has led us to the conclusion, so far, that art is not a free, autonomous activity of a super-endowed individual, «influenced» by previous artists, and, more vaguely and superficially, by «social forces,» but rather, that the total situation of art making, both in terms of the development of the art maker and in the nature and quality of the work of art itself, occur in a social situation, are integral elements of this social structure, and are mediated and determined by specific and definable social institutions, be they art academies, systems of patronage, mythologies
of the divine creator, artist as he - man or social outcast.
Anyway, Primordia is an old - school point and click adventure game that imagines such a scenario, wherein robots of various levels of technological sophistication exist in a post-human society where man takes the role
of divine creator whose existence is disputed.
Tell you what, you provide a single shred of positive evidence
of some divine creator, let alone a divine creator that follows the contradictory and judgemental christian doctrine, and we can talk.
All too naturally a religious Christianity has known the most awesome and terrifying form
of the divine Creator and Judge, for a religious reversal of the Incarnation must resurrect the deity in the form of an absolutely majestic and sovereign power, a power that has now lost its ground in the kenotic movement of the divine process.
The world becomes a revelation of the divine wisdom, and Nature is a unity in the sense that it exhibits the wisdom
of its divine Creator and Upholder.
Indeed, in the image
of the divine Creator, we add to the natural hierarchy of unities through our intelligent engagement with our environment — not least by our creation of artefacts.
Not exact matches
I really get a good laugh from people like this who try to discredit the faith
of those who CHOOSE to believe in God and in a
divine creator.
That is your first mistake because you can not provide me with a reasonable explanation for a
divine creators existence) and the fact that we exist is not anymore a reason for the proof
of the existence
of an anthropomorphic god than it proves the existence
of, in Richard Dawkins terms, the flying spaghetti monste.
[16] It may seem as if we are now relying on
divine Revelation, but in speaking
of God as the
creator of human persons, we remain within the purview
of the natural law.
Rather, the two would come together in a cosmocentric, immanental model
of transcendence: God the
creator of the evolving, incredibly vast and complex universe understood as the
divine «body.»
Wonder and awe before the majesty
of the
Creator, answering a high call to service, being transformed by a Power greater than our own, being aware
of a Presence in whose fellowship we find our strength, being reinforced by the
divine help so that we triumph over trouble, opening our lives to inspired hours when the best seems the most real — all these are responses to revelations
of reality above and beyond ourselves, but nowhere is such revelation so compelling as when it comes incarnate in a person.
From this beginning came all that followed, so everything that is is related, woven into a seamless network, with life gradually emerging after billions
of years on this planet (and perhaps on others) and resulting in the incredibly complex, intricate universe we see today.32 To think
of God as the
creator and continuing
creator / sustainer
of this massive, breathtaking cosmic fact dwarfs all our traditional images
of divine transcendence — whether political or metaphysical.
In God, the
Creator - Father, and in Christ, the revelation
of the
divine character, the first Christians fervently believed, but all this became inward and empowering only when the Spirit entered and possessed them.
Discussing at length three biological structures that ID supporters cite as evidence
of «irreducible complexity» (and therefore the need, they say, for
divine intervention), Collins shows how ID remains no more than a modern version
of a «god
of the gaps» hypothesis, which posits a «clumsy
Creator, having to intervene at regular intervals to fix the inadequacies
of His own initial plan for generating the complexity
of life» and therefore completely unsatisfactory.
In order to let the world come into existence, and then to continue to be itself and not just an emanation
of God's own being, an omnipotent
Creator would somehow have to restrain or «rein in» the
divine presence and power.
These words are addressed to Jesus, and we must not fail to notice that the transcendent
Creator and Judge can be identified as the ultimate ground
of selfhood only at the moment when an immanent and totally human Jesus can be named as the
divine Creator and Redeemer!
Odd's that said carpenter was the
divine seed
of the
creator of the universe magicly implanted in a human?
In a commingling
of Creator and creation, he says that God is actually «immanent» and it is thus correct to say that the earth is «
divine.»
This is where we gain our knowledge
of God as
Creator and Ruler
of the world; our concept
of him as loving Judge and Redeemer
of men; our belief that Jesus Christ is his Son and our Lord and Savior; and the idea that the Holy Spirit is our ever - present Guide and
divine Companion.
But on occasion he uses much stronger language: the property he is describing «requires a
divine foundation» (emphasis added); it «provides new strength for the arguments that point to a
Creator»; it «clearly suggests the existence
of a
divine source
of power and perfection.»
Not what u see on CNN, not what your mum said nor your pastor or priest said and not what u see some Muslims neighbors
of yours do... noooo nay,,, what have u searched your self... i dare u do... find the true, i swear nothing makes any sense as Islam does, those guys know the whole truth... even if it will hurt, just like Santa - clause when u 12 year or the rats that gives money to the de toothing kid in our Ugandan myth, u deserve to know the truth... and if no scientist has come out and disproved the
divine origin
of this universe logically then there must be a mighty some one behind it and that
Creator or whatever it is, HE has a way, a straight path to Him and we are obliged to know it... so my adverse to u is look hard for the true coz it is clear from false, even if u may hate it!!
Hence, let us return to the great love
of our
Creator and his
divine Son Jesus Christ.
Satan is a creature
of God who exists only because
of God's creative activity, and yet, now that Satan exists, he is not simply under the
divine thumb but is engaged in mortal combat with the
creator for the devotion
of human beings.
