Does God Exist?
... existence and the role we are to play in this vast uniWith our capacity and desire for God, we can verse which we did not create. Even more, our concome to certain knowledge of his existence from the science, that persistent inner sense which enjoins us created world. In the world there is an order ...
... existence and the role we are to play in this vast uniWith our capacity and desire for God, we can verse which we did not create. Even more, our concome to certain knowledge of his existence from the science, that persistent inner sense which enjoins us created world. In the world there is an order ...
Views on Reduction
... Keith Ward Christianity, like Judaism, Islam, and most Indian traditions, asserts that space-time is dependent upon a non spatio-temporal reality. This dependence is one of causation through intention – God knows and brings about the cosmos, nontemporally, for a reason. This entails that the natural ...
... Keith Ward Christianity, like Judaism, Islam, and most Indian traditions, asserts that space-time is dependent upon a non spatio-temporal reality. This dependence is one of causation through intention – God knows and brings about the cosmos, nontemporally, for a reason. This entails that the natural ...
Chapter 3: Conceptions of ultimate reality
... creation of the universe God was drawn into temporal relations. ...
... creation of the universe God was drawn into temporal relations. ...
euthyphro
... In stating what would justify a moral claim, we must provide criteria that would lead everyone to the same answer. ...
... In stating what would justify a moral claim, we must provide criteria that would lead everyone to the same answer. ...
My Thanksgiving List 1 Thessalonians 5:18 in everything give thanks
... truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use o ...
... truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use o ...
Hinduism and belief in one God
... cannot initiate creation unless He joins with His Shakti. On the abstract level He is satchitananda. Truth, Consciousness and Bliss. He is the inhabitant of the whole world. There is nothing that is outside of Him or without Him. He exists in the individual being as Atman, the Enjoyer who delights i ...
... cannot initiate creation unless He joins with His Shakti. On the abstract level He is satchitananda. Truth, Consciousness and Bliss. He is the inhabitant of the whole world. There is nothing that is outside of Him or without Him. He exists in the individual being as Atman, the Enjoyer who delights i ...
Dealing with Delay
... When the Word says Abraham did not consider his own body, it doesn’t mean he denied his own body. It means that he did not consider the deadness of his own body, or his wife’s body, as the final answer. He saw what God saw more vividly than he saw what the devil saw. The devil is a liar. Abraham con ...
... When the Word says Abraham did not consider his own body, it doesn’t mean he denied his own body. It means that he did not consider the deadness of his own body, or his wife’s body, as the final answer. He saw what God saw more vividly than he saw what the devil saw. The devil is a liar. Abraham con ...
hindu pantheon
... Early Vedic gods, like the gods of the Greek or Celtic pantheon, represent natural forces. In the Rig Veda, the oldest Vedic religious text, thirty-three deities are mentioned, eleven gods of the sky, eleven gods of the earth and eleven gods of water. Several of them (Indra, Varuna, Vishnu) are said ...
... Early Vedic gods, like the gods of the Greek or Celtic pantheon, represent natural forces. In the Rig Veda, the oldest Vedic religious text, thirty-three deities are mentioned, eleven gods of the sky, eleven gods of the earth and eleven gods of water. Several of them (Indra, Varuna, Vishnu) are said ...
Lesson 2: Life in Ancient Egypt
... • Amon-Ra—god of the sun; chief god • Osiris—god of the dead; ruler of the underworld; husband of Isis • Thoth—god of learning • Bast—goddess of cats • Set—god of chaos, evil, deserts, and storms • Horus—god of the sky AND war • Hathor—goddess of love • Isis—goddess of magic, marriage, healing, AND ...
... • Amon-Ra—god of the sun; chief god • Osiris—god of the dead; ruler of the underworld; husband of Isis • Thoth—god of learning • Bast—goddess of cats • Set—god of chaos, evil, deserts, and storms • Horus—god of the sky AND war • Hathor—goddess of love • Isis—goddess of magic, marriage, healing, AND ...
Wiccan views of divinity
Wiccan views of divinity are generally theistic, and revolve around a Goddess and a Horned God, thereby being generally dualistic. In traditional Wicca, as expressed in the writings of Gerald Gardner and Doreen Valiente, the emphasis is on the theme of divine gender polarity, and the God and Goddess are regarded as equal and opposite divine cosmic forces. In some newer forms of Wicca, such as feminist or Dianic Wicca, the Goddess is given primacy or even exclusivity. In some forms of Traditional Witchcraft that share a similar duotheistic theology, the Horned God is given precedence over the Goddess. Some Wiccans are polytheists, believing in many different deities taken from various 'pagan' pantheons, while others would believe that, in the words of Dion Fortune, ""all the Goddesses are one Goddess, and all the Gods one God"". Some Wiccans are both duotheistic and polytheistic, in that they honor diverse pagan deities while reserving their worship for the Wiccan Goddess and Horned God, whom they regard as the supreme deities. (This approach is not dissimilar to ancient pagan pantheons where one divine couple, a god and goddess, were seen as the supreme deities of an entire pantheon.) Some see divinity as having a real, external existence; others see the Goddesses and Gods as archetypes or thoughtforms within the collective consciousness.According to several 20th century witches, most notably Gerald Gardner, the ""father of Wicca"", the witches' God and Goddess are the ancient gods of the British Isles: a Horned God of hunting, death and magic who rules over an after-world paradise (often referred to as the Summerland), and a goddess, the Great Mother (who is simultaneously the Eternal Virgin and the Primordial Enchantress), who gives regeneration and rebirth to souls of the dead and love to the living. The Goddess is especially connected to the Moon and stars and the sea, while the Horned God is connected to the Sun and the forests. Gardner explains that these are the tribal gods of the witches, just as the Egyptians had their tribal gods Isis and Osiris and the Jews had Elohim; he also states that a being higher than any of these tribal gods is recognised by the witches as Prime Mover, but remains unknowable, and is of little concern to them.The Goddess is often seen as having a triple aspect; that of the maiden, mother and crone. The God is traditionally seen as being the Horned God of the woods. A key belief in Wicca is that the gods are able to manifest in personal form, either through dreams, as physical manifestations, or through the bodies of Priestesses and Priests.Gardnerian Wicca as a denomination is primarily concerned with the priestess or priest's relationship to the Goddess and God. The Lady and Lord (as they are often called) are seen as primal cosmic beings, the source of limitless power, yet they are also familiar figures who comfort and nurture their children, and often challenge or even reprimand them.