Sentences with phrase «new deity»

The age - old setup of god vs. the devil is shaken up soon into the story when a new deity appears, vying to save humanity in one way or another.

Since Darwin, we turn to a single, singular force, Natural Selection, which we might as well capitalize as though it were the new deity.

Rather, «all the people that were in the camp trembled» (Exodus 19:16) and, far from desiring intimate fellowship with their new deity, «they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.»

Having found the God of liberal Protestantism implausible or boring, American liberal elites discovered a new deity, the worship of which involved a drastic transformation of nearly every sector of American life by the new liberalism's favorite instrument of salvation, the state.

David Lutz senses that «a battle for the soul is being waged at Notre Dame» and traces the devolution to the new deity, Academic Freedom.

The Rev. Dr. Caldwell in his work on the Devil - worship of the Shanar, has shown how continuously the people of India are making new deities or demons.»

Its protagonist, Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle), is an ex-con who becomes bodyguard and traveling partner to Mr. Wednesday (Ian McShane), a conman who in reality is one of the older gods, on a cross-country mission to gather his forces in preparation to battle the new deities.

Both Cosmos and Chaos are gone, but in their place a new world appears with two new deities in conflict.

Not exact matches

On Sunday, he arose, «as the solar deity for the new season.»

The relationship between God and man, with which theology (Jewish or Christian) is primarily concerned, could now only be postulated if it contributed to the elaboration of ethical theory Moreover, the only divine - human relationship that this new anthropocentrism would tolerate was between a postulated deity and the human individual.

there must be a deity school up there in the magical next dimension where new gods are taught their standard miracle ABC's.

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.

Old Testament = Judiasm, add New Testament = Christian, add Koran = Islam but add Book of Mormon and it's Mormonism with a whole different view of the very nature of Deity.

The authors of the books accepted as part of the new testament never had Christ deny his deity.

The Roman Empire had tried every other way to stop the spread of this new religion which threatened the «deity» of their Caesar and their Caesar's claim to ultimate authority.

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.

The very form of Christianity's original apocalyptic proclamation rests upon an expectation that the actualization of the Kingdom of God will make present not the almighty Creator, Lawgiver, and Judge, but rather a wholly new epiphany of the deity, an epiphany annihilating all that distance separating the creature from the Creator.

actually you do nt have to prove the many deities or Gods that they really exist, because they really had existed in their times, They are part of the evolutionary process for us humans to transcend to higher consciousness.To simplify the analogy, when we were young and we are in the lower grade school, we were taught simple subjects not advance literatures but simple stories even mythicals, The same with religion, thousands of years ago when there was no science yet, primitive people had a religion, of course man made faiths to conform with their state of mind or intellect.But later atfter thousands of years we evolve into a more educated people and so new concept of God again was presented to them, another man made concept, and this go on and on, until a few thiousand years ago.monotheism, Judaism, christianity, islam, buddhism, etc also evolved, But with the accelerated evolution, these faith again is threatend with obsolesencs because of of scientific developments and education.In panthroteistic faith, the future religion needs to conform to evolutionary process, This proves that God is always there guiding the change.And it his will that made this a reality in history since the begining of the universe 13 billion years ago, and this will continue to exist until He will completely fulfill His will to infinity, Thats PANTHROTHEISM, the futue, man made religion under His guidance through scientifiic evoluition after the Bi Bang

Human temporality therefore tries to divine what the future may bring; it takes the whole of itself (past, present and its future) and puts its whole destiny in an Absolute (ideology, deity, even the self) in the hope and belief that it may be reborn to a new space - time dimension, the eschatological, and thus possess the fullness of time.

The recognition of these problems is not new although Hartshorne's work on the concept of God has made important contributions to our understanding of them, not least by suggesting ways in which they can be avoided without detriment to the true deity of God.

Another possibility is to attribute a shift in personality to the deity: from wrathful to merciful, in line with the division between the Old and New Testaments.

Is this, then, the persuasive power of deity in the sense that reason is informed by new desire and imagination?

For negative deities, new descriptions, euphemisms, etc. are generated, only to fall into disuse, when they become too popular, or well - known.

Of course, it is debatable as to how much control the deity of process theism has over the fountainhead of new desires and wants.

A Nair reported to the missionaries that after the arrival of Christianity among the Pulayas the «evil spirits were obliged to run away from the places» and there was «scarcely any instance of demonical possession» among them.49 Some of the priests of the Pulayas who converted to Christianity demolished the images of their deities in the presence of the missionaries, thereby suggesting belief in the power of the new God which they had found in Christianity.

[In thousands (175,440 represents 175,440,000)--------- Total Christian --------- 173,402 Catholic --------- 57,199 Baptist --------- 36,148 Protestant - no denomination supplied --------- 5,187 Methodist / Wesleyan --------- 11,366 Lutheran --------- 8,674 Christian - no denomination supplied --------- 16,834 Presbyterian --------- 4,723 Pentecostal / Charismatic --------- 5,416 Episcopalian / Anglican --------- 2,405 Mormon / Latter - Day Saints --------- 3,158 Churches of Christ --------- 1,921 Jehovah's Witness --------- 1,914 Seventh - Day Adventist --------- 938 Assemblies of God --------- 810 Holiness / Holy --------- 352 Congregational / United Church of Christ --------- 736 Church of the Nazarene --------- 358 Church of God --------- 663 Orthodox (Eastern)--------- 824 Evangelical / Born Again \ 2 --------- 2,154 Mennonite --------- 438 Christian Science --------- 339 Church of the Brethren --------- 231 Nondenominational \ 2 --------- 8,032 Disciples of Christ --------- 263 Reformed / Dutch Reform --------- 206 Apostolic / New Apostolic --------- 970 Quaker --------- 130 Full Gospel --------- 67 Christian Reform --------- 381 Foursquare Gospel --------- 116 Fundamentalist \ 2 --------- 69 Salvation Army --------- 70 Independent Christian Church --------- 86 --------- Total other religions --------- 8,796 Jewish --------- 2,680 Muslim --------- 1,349 Buddhist --------- 1,189 Unitarian / Universalist --------- 586 Hindu --------- 582 Native American --------- 186 Scientologist --------- 25 Baha'I --------- 49 Taoist --------- 56 New Age --------- 15 Eckankar --------- 30 Rastafarian --------- 56 Sikh --------- 78 Wiccan --------- 342 Deity --------- 32 Druid --------- 29 Santeria --------- 3 Pagan --------- 340 Spiritualist --------- 426 Other unclassified --------- 735 --------- No religion specified, total --------- 34,169 Atheist --------- 1,621 Agnostic --------- 1,985 Humanist --------- 90 Secular --------- 34 Ethical Culture --------- 11 No religion --------- 30,427 --------- Refused to reply to question --------- 11,815

