Sentences with phrase «like deity»

Mr. Stella does confess to admiring at least one midcareer artist, Kara Walker, whose monumental sculpture of a sphinx - like deity was displayed to great acclaim in a former sugar factory in Brooklyn last year.

This particular game has players becoming a god - like deity who will be will be shaping their kingdom and lands.

Faron the Water Dragon is a large, blue reptile - like deity who resides in the Faron area in Skyward Sword.

The Owner looked and spoke like a deity.

Why murder him / her, of course, just like your deity would.

I like my deities to have at least the appearance of perfection.

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.

Not exact matches

Obtaining a relationship with a deity is not like an athletic goal.

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).

I like cake, fred, why doesn't your deity like people?

Remeber your deity has a name (God is germanic and of the 6th century) Prior to that name used like Jehovaj, Hasheim..

Like Sagan, Dawkins, and Tyson I identified myself to an Atheist as an Agnostic Atheist even though I believe a possibility of a «theory of deity» based upon evidence is infinitesimally small.

Ignoring runaway processes like cancers, and diseases that waste tissue and muscle, let's focus on the DESIGN of that which is created in the perfect deity's «image and likeness».

In the end all you are doing is just relying on your own belief because even though there is no proof that that there actually is no deity who does not want to be made known but would rather have us develop our faith in said deity, since there is thus far no irrefutable proof that there is such a deity, that you then come to a conclusion that there is no such deity, all you are doing is just relying on belief just like I'm relying on belief and that what it really boils down to is just that it is all a matter of belief.

Sounds like a reasonable, merciful deity.

I'd love to see a sports figure at the end of a horrible game say something along the lines of «well, you know, my deity saw fit to make me look like I've never played this game before.

The sneaky dude went back in time and made it look like all those evil pagan deities did the same things as jazus, just to fool everyone.

In brief, it said that we CA N'T know for sure that gods like the Greek, Roman, Norse, Egyptian, Hindu, and American Indian deities don't exist, because they're merely exaggerated human beings.

Let's face it, any of you people who believe in ANY mystical deity - like figure are smoking something.

And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.

It is interesting to see how nonbelievers are so quick to define what believers opinions are on issues like creationism, evolution, a deity, etc..

And I'd like to be a fly on the wall when you're standing before him trying to explain why you worshipped the wrong deity your whole life.

Until the current deity of choice (The God of Abraham) actually shows himself, I for one will not accept the talking snakes, virgin births, and condemnation of personal freedoms that surround the belief in him — like stoning someone for working on the sabbath, or killing children who curse their parents, or the rules of owning slaves, all concepts clearly stated in the Old Testament.

I feel persecuted when you compare my deity, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, to an imaginary being like Santa Clause.

I believe there might be a deity who created the universe and set everything including evolution in motion, but I fear that deity doesn't have anything to do with what happens on earth, nor does he care, and that we are just like a bunch of ants to him.

While for him, as for Whitehead, the Spinozist option remains overly monistic (in one way or another, Spinozism must be «pluralized»), it is nevertheless possible to discern, in provisional outline, what a «Deleuzean» deity would look like on a monotheistic model.

However, you might have a lot of Christians that will be after you who like to create a «separate» and «apart» Deity that they can give powers and attributes to, to suit their purposes.

Not the «core fundamentals» like the Trinity, the inerrancy of Scripture, the deity of Jesus, and justification by faith alone in Christ alone.

India can advance, not by borrowings from abroad nor through foreign direct investments - an economic boloney spread by the New Economic Policy - and never by worshipping the Fund - Bank or other Bretton Woods deities or MNCs who stride the world like colossi.

(Numbers 27:21) When one endeavors, therefore, to reconstruct in imagination the religious life and practice of the early Hebrews, one must visualize them as presenting to their deity questions capable of a yes or no reply and then as casting lots with a cry like Saul's, «Show the right,» and as accepting the arbitrament of the dice as the revealed will of the Lord.

She's a lot like me in that she has a very personal relationship with deity.

God is not like some pagan deity whose default attitude toward us is anger and vengeful wrath.

Hindus are encouraged to relate to God in the way that suits them best, like worshipping many deities who are believed to be manifestations of God.

How do you know what an all knowing deity thinks like?

An omnipotent deity runs eternity like a tyrannical dictator.

The first is that you portray your deity, the one you voted for as the thing you'd like most to spend eternity, as nothing more than a murderer.

If a particular deity, like the God of Israel, says, «Only build one place of worship» then this God wants it to be difficult for His people to come worship Him.

I like how all those tales and stories are false... unless they are tales and stories about your personal brand of deity.

My concern, Rainer, is that the affection and defense of this literary deity is beginning to look a great deal like what modern psychologist refer to as the Stockholm Syndrome.

Like lying about others because they don't buy into your nasty, angry, jealous deity and his book of nonsense?

It's not the belief in a deity that's usually the problem, it's the following the dogma of the Abrahamic religions and those followers who persecute those not like them.

It continues: «The names of the Deities that were born next from a thing that sprouted up like unto a reed - shoot when the earth, young and like unto floating oil, drifted about medusa - like, were the Pleasant - Reed - Shoot - Prince - Elder - Deity, next the Heavenly - Eternally - Standing - Deity.

Imagine if all the billions of dollars in time, effort and hard cash that we spend worldwide each year worshipping and appeasing make - believe deities of one kind or another were instead funneled into something tangible and worthwhile, like reducing poverty, improving education or protecting the environment.

Everybody is walking around trying not to spoil their «soul contracts», so the deity of their liking will give them paradise in the afterlife.

However, based on statements like «Christ did not rise from the dead and was most likely eaten by dogs,» you kind of get the idea that this guy doesn't believe in the deity of Christ.

We may well chortle at Coyle's belief that God actually urges faithful dieters to abstain from fattening treats, or at Shamblin's insistence that the deity «is too smart to let somebody like Weight Watchers or Jane Fonda be your savior and get all the credit» and so «will not let other diets work.»

Like the concept of the Chosen People, election has often been regarded as an objectionable idea because it makes the deity seem arbitrary and unjust to many.

There can be no question that Yahweh, like other tribal deities was understood in some of these scriptures as a warrior God.

The cosmic enterprise is like a great adventure, in which deity moves out towards the creatures — not as if it were only an incidental or accidental act of God, but because God by very necessity of the divine nature itself is constantly outgoing, self - identifying, receptive, and responsive.

They worship the biblical deity like an Auschwitz guard follows orders, i.e. out a twisted mix of fear and a false sense of empowerment in a-sserting their (magical, spiritual) superiority.