God Sentence Examples
Was God punishing Destiny because they had been greedy?
If God thought it was wrong, nothing we could have done would have been successful.
God, I'm glad you called.
I have faith only in God and the lofty destiny of our adored monarch.
As a child I loved to sit on his knee and clasp his great hand with one of mine, while Miss Sullivan spelled into the other his beautiful words about God and the spiritual world.
God, you look good to me.
The aunt spoke to each of them in the same words, about their health and her own, and the health of Her Majesty, "who, thank God, was better today."
Go your way and God be with you.
I was, for a reason known to God alone, much more calm than the situation dictated.
I hope to God it never comes to that.
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You toil not, neither do you spin, yet God takes care of you and your little ones.
Thank god they didn't see my license plate number.
God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.
I don't know what the odds are, but I figure god is responsible for both - don't you think?
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God has truly blessed us.
God, I hate it when he whines...
God, look at you!
God is punishing my daughter for what you did.
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One God is above us both....
Would god take Destiny from them - a trade for the twins?
God, when he goes it will kill Molly.
God, I can't even describe Howie... from mentioning it.
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God, now I've gone and busted the Governor.
God, you guys shook me up!
Mom said God made me special.
If God wants us to have children, it will happen.
He bumped into this guy who said he had a friend who couldn't make the tour and the Greek god could take the friend's place.
She felt the sudden urge to run again, as far as she could from her past, Talia's death, the bleak future of the White God and his Guardians.
Your fate is with the White God, Jenn.
With four days at most remaining in her ability to control the Black God, she suspected she'd be dead in five.
He'd expected the Grey God's powers to be like the White God's, yet they weren't.
Although he couldn't do everything he'd been able to do as a White God, he'd gained other abilities.
She'd killed one White God and been killed by another.
You will become the man who slaughters the Grey God.
Now, tell me what's going on or so help me God I'll dump your ass right here in the middle of the square!
God, to think I only charged her half-price on her death certificate business just because she was your friend!
God, here I am running around the country and he's out there swimming with the fishes.
God, I thought I was so damn smart, changing names, changing vehicles and some old guy and a small town detective find me like I've got a sign around my neck.
You were trying to protect me too— God, why do men think we can't handle anything!
If god meant for them to have children, they would – no matter what the doctor said.
Yet Carmen insisted that any artificial method of conception was sinful – playing God.
Hers was the kind of beauty that made a man notice her in a crowd full of beauties, or a god spot her from others gathered in his orchard for a celebration of his twenty-seventh birthday.
Only the sons of a White God had eyes the color of amber!
The people around her—the White God she was sworn to serve as a Guardian—needed her.
Darian had followed her around like a lost puppy before she was assigned to the Black God.
Once a god then a slave, he was just starting to figure out who he was now.
He was the Grey God.
One of their brothers, Jule, had told them quietly where Jenn was after a trip to visit one of the vamps holed up with the Black God.
The Black God's bedroom door was closed for the first time in a week.
Of all the White God's brothers, Dusty was the one most likely to understand Xander's position.
God grant it! said Anna Pavlovna.
He's about 19 years old and built like a Greek god.
If god doesn't want us to have children, we won't – and not because some doctor said we can't.
I'm the one you should turn to now — and God.
The White God, Darian, strode through his marble halls, the soft footfalls of his leather boots the only sound in the imperial corridor.
Their betrothal was short by White God standards, a matter of six days.
He had a streak of honor that marked him the son of a White God as much as his golden eyes.
They passed the obelisk marked with the White God's lineage.
I'm the White God.
He walked like he was the White God, with confidence and command.
He leaned over to her and yanked off the necklace marking her as the mate of the White God.
Immobilized, fear rose within her as she watched the Black God lift Darian's bloody form from the ground.
The human world will fall to the Black God if you aren't there to protect it.
She walked through the gateway and imagined herself as important as the White God walking into his palace.
She'd never met anything like Xander, who was not deterred by even a god's powers.
If the Others wanted to find a way to keep the Grey God from assuming his role as the Gatekeeper between immortal and mortal worlds, they'd likely find her a good target.
She couldn't help feeling relieved the Black God didn't want her going with him this time.
Jenn drew a knife and obeyed, guessing whatever awaited her couldn't be much worse than the Black God or Original Vamp.
Darian walked down the hall and stairwell to the study where his brother, the White God Damian, was probably plotting how to outsmart the pesky little immortals who'd declared war on them.
Darian watched his little brother, at once proud of the White God that Damian had grown into and crushed by the sense of his own failure.
Damian's nature was not like Darian's and their father's, but he'd shouldered the responsibility to protect humanity and battle the Black God without question.
He'd begun to remember his life as the White God, memories that had been trapped in darkness for so long.
How does the White God get put on babysitting duty?
He shouldn't draw attention using magic this close to the Black God's hideout.
They were passive aggressive with her, hazing her when the Black God and Xander weren't around.
They obeyed faster than they ever would a command from the Black God, who still struggled to control his vamps.
She'd seen him trying to train the Black God a couple of times but never in the ring with any of the vamps.
Damian had assigned her here to help Jonny root out the vamps who were working with Others in the Black God's ranks.
What dismay she felt at Jonny's first killing a week ago had slid into understanding that the Black God was merely becoming what he was.
Darian found a summer cabin beside a lake in a small logging town near the Black God's hideout.
She was constantly assessing him and had been since she discovered him as a prisoner of the Black God.
He approached what had been one of many former safe houses belonging to the White God near the base of the Tucson Mountains.
He'd had them frequently when Sofi freed him from the Black God.
They weren't far from the Black God's mountain fortress.
My name is Darian, and I'm the Grey God.
Rather than risk Traveling to the center of the phenomenon, Jenn ran down the driveway the vamps had cleared of snow to the narrow country road leading up the mountain to the Black God's hideout.
The Black God's face flashed bright red.
The Black God turned and walked away.
No one was in the White God's study.
The White God winked at him, and Darian resisted the urge to snort.
A look at Jonny sent the Black God back quickly as well.
As a God, you are obligated to follow the few rules you barbarians have here.
