
a powerful deity would speak directly to us and have an intimate relationship with us?
It would have been easier to just try again with two more people but somehow that never occured to
an all powerful deity.
Surely your all -
powerful deity could produce at least an iPad or multimedia content for same... yet it remains incredible that such a creature needs a medium to get its message across, and even with said medium, can't do the job without error.
Surely your all -
powerful deity could produce at least an iPad or multimedia content for same... yet it remains incredible that such a creature needs a physical medium to get its message across, and even with said medium, can't do the job without error.
I seldom go to church, and I often find myself agreeing with the likes of Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens that organized religions are mostly artifacts of premodern cultures that in ancient times created all -
powerful deities to explain and cope with the unknown.
During our trip we stop to visit the glorious Yamdrok Lake, said to be populated by
powerful deities.
Alas, the world of Populous is a polytheistic one, which means you aren't the only super
powerful deity going Old Testament all over creation.
Pantheon is a MMORPG that takes place on Terminus, a high fantasy world of
powerful deities, valiant heroes, insidious enemies and fantastic creatures.
A central figure is the ancient Goddess Mazu, protector of seafarers —
a powerful deity in the legends of Fujian, the native home of the lost cockle pickers.
Not exact matches
And how exactly is a mere mortal supposed ot know the «will» of an all -
powerful, all - knowing, immortal, immaterial
deity?
So let me get this straight, it's far fetched for us to NOT have been created by a God and that's illogical but you believe there's a heaven and hell, a mystical
deity who watches over us yet fails to intervene in bloodshed that occurs daily in his name, this
deity is all
powerful but for some reason can't do anything more than a coin toss could and for some reason everything he can do is limited to exactly the same domain as nature (EX: God can never regenerate a missing limb)?
I think that this view our our human interrelationships leads us forcefully to think of persons as containing
powerful qualities that we can access and enjoy, pick up and put down, almost like
deities in a polytheistic cosmos.
An atonement theology directed towards the assuaging of guilt before God is a
powerful gospel — in contexts where God is immediately and almightily real; or where (as we may note more skeptically) a religion is still
powerful enough to hold up before its host culture the image of a holy and righteous
deity before whom none is worthy except through the appropriate cultic observations.
A personal god was nothing more than an exalted father - figure: desire for such a
deity sprang from infantile yearnings for a
powerful, protective father, for justice and fairness and for life to go on forever.
We must begin, though, with a confession that the idea of a designing and controlling
deity whose existence is rightly denied by many skeptics is also problematic from the point of view of a kenotic theology.If God is all -
powerful in the sense of being able to manipulate things at will, then the facts of evolution do indeed cast doubt on the plausibility of theism.
Perhaps your
deity isn't so
powerful after all.
I'm a parent... I would NEVER EVER EVER have ANY inclination to create a world for my kids if I could create one that had ANY suffering or evil in it and I'm not a «perfect» all
powerful, all loving
deity.
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.
«Atheist, in the end, simply can not humble themeselves to a
deity but try and make trivial a very
powerful force» - No.
If an all -
powerful, caring
deity desired to help with the fires, he would have done it already.
Thus he pictures a future in which the maintenance of distinctions between male and female has largely given way to the cultivation of androgynous personality aided by surgical and biochemical manipulation (UP 371 - 84); in which the notion of a substantial self enduring through time (and responsible for its actions) is superceded and «one is freed to be a career of selves strung out in time» (UP 390; cf. 384 - 97); in which the worship of a single all -
powerful God has given way to the experiencing of a pantheon of «momentary
deities» (UP 397 - 411) 4 Morality in our sense will no longer have a place in Hall's «anarchic» world.
Tribal and nationalistic
deities in particular have commonly been associated with the dominant customs and the ruling class, have been regarded as committed to the support of national policies, have become often gods of the
powerful rather than of the weak, of the rich rather than of the impoverished, of the existent system rather than of social reformation.
Yamantaka, for example, the most
powerful of the «eight dreadful
deities» in tantric lore, was pictured with flailing arms in an aura of red flames and smoke.
According to one recent view, for example, belief in a «big God» — an all -
powerful, punitive
deity who sits in moral judgement on our actions — has been instrumental in bringing about social and political complexity in human cultures.
The story concerns the adventures of Milla Maxwell and Jude Mithas: One, a beauteous incarnation of a revered
deity, who has four
powerful elemental spirits at her beck and call.
With Vampire Bill being rebirthed as a
powerful ancient
deity to Louisiana Governor Truman Burrell declaring open season on all vampires to Sookie Stackhouse finding herself sidelined by a mysterious stranger with a hidden agenda, this season is the most exciting yet.
Actually, this monetary god is likely more
powerful, evil, and wrathful than any previous
deity.
A famous Hindi
Deity, Shiva is regarded as the most
powerful god in Hinduism.
The entire game is suffused with Old Testament motifs, and it revolves around the idea of a
powerful yet caring
deity.
After obtaining all twenty four masks in the game and trading them to the Moon Children Inside the Moon, the last child rewards Link with the Fierce
Deity's Mask, an all -
powerful item that can only be used in boss rooms.
It's not an «educational game» by any means but it will, for example, teach players about Inanna, one of the most
powerful and important Sumerian
deities.
Year 2014 Developer Giant Army Link Official site This space simulator lets you become an all -
powerful cosmic
deity, manipulating replicas of real galaxies and solar systems and witnessing the (often catastrophic) results of your meddling.
If you didn't get around to Tomb Raider last year and you don't have a gaming PC
powerful enough to make
deities tremble, then Definitive Edition is the version to get.