Good-god Sentence Examples

To make amends for this crime, the Demiurge had now to deliver up to the good God the souls of those who were to be redeemed; they are, as it were, purchased from him by the death of Christ.

We have a rather sentimental notion of what it must mean to be a " good God ".

Mortgaging his first home to produce and record the album, Dion became a national star in Canada thanks to the success of her first album The Voice of the Good God.

His extreme sensitiveness and hatred of pain constrained Mill to hold that, if a good God exists, he cannot possess infinite power.

The good god created angels only.

Even the characteristic dualism of Gnosticism has already proved to be in part of Iranian origin; and now it becomes clear how from that mingling of late Greek and Persian dualism the idea could arise that these seven halfdaemonic powers are the creators or rulers of this material world, which is separated infinitely from the light-world of the good God.

The good God appears as the god of spirit, the Old Testament God as the god of matter.

For, since, according to Marcion, the spirit of man is derived, not from the good, but from the just God, it is impossible to see why the spiritual should yet be more closely related to the good God than the material.

According to Marcion, the good God never judges, but everywhere manifests His goodness - is, therefore, not to be feared, but simply to be loved, as a father.

Marcion answers, The good God does not judge them, but merely removes them from His presence.

For the Demiurge now appears as an inferior being, who in reality executes the purposes of the good God.

It is plain that dualism here terminates in the idea of the sole supremacy of the good God.

No good God could put up with such deceit, and justice demands that they should be punished for it.

We have a rather sentimental notion of what it must mean to be a " good God " .

In a later hymn Amen-Ra is confessed as " the good god beloved, maker of men, creator of beasts, maker of things below and above, lord of mercy most loving."

The Pharaohs of the historic period were thus divine, not only by virtue of their connection with Horus (see above), but also as descendants of Re; and the king of Egypt was called the good god during his lifetime, and the great god after his death.