As the brother charged with watching over Darian, Dusty had been responsible for keeping the Grey God from killing himself and others during his angry teenager stage.
The Black God bristled with contained power.
Her scent still lingered in the air, and he could almost feel her hands on his body again, caressing him in a way that turned him from a god in control of himself into a fawning teenager.
But I also know he made a mistake long before he became the Black God.
Darian smiled, doubting the White God would remotely agree with the two women before him but proud of them nonetheless.
He sometimes felt like his family treated him like a child when he'd grown overnight into a god.
Since he was freed from his imprisonment to the Black God?
He'd learned a few things about killing from the previous Black God, lessons that would now serve him well.
There's a lot riding on the choices you make as the Grey God.
There's no telling with a Black God.
A Black God does not know restraint.
Because the Grey God's orders trump your better judgment every time.
The Black God looked around him, disoriented, as if he'd been dropped into the foyer and not Traveled there himself.
The Black God didn't give off any of the signs she knew would mean he was lying.
I've heard about the Grey God that existed long ago.
The Grey God existed for a very short time, and he was supposed to balance out the two worlds.
Jenn held her ground when the Black God marched towards her.
It was so before the Schism, when the White God took an Oracle as his bride and was himself betrayed.
If I am fortunate, I will have the Grey God at my command before my demise.
If we can't stop the Grey God, the mortal world will not survive.
It is his destiny as the Grey God.
It will happen this time, the Black God said.
Jonny and his predecessor clearly believed the Grey God was a danger to their own world.
Why do you think the Grey God existed and then was killed?
The Others told me he was enslaved by a Black God.
There's no Black God in the immortal world!
As the White God, he was sworn to protect humanity.
As Grey God, he's destined to destroy a world.
I'm here because it's the will of the White God.
The Black God slapped it over her arm.
You're going to find out how to keep the Grey God from destroying our world.
The Black God didn't move.
I'm the Black God, Jenn.
She flung a knife against the wall in anger then strode out of the Black God's chamber to the ground floor.
She wore the mark of Darian, the firstborn of the White God.
Sofi wore the White God's pendant, Bianca wore Dusty's mark, and Yully wore Jule's.
She wasn't sure what the Black God's priority was, but she wanted to find Darian.
There was a guarded note in the Grey God's voice.
Admittedly, it's hard to keep anything from a jackhammer like the Black God going through your memories.
Her body felt like it had before her assignment to the Black God.
That she'd had a god off balance for so long—and it took losing her magic for him to finally score—was an accomplishment.
Her emotions were twisted when it came to the Grey God.
I took pity on him, not knowing he would become the Black God.
You're not a White God.
Unlike you, a White God had some choice in who he took as a mate.
She was proud of what she'd done, how she'd beaten the White God.
A life with Claire would've been more hellish than a life with the Black God, he said with a smile.
Darian Traveled to Jonny's, appearing in the Black God's chambers.
Clad in boxers, the startled Black God looked up from his computer.
The Black God's face flushed.
The Black God shoved him away and rose.
The Black God's magic swirled around him in fury and agitation.
He'd love a battle with the god that enslaved him.
As Grey God, he had access to magic Czerno didn't.
Jonny was born a god-slayer, the only creature that could take the place of a Black God.
The Black God emerged from his chambers at last, eyeing Darian.
You're not the Grey God.
The lives of the White God's mate, and her best friend's mate, were in her hands.
He treated her as an equal, a partner in a relationship with a wild god, one who respected her enough to let her decide.
She didn't expect her life to change quite so fast or to be accepted into the White God's family with such ease.
Even carrying a White God, Jenn couldn't explain Sofi's pregnancy accelerating so fast, unless …"Wait, exactly how long have you been here?"
The Black God was fighting nearby, hurling black clouds at the Others then trying not to get hit by lightning in return.
He wasn't entirely certain the Black God could be trusted, if not for Bianca being in danger.
The Black God reached them.
Darian saw the hard look on Jonny's face as the Black God bent down to pick up the Oracle.
She glanced at Sofi again before approaching the Black God.
Bianca swallowed hard, reminded of her time being bled near death by the former Black God and his son.
She's no longer your sister, not when she serves the White God.
I'm claiming my rightful place as the Black God, and I'll do it without traitors like you and Jenn at my side.
The Grey God had morphed quickly from someone confused by his world to someone in control of his world.
Black God or not, he'd never forgotten his sister.
Memories of a time when he'd been happy as the White God with his Oracle at his side.
Memories of a time spent in a black hell while his mate helped the Black God keep him enslaved.
It radiated power, the seat of the White God's magic.
The air grew more charged, humming with magic from god and obelisk.
Xander's red eyes went to the unconscious god.
Give my regards to the Grey God.
The Black God came into view, trailed by his storm clouds.
The Black God held her gaze for a moment before turning away.
She needed to know what happened to Darian, if Xander followed through and delivered the Grey God home.
Sofi and Bianca sat, one on each side of the bassinet, peering into it at the fidgeting baby god within.
Seems like the Black God is done playing.
Damian studied him, the White God's power swirling in the space between them.
I'm the Grey God.
If I've learned anything from watching Sofi and Damian, it's that the mate of a god is truly the one with rank.
A part of her still believed it was playing god, though obviously God blessed the twins.
God might not be so forgiving if they did it again.
God knows he deserves it.
Yes. God rest her soul, she was a wonderful wife.
Why don't you go change, and I'll drive you around to look at some of God's country.
They will treat you like a god.
I will grow strong enough to face a God?
Eden stood on top of the tavern overlooking the immortal city of the Grey God.
She, Eden, the Original Human, would be the one who saved the human realm by killing the Gatekeeper, the God who maintained the bridges between worlds.
Eden studied him then faced the dome marking the Grey God's palace.
The Black God and White God are becoming allies.
I can take the Black God next and the White God.
The Black God, Jonny, was one of the three Gods dwelling in the mortal realm.
His gaze went to the body at the Black God's feet.
The Black God was up to something.
Jonny snapped, referring to the time Xander spent training the Black God to do his job.
He didn't need to read Jonny's mind to know the young Black God was reliving something.
