Sentences with phrase &laquo;patron god of&raquo;

Theo Phileo In reality, YHWH was probably the patron god of the Jewish kings who, at the spurring of a few somewhat loony prophets, ruthlessly rooted out worship of all the other traditional gods.

Often called the God of War, he became a deity of popular religion by the early Tang Dynasty (618 — 906 A.D.) and was regarded as a special patron god of the military.

These were their beliefs — There was no organized set of gods; each city - state had its own patrons, temples, and priest - kings.

When God was conceived as caring only for the tribal group, only the tribal group was conceived as worth caring for, while the thought of God as the patron and lover of individuals was inevitably associated with the thought of individuals as clearly visualized centers of value.

I guess that the 8 year old is God's collateral damge, for I can not imagine how many abortions he might have had, bottles of Patron he might have drank, or drugs he slammed to warrant this fate.

Ultimately, this was as much a moral disaster as a financial one, since Rembrandt's Calvinist patrons regarded material wealth as a sign of God's favor, good stewardship of one's assets as an ethical necessity, and bankruptcy as a sin.

Luther's patron and protector, Frederick, was really keen on relics: the Wittenberg church had more than 19,000 of them, displayed along the nine aisles, including vials of milk from the virgin Mary, straw from Jesus» manger, bread from the last supper, a branch of the burning bush from which God spoke to Moses (thankfully no longer alight) and a strand of Jesus» beard.

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Women were honored, and Christians were to outdo one another in honoring one another, refusing to play the shame game because there was now an unlimited amount of honor God would give (thus also modifying the client - patron paradigm of limited good).

They argue that pistis / pisteuo should be understood in the context of the client - patron relationship of the 1st century, turning God into a patron who'll rip eternal life from your hands if you stop believing.

I see God as the Patron, and the issue of talents as an allegorical way of expressing activity for the Kingdom of God using familiar social realities (but in keeping with Mark 4:10 - 12, 24 and Matthew 13:11 - 16, the peasants may have taken it too literally and thus missed the whole point — thinking that the unprofitable servant is the hero when he's really not).

Bruce Malina and other Context Group members take the position that the unprofitable servant is actually the hero of the parable, and that the Master is an exploitive patron, rather than God or Jesus.

Still this may not be invoked as collateral support of the idea of Israel's religious covenant, for the title may mean no more than that this god was patron and guardian of agreements.

The one who is sovereign might for a moment be mistaken for patron, but this God really does not «do windows,» even the windows of the king.

The temple is a visible embodiment of self - assertive ideology by king and priest that makes God a sure patron.

Moses may have trembled, but the king only smiles benignly, without trembling, because the resolve of God to dwell in this place — that is what the liturgy affirms — means that God is present, always present, ally, patron, guarantor, a social functionary.

Standing beside the scale with what appears to be a stylus and a writing pad is Thoth, god of learning and patron of all literature, who is the secretary always present to note the outcome of the judgment.

A second false view is in degenerate modes of civil religion which regard God as a patron and ally of Americanism in all its forms.

Finally, Protestants break with two of Mexico's primary national and cultural symbols, the Virgin of Guadalupe (the patron saint or «mother» of Mexico), who is said to have appeared to a Mexican peasant in the 16th century, and the pre-Hispanic plumed serpent - god, Quetzalcóatl.

The largest number of horns crowned the fifty great gods of the Sumerian pantheon, headed by the primal four: An, the Sky Father; Enlil, his son, god of winds; Enki, patron of wisdom and sweet water; and Ninhursag, «Lady of the Womb»» mother of animals and men, form giver, birth giver, «Midwife of the Gods.&ragods of the Sumerian pantheon, headed by the primal four: An, the Sky Father; Enlil, his son, god of winds; Enki, patron of wisdom and sweet water; and Ninhursag, «Lady of the Womb»» mother of animals and men, form giver, birth giver, «Midwife of the Gods.&raGods.»

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«1 If to be a Christian means to pray to a supreme person who can satisfy the prayers of the devout, or if a Christian is necessarily a supernaturalist who holds that God is a power who brought the world into being out of nothing, then Whitehead was not a Christian or a Christian philosopher, and it is ridiculous to try to make him the patron philosopher of a movement now called «process theology.»