As (I think) your christological article in the «Call to Covenant Community» assumes, gospel has more to do with the humanity
of God than with the divinity
of Christ; that is, it posits the
divine origins
of Jesus
of Nazareth as the necessary theological presupposition
of its primary testimony to the ultimacy
of the
Creator's world - orientation (John 3:16!).
An actually creating, loving
creator is the only unqualified necessity; all else more specific or particular than this abstract essence is contingent, the play
of divine - creaturely freedom.
Since this
divine individuality can not be gradually introduced into the creative process, that process can not be allowed to progressively culminate in the Christ, but must be seen merely as the material basis for the sudden irruption
of the Logos -
Creator from beyond.
This God was indeed
creator and sovereign ruler, but also the God who would and did communicate the
divine self to humankind, so that they could know God as the loving parent
of those children.
The symbol
of the
divine Son is a way
of pointing to those places, times, and events in which the nature and character
of the transcendent
Creator are disclosed and discovered.
This approach to transcendence is indeed one
of the biggest theological gulfs between Islam and a religion which speaks
of divine self - revelation and
of a creaturely destiny in the life
of the
Creator.
That God the
Creator is disclosed in the
divine drama
of the life, death and resurrection
of Jesus Christ.
Many Gnostic Christians believed that, because
of his
divine origins, Jesus did not suffer on the cross, that the heavens were populated by all sorts
of entities including a lower
Creator God and a superior God
of Light — and that knowledge
of one's ultimate origins from the latter was the key to salvation.
We do not deny or circumscribe the
Creator, because we hold he has created the self - acting originating human mind, which has almost a creative gift; much less then do we deny or circumscribe His power, if we hold that He gave matter such laws as by their blind instrumentality moulded and constructed through innumerable ages the world as we see it... Mr Darwin's theory need not then be atheistical, be it true or not; it may simply be suggesting a larger idea
of Divine Prescience and Skill... At first sight I do not see that «the accidental evolution or organic beings» is inconsistent with
divine design - It is accidental to us, not to God.»
Because such existence is intrinsically intelligible to man and dependent upon human intelligence, by analogy we are enabled to affirm the
divine mind and
Creator of the whole cosmos.
To speak so does, I think, demand a high measure
of participation in its story, and an effort to understand it first in its own terms — to grasp the Old Testament's own fundamental assertion that its story from beginning to end is the account
of the historical action
of God seeking the reconciliation
of man and God, the human and the
divine, the creature and the
Creator.
Thus I should say that if the story
of Jesus» life had been told just as it seemed — and in a sense was — at the time it was occurring, that story would not have been adequately or truly told or that life was a part
of a supremely significant, a
divine event, the event through which God, the
Creator and the Ruler
of all nature as well as the Lord
of history, was entering into man's life with new redemptive power; but that fact was not grasped clearly, if at all, till the event had reached its culmination in the resurrection, the coming
of the Spirit, and the creation
of the community.
The gift
of faith, ordered to
divine truth, moves through hope in
divine omnipotence and compassion, and finds its active rest in the participation in the life
of the
Creator.
The life and ministry
of Christ had been
divine; their own interior experience
of spiritual renewal and sustentation was
divine; their God was no longer a cosmic
creator, father, and king only, but, as well, a revelatory character, «full
of grace and truth,» and an indwelling spiritual presence.
Others said matter was really eternal and the
Creator was only an Artificer, a
divine Shaper
of things which already existed.
Insofar as the word
creator means the source
of determination, it corresponds to the level
of the intelligible, not
of the
divine,
of the one - multiple, not
of the one.
In view
of all that inheres in the first four «words» and in the light
of what is there already affirmed both explicitly and by inference; in consideration
of ancient Eastern modes
of thought and the characteristic psychological identification one always made
of his own life with the life
of immediate and also more distant progenitors; in recognition
of the meaning
of Covenant, together with Israel's faith in God's creation and his continuing exercise
of the powers and prerogatives
of Creator and Sustainer - in acknowledgment
of all this it is apparent that the intention
of the fifth commandment is to establish and perpetuate not merely the parental but by and through the parental the
divine claim upon every life in Israel.
That a
divine being created the world — is not faith in the
Creator, but a theory
of the origin
of the world, which signifies nothing.
Just because a
divine creator isn't entirely out
of the realm
of possibilities doesn't make it likely.
Clearly, there are no real gods, or if there are, they don't really care what people believe — they're fine with holy wars and millions
of people with conflicting supernatural beliefs all certain that their beliefs are the really true magical
divine truth
of the real invisible universe
creator In any case, I'm sure we can both trust that real gods can manage peoples beliefs on their own and don't need you to manipulate others on their behalf.
These words written in this text are filled with the light and love
of creator... if you have read this blog, you have been filled with
divine light.
The importance
of belief in a
divine Creator - Judge lay in the pressure it placed on individuals to conform to what they knew to be right.
Lowe's emphasis on the horror
of the First World War is certainly right also in the case
of Russell, and the difference between him and Whitehead is that Russell was most reluctant to take the further step toward «a God
of love who was not a personal
creator but a
divine factor in the universe, a Harmony that is always present, not overruling but beckoning and preserving» (144).
The Freesh - maker, raw food rapper, and
divine recipe
creator, Jonny Freesh, is letting me giveaway 2 copies
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But few have noted that the idea at the core
of the book, M - theory, is the subject
of an ongoing scientific debate — specifically over the very aspect
of the theory that might scrap the need for a
divine creator.
Such a system, Behe argues, could not have evolved step by step, so it must be the result
of intentional design (presumably, but not explicitly, by a
divine creator).
I first made these
divine energy bites with Mickey, the
creator of the AutoImmune Protocol.