Xander tilted his head to the side, following the teenaged God with his senses.
He scared the shit out of everyone he met, the Black God included.
Instead of going home right away, he went to the last location where the Black God had been.
Even more interested in what the Black God was doing, Xander lingered for a few minutes then left.
Oh, god, are you okay?
God, give me patience.
The Black God was gone.
Stronger than his curiosity was the knowledge that he wanted nothing to do with whatever Jonny was planning, no doubt against the White God, his sworn enemy.
Maybe the teen god was figuring things out on his own, after the godslayer floundered for months with the responsibilities that came with leading his army of vamps.
The most patient of the White God's brothers, Jule had a calming influence on those around him, including Xander, who felt his ever-present restlessness retreat some.
Damian, the White God, had tried to task him twice in the past few months.
Sofi, the wife of the White God, Damian, was the most powerful Oracle Xander had ever met in his long history.
He wasn't able to track the Others, a set of creatures known for favoring the Black God's dominance of the human world.
He had newly assumed his position after thousands of years without the Gatekeeper existing, since Xander killed the last Grey God.
Unable to shake his instincts, His thoughts turned to the Black God.
He knew Jule was able to balance his alliance with the White God and his alliance with Xander.
The others he hoped had died when the immortal world was destroyed months ago by the Grey God.
No sooner had he appeared than the Grey God himself materialized.
Wiry and lean, Darian's golden gaze was identical to that of his brother, the White God.
The Grey God was known as the Gatekeeper, the God responsible for tracking and managing the immortals in the human realm.
It is good to see the position of Grey God filled once more.
Though your choice of handing off the vamps to the Black God seems nearsighted.
I didn't turn over the vamps to the Black God.
The Grey God approached.
After the months he spent making sure no one killed the new Black God before Jonny found his footing, Xander began to think he might've …forgotten something.
If so, what was the Black God after?
A decal with the symbol of the White God – a sun and moon with an arrow through it – was in the corner of one window.
The Others were beyond the ability of even an Original Being or a God to sense.
If only the Black God wasn't using her somehow … "Excellent!"
He appeared in the middle of the White God's compound and began walking.
God, she breathed as he stopped behind a new, black sports coupe.
My god this is beautiful.
You took care of the Grey God's issue before the immortal world went up in flames a few months ago.
Xander had no pity for the woman who betrayed the Grey God, Darian, and his brother, the White God.
I could cause some major damage, but I can't kill them like the Grey God can.
It was directed as much at Jessi as at the Black God for sending someone innocent to do his dirty work.
This is the compound of Damian, the White God.
I live here, too, with my mate, the Grey God.
It's our job to protect people against Jonny, the Black God.
She wore headgear and boxing gloves and faced off against a man with the chiseled features of a Greek god, blond hair and sharp blue eyes.
Jessi, this is Damian, the White God and head of the Guardians.
Jessi leaned around Jenn to see what a god looked like.
The God winked at his small wife.
From what Jule said and the fact your girl knows Jonny, I'd say the Black God is using her to get to you.
They both spent weeks with the Black God, after the teenage godslayer took out the former Black God and took his place.
Jonny was a good kid who had to go bad in order to control the vamps at his disposal and counter the White God's influence.
If Xander knew and Jule knew, so did Damian, the White God.
You killed six women and god knows how many men.
The White God, Damian, was cool and wary, his white-blonde hair, golden eyes and subtle white glow the opposite of Xander's darker presence.
He was accompanied by his brother, the Grey God, Darian, whose unusual power bent the air around him in a mix of light and shadows.
Xander didn't move as the Grey God took Jessi's arm.
He assumed it extended no farther than the Black God using Ashley to get to Jessi.
Rather than piss off the White God, Xander sensed he'd walked into a trap of some sort.
The White God didn't invite the Original Vamp into his home out of a sense of kindness or moral obligation.
His piece said, the White God left.
Xander's gaze remained where the White God had been.
He would never admit that the White God was right aloud, but he began to think he already left his safe corner by placing his fate in Jessi's hands.
Xander studied the wily Grey God, aware of Darian's reputation for having a wild streak that bordered on suicidal.
He respected the Grey God, even if he didn't always like him.
He trailed the Grey God into the building.
The Grey God glanced over his shoulder, a curious smile on his face.
He yanked the Grey God to his feet, pausing for a moment.
She walked straight into the Black God's arms.
Dusty's wife was the sister of Jonny, making him the brother with the most personal connection to the Black God.
She'll run to her dear brother, the Black God, who will crush you.
Snapping her eyes closed, she held her breath, until the Black God released her.
Jessi hurried after the Black God, following him into a narrow hallway and what looked like an operations center of some sort.
The Black God began pacing.
She studied the teen god's face.
The Other was quiet for a moment, studying the Black God.
Jessi didn't have time to figure out what the hell was going on between Ashley and the Black God.
Standing in the middle of a dirt road, god-knew-where, stuck between the bristling Black God and Original Other, Jessi couldn't imagine her situation getting worse.
The Black God released Jessi, who started forward.
He turned on the Black God.
Half a head shorter than him, the Black God didn't back down for once when Xander strode to him, stopping when his toes clipped Jonny's.
If you don't start thinking like a God and stop thinking like a hormonal teen, I'll replace you, Xander warned in a low growl.
Xander shifted between her and Jonny, not trusting the idiot Black God.
She slapped the Black God.
Xander released Ashley and crossed to him, still fuming at the Black God.
I'll need your wife, Jule, the Grey God said as he joined them.
Her own fate was certainly sealed, and she hoped Xander had grabbed Ashley before she returned to the Black God.
A form leapt in between them, and she recognized the laugh as that of the crazy Grey God.
Xander spun and headed the direction of the Grey God.
Familiar anger and pain swirled through him, the same he felt the night he killed the last Grey God.
We may add that according to this view nothing is real but the living spirit of God and the world of living spirits which He has created; the things of this world have only reality in so far as they are the appearance of spiritual substance, which underlies everything.
Vico held God to be the ruler of the world of nations, but ruling, not as the providence of the middle ages by means of continued miracles, but as He rules nature, by means of natural laws.
