Sentences with phrase «with deity»

-- Reinhold Niebuhr (incidentally, «God» can be removed from this and replaced with the deity of your choosing, or with yourself, if you don't believe in a deity).

Call something «too complex» and explain it with a deity doing its thing.

Spiritual: Bargaining with a deity to prevent loss, feeling angry at ones deity when a loss occurs, renewed or shaken religious belief, feelings of being blessed or punished, searching for a meaningful explanation of a loved ones death, visions or dreams concerning a dead loved one, questioning whether or not souls exist, finding a purposeful way to say goodbye (funeral, memorial service, goodbye service)

Everyone believes they are right and holds the correct immortality formula, some with deity's, some without, some with faith?

Chronicles of Mercury sightings show up in Mesopotamia (November 15 in 265 B.C.) and China (June 9 in A.D. 118), and linguistic evidence in Germanic languages links the planet with the deity Woden, also known in Scandinavian languages as Odin.

Maybe the Dark Prince thinks this will curry favor with a deity if there is one.

His intensely private and practical conception of his relations with the Deity continued the traditions of the most primitive human thought.

The tragic hero does not enter into any private relationship with the deity, but for him the ethical is the divine, hence the paradox implied in his situation can be mediated in the universal.

For some reason, it's always some Shaman who claims to have had direct contact with the deity who communicates The Word, which then passed down through the generations in a game of Chinese whispers.

We are trying to live with a deity designed for desert nomads 2000 + years ago.

Not only do televangelists appeal to people's need to identify with the deity and the divine plan, but they skillfully identify and appeal to almost every need on the list.

On balance, the most likely view seems to be that bara» simply means «to build» or «construct,» but that it came into the Hebrew as part of the sacral vocabulary of priestly circles and may already at its importation have had by convention an exclusive link with the deity.

«For my own part, I believe that all are impostors who pretend to hold verbal communication with the Deity.

Dalit cult had both men and women as priests and priestess to mediate with the Deity and to officiate at the sacrifices.

As they rise to a higher conception of deity, their praying will be more spiritual, purer, less concerned with the temporal goods that communion with deity may be thought to provide.

Do you really, honestly, believe that Hindus have a lesser relationship with their deity than you do?

To an atheist, war = murder (with no deity to «justify» it).

A man could become agonized and tortured and frustrated and defeated when he allowed himself to think of the sinner's attempt to satisfy the sinless One, of humanity's hopeless struggle to set itself right with deity.

It does not mean anything if the master is right or wrong with his his deity.

You may not WANT it to be this way, simply because it labels athiest in the same manner as thiests, but that's not going to change the fact that an athiest has a BELIEF about something dealing with a deity just as much as a Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, etc. has a BELIEF about something dealing with a deity.

but a girl scout cookie has nothing to do with a deity, which belief of (or not) is the prime compenent of..

It's a belief dealing with a deity... whether or not it deals with the existence or non existence of one.

The Romans stole their Gods from the Greeks, who I believe were the first advance culture to come up with deity nonsense to explain the «complex» environment around them.

Instead of identifying the account either with a theory or even with a metaphysical or cosmological principle, however, he identifies it with a deity, and not just a «god» but with God, an ultimate, intrinsically personal creator, sustainer and provider of the universe.

Hartshorne also rejects personal immortality because «Immortality is a divine trait...» and»... immortality puts us in rivalry with deity in one respect... «27 God is not the means to our ultimate fulfillment (contra Kant and John Hick), but rather our fulfillment is a means to God's ultimate fulfilment.

What I care about: policies, not one's personal relationship with a deity (again, or lack thereof).

Just because we can't always predict and control them doesn't mean they have anything to do with a deity.

Therefore, «to decide which space - time system God utilizes... would grant to that system... a unique relationship with deity, a relationship discriminatory against other events and their space - time systems.»

The biblical condemnation of idolatry was because a physical depiction of deity could easily be too closely identified with the deity itself.

I am not here asking about the fathomless profundities of man's communion with the Deity, but about what anyone may observe when Christians are engaged in worship.

The preaching of the gospel has precisely the same purpose: the bringing of men and women into an abiding communion with deity and with one another, here and always.

This author tries to depict «God» as someone who needs to be understood, again Christians (or religious people in general for that matter) trying to find any way possible to connect other humans with their deity of choice.

Whatever suffering means in God, it is for him consonant with his deity and with the integrity of the divine spirit.

It is in the integrity of a full humanity, and in every range of it, that God's action is to be found — God energizes in this man, in his total and genuine personhood, not in some special part of that personhood or by replacing with deity some particular area of human nature.

Or does the idea of good and evil only exsist with a deity component?

Again with the deity thing, You have no deity in your camp, i get that, so tell me how you respond to awful natural events or people?

Yahweh demands of Joseph no sacrifice (Abraham — 22) There is no face - to - face - ness (18) and certainly no wrestling with the deity (Jacob — 32) There is no tension in Joseph himself between faith and unfaith (Abraham), or between his own sinfulness and the grace of God (Jacob) Rather, insofar as these tensions appear, it is Joseph's brothers who reflect them.

Why is the corresponding point in the Jacob cycle the story of the patriarch's violent, night - long wrestling bout with the deity, and his refusal to surrender even to the very end of the struggle (32:22 - 30)?

Humanity is through with deity worship.

I find that Paganism better reflects my own worldview (gender balanced, earth is sacred, direct pathway for communion with deity), but I don't think it's necessarily superior to anything else.

When, therefore, we find them also possessing sacraments, fairly magical in their efficacy — especially baptisms, whether of water or of blood, and sacred meals that conferred union with the deity — the query inevitably rises in how far in these regards they influenced Christianity.

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

Would you say it's common for Wiccans to have a «personal» relationship with their god (s) similar to how Christians think of Jesus, or is that not how pagans generally view their association with a deity?

As a spiritual person, I'm looking to connect with deity.

I practice Wicca (one of several Modern Paganisms), and Wicca's ritual framework allows me to have that experience with deity that I often felt was missing as a Christian.

Unio mystica, that state in which the mystic is absorbed into union with the deity, is quite alien to Israel.

I am weaning myself off a relationship with a deity that only talks to me sometimes, helps me only when I'm perfect, sinless or contrite about my sisns, reminds me that I am originally defiled and sinful and should be really happy for his love - as I am not unconditionally deserving of it.

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).

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

That the atheists are right, and it is all just a natural process with no deities or supernatural events, and death in nothing but an end.