No doubt the church has been right in acknowledging the deity of Christ and the Incarnation as the fullest measure of the divine revelation of which human nature is capable; though it should be pointed out that the church as a rule undertook to stand fast and to hold the ground of the traditional, historical faith, enshrined in the New Testament, and — as the histories of dogma make clear - only took over metaphysical definitions which had already been hammered out on the anvils of logical and exegetical disputation.

Their presence among carvings of Buddha and Indian deities is meant to serve as a reminder of Pakistan's oft - forgotten multicultural roots, which form the basis of a new exhibit, «The Buddhist Heritage of Pakistan: Art of Gandhara.»

In this scheme the quantifiers «all,» «some,» and «none» are combined with the ideas of «absolute perfection,» «relative perfection,» and «imperfection'to produce seven different conceptions of deity which are conveniently grouped into three broad types of theism: classical theism, within which God is conceived as absolutely perfect in all respects and in no way surpassable; atheistic views, in which there is no being which is in any respect perfect or unsurpassable; and the «new theism,» in which God is in some respects perfect and unsurpassable by others but is surpassable by himself.

It could be any deity of Hindu - ism, Buddhism, Greek mythology, or New Age channeled entities.

It has even become a new «god» or «deity.»

A man who is utterly self - contained and whose chief ambition is to be «self - existent» and hence to exist without dependence upon relationships of any sort, is a man whom we regard as an unpleasant if not vicious specimen of the race; and it is odd that deity has been regarded, and this even in Christian circles, as more like such a self - contained human being rather than as like a man who in every area of his life is open to relationships and whose very existence is rich in the possibility of endless adaptations to new circumstances.

There are also new and enhancing opportunities (line D2) provided for deity, which he employs in his continuous activity of bringing possibility (left point of the horizontal line) into actuality (along line A).

(See Daniel Day Williams, «Deity, Monarchy, and Metaphysics,» Ivor Leclerc, ed., The Relevance of Whitehead (London: George Allen & Unwin; New York: Macmillan, 1961), p. 368.)

Astrological religions equate this deity with Capricorn, which is the sign of the zodiac that indicates winter solstice, the death of the previous year and the rebirth of the new year.

The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, who, more than any other New Testament author, emphasizes the full deity (1:10) but also the full humanity of Jesus, goes still farther than the reports of the three Synoptists in his description of Jesus» fear of death.

Actually yes, since according to christian dogma / mythical lore the deity of the new testament is the same deity of the old testament at the same time.

Just because science can say «hey, we found a new way of doing things», that is not your cue to jump in say «oh, oh, see it has to be a deity.»

This, however, does not affect the crucial fact, from which the subsequent development of Israel's religion proceeds, that the distinctive faith of the Hebrews began with the covenant between them and a deity new to their allegiance.

He used no new words concerning deity.

Nor does the New Testament leave in doubt the nature of this innovation in the Christian thought of deity — «It is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.»

The tribal deity of the Kenites took a new people as his own and a confederation of clans that never before had served Yahweh swore fealty to him as their divinity.

Some, therefore, think that this god to whom Moses introduced the tribes from Egypt while new to them as their tribal deity, was not a stranger in the traditions of their race.

On the contrary, it means that those events and occasions have so much entered into and so much become part of Deity in his consequent aspect — providing new possibilities for relationship, new opportunities for creative advance, new chances for the bringing into actuality of genuine and richer good --- that they are in some deep and real sense integral to the divine life itself.

To be sure, Yahweh was not a new god; at least the Kenites had been acquainted with him; the Judean Document, which scholars call «J,» in its final form holds that the fathers had known him, and he may have been a deity of the tribe of Judah.

I have 14 instances marked, that are either statements by the author or quotes from GES members, where this issue is specified very clearly as being what is essential for the lost to believe for salvation — NOT whether you believe the message of the cross and Christ's deity - humanity are part of general New Testament revelation.

(The dove, a visible sign of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament accounts of Jesus» baptism, was a bird often linked to female deities in the ancient Near East.)

No matter: a wholly new point, «The Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ,» would be added.

Mammon performs the first physicalist reduction, designed specifically to exclude any recognition of deity and spirit, when he resolves to build a new heaven from the raw materials of hell, a resolution that makes sense to him because his conception of heaven is so relentlessly material: «what can Heaven show more?»

Whereas the second Quest demythologized the apocalyptic eschatology that informed Jesus» message of the kingdom in such a way that the kingdom remained God's initiative and gift eliciting a new ethos, thereby respecting the biblical - Jewish roots of Jesus» word and deed, the Borg - Crossan construal tacitly posits an inert deity who at best provides a formal warrant for a class - based cultural criticism and who apparently has allowed the covenant - commitment to Israel to lapse, for there remains neither promise nonfulfillment.