According to Vico, law emanates from the conscience of mankind, in whom God has infused a sentiment of justice.
He was originally the god of the small river of the same name near Celaenae, an old Phrygian town.
In April 1849, when the Hungarians had won many successes, after sounding the army, he issued the celebrated declaration of Hungarian independence, in which he declared that "the house of HabsburgLorraine, perjured in the sight of God and man, had forfeited the Hungarian throne."
Cook suggests that he may be the god of the stream of Nemi.
It is by no means certain that he made the remark often attributed to him, "Let us enjoy the papacy since God has given it to us," but there is little doubt that he was by nature devoid of moral earnestness or deep religious feeling.
His confessor, Yakov Ignatiev, whom he promised to obey as "an angel and apostle of God," was his chief counsellor in these days.
This difficult task was accomplished by Count Peter Tolstoi, the most subtle and unscrupulous of Peter's servants; but terrorized though he was, Alexius would only consent to return on his father solemnly swearing, "before God and His judgment seat," that if he came back he should not be punished in the least, but cherished as a son and allowed to live quietly on his estates and marry Afrosina.
The Romans had, up to the end of the Republic, accepted only one official apotheosis; the god Quirinus, whatever his original meaning, having been identified with Romulus.
Apotheosis can mean nothing to those who hold that a man may be reborn as a god, but still needs redemption, and that men on earth may win redemption, if they are brave enough.
Even the Virgin Mary, though she is styled Mother of God and Queen of Heaven, receives only dulia or at most hyperdulia.
It was in the latter temple that the statue of the god by Myron stood; it had probably been carried off to Carthage, was given to the temple by P. Scipio Africanus from the spoils of that city and aroused the cupidity of Verres.
In the language of the Christian Church the word " infallibility " is used in a more absolute sense, as the freedom from all possibility of error guaranteed by the direct action of the Spirit of God.
Some see the guarantee, or at least the indication, of infallibility in the consensus of the Church (quod semper, ubique, et ab omnibus) expressed from time to time in general councils; others see it in the special grace conferred upon St Peter and his successors, the bishops of Rome, as heads of the Church; others again see it in the inspired Scriptures, God's Word.
To the translation and interpretation of the Scriptures men might bring a fallible judgment, but this would be assisted by the direct action of the Spirit of God in proportion to their faith.
As for infallibility, this was a direct grace of God, given only to the few.
This universal motive is further connected, as by Paley, through the will of God, with the "general good, the root where out all our rules of conduct and sentiments of honour are to branch."
The mistletoe figures also in Scandinavian legend as having furnished the material of the arrow with which Balder (the sun-god) was slain by the blind god Hoder.
But all the while he was engaged with reflections on the nature of man, of the soul and of God, and for a while he remained invisible even to his most familiar friends.
The theological professors took the alarm at passages in the Meditations; an attempt to prove the existence of God savoured, as they thought, of atheism and heresy.
The remedy proposed by Descartes is (while not neglecting our duties to others, ourselves and God) to let doubt range unchecked through the whole fabric of our customary convictions.
Such a being he identifies with God.
But the ordinary idea of God can scarcely be identified with such a conception.
The God of Descartes is not merely the creator of the material universe; he is also the father of all truth in the intellectual world.
To say that these truths are independent of him is to speak of God as a Jupiter or a Saturn, - to subject him to Styx and the Fates."
To attach a clear and definite meaning to the Cartesian doctrine of God, to show how much of it comes from the Christian theology and how much from the logic of idealism, how far the conception of a personal being as creator and preserver mingles with the pantheistic conception of an infinite and perfect something which is all in all, would be to go beyond Descartes and to ask for a solution of difficulties of which he was 1 Ouvres, vi.
Through the truthfulness of that God as the author of all truth he derives a guarantee for our perceptions in so far as these are clear and distinct.
And it is in guaranteeing the veracity of our clear and distinct conceptions that the value of his deduction of God seems in his own estimate to rest.
The force of the universe is swept up and gathered in God, who communicates motion to the parts of extension, and sustains that motion from moment to moment; and in the same way the force of mind has really been concentrated in God.
Every moment one expects to find Descartes saying with Hobbes that man's thought has created God, or with Spinoza and Malebranche that it is God who really thinks in the apparent thought of man.
He sees insoluble contradictions in every mode of conceiving God as real, yet he advocates religious belief, though the object of that belief have but an abstract or imaginary existence.
The death of his deeply beloved consort Anastasia and his son Demetrius, and the desertion of his one bosom friend Prince Kurbsky, about the same time, seem to have infuriated Ivan against God and man.
He wrote Practical Sermons (1858; edited by Noah Porter); Lectures on the Moral Government of God (2 vols., 1859), and Essays and Lectures upon Select Topics in Revealed Theology (1859), all published posthumously.
The life of trust in God is a fact, not so much to be explained as to explain everything else.
That God is love and that the purpose of His love is the moral organization of humanity in the "Kingdom of God" - this idea, with its immense range of application-.-is applied in Ritschl's initial datum.
With God as "First Cause" or "Moral Legislator" theology has no concern; nor is it interested in the "speculative" problems indicated by the traditional doctrine of the Trinity.
Once more, in the doctrine of sin and redemption, the governing idea is God's fatherly purpose for His family.
The whole apparatus of "forensic" ideas (law, punishment, satisfaction, &c.) is summarily rejected as foreign to God's purpose of love.
Ritschl is so faithful to the standpoint of the religious community, that he has nothing definite to say on many inevitable questions, such as the relation of God to pagan races.
That he aimed at conquering the whole world and demanded to be worshipped as a god is the traditional view.
He does not discuss the possibility of successful resistance to the Chaldeans; he simply assumes that the attempt is foolish and wicked, and, like other prophets, he identifies his political programme with the will of God.
The administration of the affairs of the world by the God of Israel is represented, in a word, as determined not by ethical considerations but by personal preferences.
His high conception of God's transcendence, it may be supposed, led him to ignore intermediary agencies, which are common in the popular literature, and later, under the influence of this same conception of transcendence, are freely employed.
