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All creatures have a creator).
Not exact matches
844 In their religious behavior, however, men also display the limits and errors that disfigure the image of God in them: Very often, deceived by the Evil One, men
have become vain in their reasonings, and
have exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and served the
creature rather than the
Creator.
FIRST: The
Creator created a world that
had to potential to create, through free - will
creatures, that could share in, and enjoy His attributes (made in His image).
A Resurrection of his physical body, such as is implied by the empty tomb and by some of the stories in the Gospels of his appearances,
would point towards a docetic Christ who does not fully share the lot of men; unless, indeed, bodily corruption were to be regarded as being bound up with the sinfulness of man which Christ did not share (but, unless we accept an impossibly literalistic interpretation of Genesis 3 as factual history, it is impossible to hold that physical dissolution is not part of the
Creator's original and constant intention for his
creatures in this world).
In religious terms, God, according to group two, is not just the
creator opposed to the
creatures, nor is he just another
creature, but he is the
creator - with - the -
creatures, his reality is not in all respects as it
would be did the
creatures not exist...
Naturally it is possible for the
Creator to
have made
creatures who are invariably good, healthy, kind and virtuous.
Isolated from both the natural and the transcendent realms, the human
creature has become its own
creator, an autonomous consciousness existing for itself, despite the fact that in our own time the human consciousness
has become a solitary subjectivity progressively dissolving itself.
I really don't think a «Grand
Creator»
would willfully impose that type of existence on innocent
creatures... not to mention the religions that
have preyed on the innocent members of our own species and still do while pretending to be «of god».
When Jenson says that God is «pres ent to
creatures in their space» he is actually in agreement with Newton's doctrine of God and space, though he earlier accused Newton (wrongly) of
having «blurred the line between
Creator and creation.»
If all these
creatures belonged here and
had distinct purpose, there must be a
Creator.
Long before Bacon, Jaki
has written, Christian philosophy
had steadily inculcated «the conviction... that since the world was rational it could be comprehended by the human mind, but as the product of the
Creator it could not be derived from the mind of man, a
creature.»
The
Creator has input the undeniable recognition of God in every
creature.
The intended communion between the
Creator and his
creatures has been interrupted by disobedience, he argues.
There is an infinite, qualitative difference between the
Creator and his
creatures and only God can re-establish a relationship that
has been disrupted by human sin.
The sharp distinction between the one
Creator and the many
creatures has faded.
By means of this distinction, one can argue that, although the primary sense of a term with respect to how it means is the sense it
has as applied to a
creature, or ordinary individual, the primary sense of the term with respect to what is meant by it is the sense it
has as applied to the
Creator, or eminent individual.
I was heartened to read James Tolhurst's article on «The Nature of Heresy» (July 2009) and only wished he
had expounded further at length and also got right back to first principles quoting St. Augustine of Hippo and the great St. Paul that the inimical core of all heresy is: «worshipping the
creature rather than the
Creator.»
The city of God loves God above all that he
has created, while the city of this world loves the
creature rather than the
creator.
Given His onto - logical primacy, in his uncreated Personality and his created body and soul, it
would be il - logical, in the deepest sense of the term (i.e. contrary to the Logos), if the conception of the
Creator's human nature were subject to that creaturely power of co-creation by which new
creatures are brought into being, for this is a fundamental aspect of human procreation.
Common sense says the «true
creator»
has respect for his
creatures.
God the
Creator had chosen to live as a
creature.
This terrible gap which
has been opened up between the
Creator and his
creatures must be bridged.
«In studying nature we
have not to inquire how God the
Creator may, as He freely wills, use His
creatures to work miracles and thereby show forth His power; we
have rather to inquire what Nature with its immanent causes can naturally bring to pass.»
John tells us that this same creative Word which was with God from the beginning, and was indeed basic to God's nature,
has now become a
creature, a specific human being, so that we are able to see the
Creator in a form of his creation.
In this otherwise vast and possibly empty series of silent galaxies, the
Creator made humans in order to
have at least one
creature able freely to respond to Him - either with love or not.
What
would happen if you changed your story and believed, actually believed, that your
creator LOVED all human
creatures?
In Christ Jesus, marriage serves as a redemptive sign that the great chasm separating
creature from
Creator has been bridged, and the original unity intended by God
has been restored, both among us and between humanity and its
Creator.
Here is God in the form of a man allowing himself to be tried, condemned, and put to death by sinners, his own
creatures who
have rebelled against their
creator.
For first we offer the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving; then next we plead and represent before the Father the sacrifice of the cross, and by it we confidently entreat remission of sins and all other benefits of the Lord's Passion for the whole Church; and lastly we offer the sacrifice of ourselves to the
Creator of all things which we
have already signified by the oblations of his
creatures.
Neoclassical theism answers that to be a
creature at all is to be a
creator on the nondivine level.23 So if God
has creatures, their self - determinations will always add definiteness to the range of potentiality furnished by their causal conditions.
We simply do not know what
creatures may exist elsewhere, and therefore we can not begin even to guess at other kinds of revelation which the
Creator may
have given, or may plan to give, in other parts of his apparently limitless creation.
This June, gamers were given their first taste of the title with the Spore
Creature Creator, a marketing tool / hype builder that
has yielded more than 3.2 million user - created and uploaded life - forms to date.
The gothic actioner, coming for the
creator of UNDERWORLD, sees the Mary Shelley - created «
creature» Adam Frankenstein (played by Aaron Eckhart),
having survived to present day due to a genetic quirk in his electrifying creation but finds himself caught in a centuries old war between two immortal clans.
After many years of development, countless Game of the Show - type awards, big promises and even the release of a massive teaser in the form of
Creature Creator, Spore
has finally gone gold.
Even just releasing the APB fashion design tools as a standalone application akin to the Spore
creature creator would be a great start, although I doubt this will ever happen.
They
have added an expert sphere grid, Dark Aeons and Penance, Final Fantasy X eternal calm CG, Psychic and Festivalist dress spheres and even your own
creature creator.
Comic - Con: Will Wright On «Your Fans Entertaining You More Than You're Entertaining Them» «Talking at a special Comic - Con presentation of Spore attended by Gamasutra, Maxis» Will Wright
has been discussing the success of the
Creature Creator for the game, quipping: «At some point, your fans are entertaining you more than you're entertaining them.»»
Boasting a strange array of weird and wonderfully creepy
creatures to point your post-apocalyptic weapons at, it is evident that
creator Stephen Hövelbrinks
has worked tirelessly to produce such an original title.
Since she arrived on the scene, in a 1980 exhibition, when she was in her mid-twenties, she
has come before her own camera in the guise of hundreds of characters, and as an impersonator — which in her case means being a
creator of people, and sometimes people - like
creatures, who we encounter only in a single photograph — she
has been remarkably inventive.
While we're not expecting a handheld seafaring
creature to be attacking our heroes in this season's upgrade, the
creators of this game
have promised an addition «never seen in street fighter before.»