Sentences with phrase «of powerful deities»

Pantheon is a MMORPG that takes place on Terminus, a high fantasy world of powerful deities, valiant heroes, insidious enemies and fantastic creatures.

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.

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And how exactly is a mere mortal supposed ot know the «will» of an all - powerful, all - knowing, immortal, immaterial deity?

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?

I agree with Polka... why would an all powerful deity go through the rigamarole of a flood?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Theists escape responsibility by projecting a part of their will onto an all - powerful deity to whom they must submit.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The entire game is suffused with Old Testament motifs, and it revolves around the idea of a powerful yet caring deity.

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.

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.