The Jews would have thought that He had returned to Sinai, the holy mountain; and that they were deprived of the temporal blessings which were the gifts of a God who literally dwelt in the midst of his people."
The name, arising from this unusual sound, has been by metonymy translated into " God's Voice."
The document is entitled "Secrett Inventionis, proffitabill and necessary in theis dayes for defence of this Iland, and withstanding of strangers, enemies of God's truth and religion," a and the inventions consist of (1) a mirror for burning the enemies' ships at any distance, (2) a piece of artillery destroying everything round an arc of a circle, and (3) a round metal chariot, so constructed that its occupants could move it rapidly and easily, while firing out through small holes in it.
Briggs was greatly excited by Napier's invention and visited him at Merchiston in 1615, staying with him a whole month; he repeated his visit in 1616 and, as he states, "would have been glad to make him a third visit if it had pleased God to spare him so long."
They were unanimous in adopting the idea of a church in which all the members were priests under the Lord Jesus, the One High Priest and Ruler; the officers of which were not mediators between men and God, but preachers of One Mediator, Christ Jesus; not lords over God's heritage, but ensamples to the flock and ministers to render service.
The doctrines of Presbyterianism are those generally known as evangelical and Calvinistic. The supreme standard of belief is the Word of God in the original languages.
This page gives an overview of all articles in the 1911 Brittanica which are alphabetized under Gis to God.
As contrasted with Indra the war god, Varuna is the lord of the natural laws, the upholder of the physical and moral order of the universe.
The general position which He takes up, that "the Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath," 2 is only a special application of the wider principle that the law is not an end in itself but a help towards the realization in life of the great ideal of love to God and man, which is the sum of all true religion.
Many days are indicated in the calendar as nubattu, a term which signifies rest, pause, and especially a god's connubial rest with his consort goddess.
From this town we have a very interesting though brief inscription dating probably from early in the 3rd century B.C.; it is cut upon a small bronze plate (now in the Naples Museum), which must have once been fixed to some votive object, dedicated to the god Declunus (or the goddess Decluna).
He adds a reason that recalls one of Plato's, " As manifestly as the human soul is by means of the senses linked to the present life, so manifestly it attaches itself by reason, and the conceptions, conclusions, anticipations and efforts to which reason leads it, to God and eternity."
This view ignores that man has ideals of absolute value, truth, beauty, goodness, that he consciously communes with the God who is in all, and through all, and over all, that it is his mind which recognizes the vastness of the universe and thinks its universal law, and that the mind which perceives and conceives cannot be less, but must be greater than the object of its knowledge and thought.
The saints of the Hebrew nation were sure that as God had entered into fellowship with them, death could not sever them from his presence.
God's companions cannot become death's victims.
And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with Him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.
The god was seated on a throne, every part of which was used as a ground for sculptural decoration.
The only idea of a god known to be entertained by them seems to be that of the Euahlayi and Kamilaori tribe, Baiame, a gigantic old man lying asleep for ages, with his head resting on his arm, which is deep in the sand.
It is to this period that we must trace such designations of the god as "father of the gods," "chief of the gods," "creator of all things," and the like.
The moon-god is par excellence the god of nomadic peoples, their guide and protector at night when, during a great part of the year, they undertake their wanderings, just as the sun-god is the chief god of an agricultural people.
The one is that the animal sacrificed was looked upon as a deity, and that, therefore, the liver represented the soul of the god; the other theory is that the deity in accepting the sacrifice identified himself with the animal, and that, therefore, the liver as the soul of the animal was the counterpart of the soul of the god.
The animal is in a certain sense, indeed, the food of the god.
The two souls acted in accord, the soul of the animal becoming a reflection, as it were, of the soul of the god.
To know the mind of the god was equivalent to knowing what the god in question proposed to do.
Body and mind are like two clocks which act together, because both have been set together by God.
A physical occurrence is but the occasion (opportunity, occasional cause) on which God excites in me a corresponding mental state; the exercise of my will is the occasion on which God moves my body.
Every operation in which mind and matter are both concerned is an effect of neither, but the direct act of God.
God, who is the cause of the concomitance of bodily and mental facts, is in truth the sole cause in the universe.
No fact contains in itself the ground of any other; the existence of the facts is due to God, their sequence and coexistence are also due to him.
My desires, volitions and thoughts are thus the desires, volitions and thoughts of God.
Apart from God, the finite being has no reality, and we only have the idea of it from God.
Chief of the cardinal virtues is humility, a confession of our own helplessness and submission to God.
He declared, when answering a complaint that a certain captain in his regiment was a better preacher than fighter, that he who prayed best would fight best, and that he knew nothing could" give the like courage and confidence as the knowledge of God in Christ will."The superiority of these men - more intelligent than the common soldiers, better disciplined, better trained, better armed, excellent horsemen and fighting for a great cause - not only over the other parliamentary troops but over the royalists, was soon observed in battle.
The Long Parliament had ordered a strict observance of Sunday, punished swearing severely, and made adultery a capital crime; Cromwell issued further ordinances against duelling, swearing, racemeetings and cock-fights - the last as tending to the disturbance of the public peace and the encouragement of "dissolute practices to the dishonour of God."
God has brought us hither to consider the work we may do in the world as well as at home."
Cromwell replied by requesting a brief delay to ask counsel of God and his own heart.
On the 31st of August he seemed to rally, and one who slept in his bedchamber and who heard him praying, declared, "a public spirit to God's cause did breathe in him to the very last."
He was naturally compassionate towards objects in distress even to an effeminate measure; though God had made him a heart wherein was left little room for fear,.
From the epistles of Paul, who thanked God that he spake with tongues more than all or any of his Corinthian converts, we can gather a just idea of how he regarded this gift and of what it really was.
A man "that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God; for no man understandeth;" and therefore it is expedient that he keep this gift for his private chamber and there pour out the mysteries.
They were wont to cry out, each of himself, "I am God; I am the Son of God; or I am the divine Spirit."
He depicts her quick changes of colour, her dishevelled hair, her panting breast, her apparent increase of stature as the god draws nigh and fills her with his divine afflatus.
Thus in the Sandwich Islands the god Oro gave his oracles through a priest who "ceased to act or speak as a voluntary agent, but with his limbs convulsed, his features distorted and terrific, his eyes wild and strained, he would roll on the ground roaming at the mouth, and reveal the will of the god in shrill cries and sounds violent and indistinct, which the attending priests duly interpreted to the people."
This all took place at Valarshapat, where Gregory, anxious to fix a site on which to build shrines for the relics of Ripsime and Gaiana, saw the Son of God come down in a sheen of light, the stars of heaven attending, and smite the earth with a golden hammer till the nether world resounded to his blows.
Herodotus mentions the temple dedicated to "Perseus" and asserts that Chemmis was remarkable for the celebration of games in honour of that hero, after the manner of the Greeks, at which prizes were given; as a matter of fact some representations are known of Nubians and people of Puoni (Somalic coast) clambering up poles before the god Min.
Min was especially a god of the desert routes on the east of Egypt, and the trading tribes are likely to have gathered to his festivals for business and pleasure, at Coptos (which was really near to Neapolis, Kena) even more than at Akhmim.
In 1616 appeared his Treatise on the Love of God, which teaches that perfection of the spiritual life to which the former work is meant to be the "Introduction."
Eventually a new commission was issued in 1656, and on its report, into which were inserted nineteen of the former depositions, the "servant of God" was beatified in 1661.
God, he says, is to be regarded not as an absolute but as an Infinite Person, whose nature it is that he should realize himself in finite persons.
These persons are objects of God's love, and he arranges the world for their good.
The direct connecting link between God and man is the "genius," a higher spiritual individuality existing in man by the side of his lower, earthly individuality.
Their deed of agreement was drawn up in the temple by a notary public, and confirmed by an oath " by god and the king."
The god of a city was originally owner of its land, which encircled it with an inner ring of irrigable arable land and an outer fringe of pasture, and the citizens were his tenants.
The god and his viceregent, the king, had long ceased to disturb tenancy, and were content with fixed dues in naturalia, stock, money or service.
The tithe seems to have been the composition for the rent due to the god for his land.
The Code deals with a class of persons devoted to the service .of a god, as vestals or hierodules.
Finally, it may be noted that many immoral acts, such as the use of false weights, lying, &c., which could not be brought into court, are severely denounced in the Omen Tablets as likely to bring the offender into " the hand of God " as opposed to " the hand of the king."
All creatures he called his "brothers" or "sisters" - the chief example is the poem of the "Praises of the Creatures," wherein "brother Sun," "sister Moon," "brother Wind," and "sister Water" are called on to praise God.
By his condemnation of Gallicanism (1613) Paul angered France, and provoked the defiant declaration of the states general of 1614 that the king held his crown from God alone.
The names of some of these earliest captains of adventure, Fra Moriale, Count Lando and Duke Werner, who styled himself the Enemy of God and Mercy, have been preserved to us.
Many condemnations followed, and hundreds of politicals were immured in hideous dungeons, a state of things which provoked Gladstones famous letters to Lord Aberdeen, in which Bourbon rule was branded for all time as the negation of God erected into a system of government.
The earnest and well-expressed prayer or hymn of praise cannot fail to draw the divine power to the worshipper and make it yield to his supplication; whilst offerings, so far from being mere acts of devotion calculated to give pleasure to the god, constitute the very food and drink which render him vigorous and capable of battling with the enemies of his mortal friend.
By this means the very name of this god expressed the essential oneness of his nature with that of the divine spirit as whose manifestation he was to be considered.
Another still later myth, which occurs in the epic poems, makes Brahma be born from a lotus which grew out of the navel of the god Vishnu whilst floating on the primordial waters.
And indeed, whilst in theoretic theology Brahma has retained his traditional place and function down to our own days, his practical cult has at all times remained extremely limited, the only temple dedicated to the worship of this god being found at Pushkar (Pokhar) near Ajmir in Rajputana.
One of the fourteen sections of the Satapathabrahmana, the tenth, called Agni-rahasya or "the mystery of Agni (the god and altar)," is entirely devoted to this feature of the sacrificial symbolism.
God was apt to be thought of as purely transcendent, not immanent in the world.
If the word " deism " emphasizes a negative element - rejection of church Christianity - " theism " generally emphasizes the positive element - belief in God.
Newman, Frances Power Cobbe, and others, for their more modern speculative belief in God, which, while non-Christian or at least non-orthodox, held to an immanent God, continually revealing himself - in the moral consciousness.
Yet the natural or physical theology of the philosophers - in contrast to mere myths or mere statecraft - seems a straightforward effort to reach faith in God on grounds of scientific reason.
Zwingli and Calvin on the other hand prefer the positive view of law as instituted by God far back in history in the days of the Old Covenant; but,, when exegesis or controversy puts pressure upon them, they fall into line and reiterate the appeal to a Natural Law.
The supreme god, Isvara, has the personal name Prajapati, Visvakarman or some other.
Indian Vedic henotheism (otherwise called kathenotheism); 3 Semitic monolatry, so important as the probable starting-point of religious development in Israel; the Greek use of " Zeus " almost as we say " God " - even the attempt to arrange deities in a monarchical pantheon, all show the tendency, though it so seldom attains a real victory.
It can never quite confine attention to the problem of the being of God.
Where God is believed in at all, it is believed that upon God everything else depends.
Kant swept away, so far as his influence extended, such " dogmatic metaphysics " and the old-fashioned theism which it constituted or included; but Kant himself introduced, in his own more sceptical yet also more moral type of theistic doctrine, a new trichotomy - God, Freedom, Immortality, the three " postulates " of the practical reason."
In Christian theology, much labour has been spent upon vindicating man's freedom against God's intrusion, or upon blotting out human power in order to leave room for the divine.
If there is a God at all, he must be thought of as the guarantee of freedom in man and as the pledge of his immortality.
First of all, attention has been concentrated upon God.
On the contrary, even Christian theology makes at least the effort to show that the thought of God regulates the whole system of belief.
The further question " What is God?"
Bruce feels this so strongly that the natural theology section of his Apologetics entirely omits the question " Does God exist?"
When we do find theism dealing with the question " What is God?
Mill tried to reconcile criminal law and its punishments with his very hard type of determinism by saying that law was needed in order to weight the scale, and in order to hold out a prospect of penalties which might deter from crime and impel towards good citizenship, so Paley held that virtue was not merely obedience to God but obedience " for 1 Criticism of the scheme, from the point of view of an idealist theism, will be found in John Caird's Introduc to the Phil.
Paley includes that too; virtue is " doing good to mankind," in obedience to God, for the sake of heaven.
The Scottish philosophy of Thomas Reid and his successors believed that David Hume's scepticism was no more than the genuine outcome of Locke's sensationalist appeal to experience when ripened or forced on by the immaterialism of Bishop Berkeley - God and the soul alone; not God, world and soul.
Its leading argument is the cosmological, concluding to " God as cause " (Martineau).
The universe exists - or, as otherwise stated, the universe is " contingent " - therefore, even without detailed knowledge of different universes, we can affirm that it must be caused, and in its " Great First Cause " we recognize God.'
Still the main weight of intuitionalist theism rests upon the conception of God as First Cause.
God, for Pure Reason, is an illegitimate personification of the idea of perfected experience (" Ideal of Pure Reason ").
And this power is God.
We must conceive nature as overruled by God not so much Later for the sake of man's happiness as for the sake of his form; moral development.
This new statement has at least of Judg= the merit of bringing God into touch with man's goodness as well as with his happiness.
It may be asked, Why can God not create a triangle whose three angles shall not be equal to two right angles?
Theism is directly interested in this, since it affirms the necessity of God's existence.
At least, it would be hard to name any school of theists which was content to affirm that there " happened " to be a God.'
On the other hand, theism does not desire to see necessity - or Fate - ranked as superior to the living God.
Those Ideas according to which all reality is objectively shaped - and therefore too, as a modern would add, subjectively construed - include the idea of the Good, which Plato identifies with God.
The threatened dualism of ideal and material becomes for Aristotle mainly a contrast of matter and form; the lower stage in development desires or aims at the higher, matter more and more tending to pass into form, till God is form without any matter.
And the chief contribution of Aristotle to theism is a theory, found in his Physics as well as his Metaphysics, of God as first mover of the universe, himself unmoved.
God is the soul of the world, although the gods of popular belief are (at least by the later Stoics) respectfully if exoterically acknowledged.
Descartes was an expert; Bacon was the prophet of a great, if half comprehended, future; and the science they loved was struggling for its infant life against a mass of traditional prejudices, which sought to foreclose every question by confident assertions about the purposes of God and Nature.
Malebranche gave all causation to God; and the acosmist - as Hegel called him, in repudiation of Bayle's nickname " atheist " - Spinoza, from the premises of Carte.
The more Spinozistic side of Leibnitz's thought - God as Monad of Monads - is a theistic postulate if hardly a theistic proof.
Pain and sin must have been reduced to a minimum by God; though they are so ingrained in the finite that we have to make up our minds even to the endless sin and endless punishments of hell.
In the end, this volume diverges into the Attributes, construing God in the likeness of man via eminentiae.'
The Schoolmen sought to establish other divine attributes by negation of human weaknesses and by finding in God the cause of the varied phenomena of creation.
He takes the line of separating the things of God from those of Caesar, and defends the traditional Protestant theology with obvious sincerity.
He admits two sources of knowledge - sensation and refiexion; and God is to him the Great First Cause, especially of our own existence (or of the existence of finite minds).
The existence of God was no doubt probable;.
Still, one would not dispute whether God existed; but what he was - that was the hard question.
Yet it is a very grave question whether the idea of God's moral government admits of being argued as pure matter of fact.
Wherever moral postulates make their presence felt, Butler's doctrine of man, as of God, leaps into new vigour.
Clarke appeals to the immensity of time and space as involving infinity in God.
Muller tried to show that even sense experience throws us on the Infinite - which for him was the kernel of the idea of God.
A more entirely novel and more general principle of Kant's attack upon theism is the challenge of our right to build up the idea of God bit by bit out of different arguments.
The arguments had been regarded as alternative or else as cumulative proofs, all pointing to one conclusion - God exists.
They offer alternative and mutually exclusive conceptions of God.
If the God of the cosmological argument is the " Great First Cause," we have no right to identify him with the " Most real being " of the Ontological argument.
If the God of the Design argument seems a limited being, working as an artist upon given materials,' he is hardly God at all.
It is no more than characteristic of Kant's whole speculative philosophy that he should' think the Ontological argument the one which comes nearest to st,-cess (yet the Ontological argument is held to prove - or rather to point out - not that God must exist, but that we think of him as necessary if we think of him as existing at all).
The God whom all our thinking feels after is the all-inclusive system of reality.
On the other hand, Kant's religion is of a type which requires a sort of deistic God, standing outside the world and constraining it into moral paths, or standing outside our moral struggles and rewarding our goodness.
Butler fears profoundly that there must be a just God who will punish us.
Kant hopes, with tolerable strength of conviction, that there may be a just God who will reward us.
It suggests in every deed a personal but limited God, or a number of Gods - " Religions of spiritual Individuality," including, along with " Judaism," the anthropomorphic religions of Greece and Rome.
His extreme sensitiveness and hatred of pain constrained Mill to hold that, if a good God exists, he cannot possess infinite power.
In this way, the attributes are suggestively allotted among the four traditional proofs; 7 but we miss an explicit rebutting of Kant's hostile assumption, that it is incompetent for us to take the thought of God piecemeal.
The only ultimate cause is God.
Nature exists over against Him; but its forces or processes are His own power in immediate exercise, except in so far as God has.
In "God as perfection" Martineau handles the basis of ethics without reference to his own modification of the intuitionalist position (Types of Ethical Theory), according to which "good."
Similarly, miracles - absolute new beginnings - are possible on God's side, if they are not mere anomalies but acts promotive of the general meaning or tendency of things, and of the divine plan of the universe.
God sees all history neither as future nor as present but as actual.
The theory found a melodious echo in Tennyson's In Memoriam, a great hymn of God, Freedom and Immortality on a basis of speculative agnosticism.
Modern doubt does not say there is no God; it says, We don't know.
And the God he postulates is brought in ex machina like the God of the old Design argument in its roughest popular form.
There must be a God, who could compel irrational matter to serve rational ends - so ran the old argument.
There must be a God who can miraculously endow the irrational mind of man with truth - so runs the new.
Conversely, if God cares for men, despair is impossible.
Wolff's list is of some historical importance - atheism, deism (a God without care for men) and naturalism (denial of supernatural revelation); anthropomorphism (assigning a human body to God); materialism, and idealism (non-existence of matter); paganism (polytheism); Manichaeism, Spinozism, Epicureanism.
This same way of looking at the origin of the material world is illustrated in the Egyptian notion of a cosmic egg out of which issues the god (Phta) who creates the world.
Creation is the act by which God passes through the primordial causes, or universal ideas, into the region of particular things (processio), in order finally to return to himself (reversio).
This movement is said to go forth from God to the animated heaven, stars, visible world and man, which represent decreasing degrees of cognition.
Here the divine will is viewed as an efflux from the divine wisdom, as the intermediate link between God, the first substance, and all things, and as the fountain out of which all forms emanate.
Thus Avicebron approaches, as Salomon Munk observes,' a pantheistic conception of the world, though he distinctly denies both matter and form to God.
These atoms, which are the seeds of all things, are, however, not eternal but created by God.
All these processes are regarded as a series of manifestations of a vital principle in higher and higher forms. Oken, again, who carries Schelling's ideas into the region of biological science, seeks to reconstruct the gradual evolution of the material world out of original matter, which is the first immediate appearance of God, or the absolute.
Some explain the name as the "beer god," from an Illyrian word sabaya, while others suggest a connexion with 2aFo (god of "health") or GrOas.
The sixth oecumenical synod decreed that the dead pope Honorius should be " cast out from the holy Catholic Church of God " and anathematized, a sentence approved by the reigning pope Leo II.
From the manner, however, in which he seeks to distinguish between matter and cause or reason, and from the earnestness with which he advises men to examine all the impressions on their minds, it may be inferred that he held the view of Anaxagoras - that God and matter exist independently, but that God governs matter.
Prayer was his main prop. By it men became controllers of the earthly world and reached God.
Orpheus, in the manner of his death, was considered to personate the god Dionysus, and was thus the representative of the god torn to pieces every year, a ceremony enacted by the Bacchae in the earliest times with a human victim, afterwards with a bull to represent the bull-formed god.
A distinct feature of this ritual was wµocbayta (eating the flesh of the victim raw), whereby the communicants imagined that they consumed and assimilated the god represented by the victim, and thus became filled with the divine ecstasy.
He appears in Midian at the "Mount of God" (Horeb) dwelling with its priest Jethro, one of whose seven daughters he married, thus becoming the father of Gershom and Eliezer.
In the first case prayer will 'be accompanied with disinterested homage, praise and thankgiving, and will in fact tend to lose its distinctive character of entreaty or petition, passing into a mystic communing or converse with God.
Finally we may note in this connexion that in advanced religion, at the point at which prayer is coming to be conceived as communion, silent adoration is sometimes thought to bring man nearest to God.
According to Moslem traditionists Mahomet declared that one of his descendants, the imam of God, who would fill the earth with equity and justice, would bear the name of al-mandi.
He is an especial favourite of Apollo; and later poets even describe him as son of that god.
He is the god of fruitfulness, the giver of sunshine and rain, and thus the source of all prosperity.
Thus the council rejected both Nestorianism and Eutychianism, and stood upon the doctrine that Christ had two natures, each perfect in itself and each distinct from the other, yet perfectly united in one person, who was at once both God and man.
He wore on his breast a badge with his title of "Pere," was spoken of by his preachers as "the living law," declared, and probably believed, himself to be the chosen of God, and sent out emissaries in a quest of a woman predestined to be the "female Messiah," and the mother of a new Saviour.
She finds that he believes that God rules the world, but does not know what he himself is; and this absence of self-knowledge is the cause of his weakness.
In the third book Philosophy promises to lead him to true happiness, which is to be found in God alone, for since God is the highest good, and the highest good is true happiness, God is true happiness.
Nor can real evil exist, for since God is all-powerful, and since he does not wish evil, evil must be non-existent.
The fifth and last book takes up the question of man's free will and God's foreknowledge, and, by an exposition of the nature of God, attempts to show that these doctrines are not subversive of each other; and the conclusion is drawn that God remains a foreknowing spectator of all events, and the ever-present eternity of his vision agrees with the future quality of our actions, dispensing rewards to the good and punishments to the wicked.
A pure morality, belief in one God, hopes extending beyond death - these appealed to the age; the Church taught them as philosophically true and divinely revealed.
Powers created by worldliness and sin are crumbling, as they well may; "the city of God remaineth!"
Professedly, Herbert's contention merely is that non-Christians feeling after the " supreme God " and the law of righteousness must have a chance of salvation.
The God of Nature, whom deists confess, does punish in time, if they will but look at the facts; why not in eternity ?
The Christian apologist indeed may himself seek, following John Fiske, to philosophize evolution as a restatement of natural theology - " one God, one law, one element and one far-off divine event " - and as at least pointing towards personal immortality.
This material world is no longer, as in Zoroastrianism, essentially a creation of the good God, but the powers of evil have created it with the aid of some stolen portions of light.
Finally, in the system of Basilides, the (seven ?) powers from whom this world originates are accepted as the lowest emanations of the supreme God.
When, then, Basilides identified the highest angel of the seven, the creator of the worlds, with the God of the Jews, this is a development of the idea which did not occur until late, possibly first in the specifically Christian circles of the Gnostics.
We may note in this connexion that the system of Basilides ascribes the many battles and quarrels in the world to the privileged position given to his people by the God of the Jews.2 It is at this point that the idea of salvation is introduced into the system.