Sentence examples for Good deity from inspiring English sources

Apparently, while the Apple Isle Druids are singing together to the Dagda, that wise and good deity, your typical cosmopolitan is blindly communing with an Android device.

The argument that a good deity couldn't have made a world so rife with cruelty is a staple of atheist polemic, and every natural disaster inspires a round of soul-searching over how to reconcile God's omnipotence with human anguish.

If a perfectly good deity would have the motive to overcome discord and wickedness, it would also have a motive to avoid triviality and boredom.

Secondly, we are also asked to believe that a morally good deity is unable to forgive people their misdeeds unless he becomes incarnate in the form of his son and suffers a sacrificial death.

And if phenomena instrumental to the production of natural evils (e.g., disease microorganisms) exhibited various of the Rs, then they would presumably have to be laid at the designer's door, further eroding the designer's resemblance to the wholly good deity of tradition.

First, we are asked to believe that there is nothing morally problematic about a morally good deity making it the case that if one of the first two humans disobeys some command, all of the many billions of descendants of that human will, as a consequence, be subject to suffering and death to which they would not otherwise be exposed.

Tell the others they must remain here and STAY here in the name of God or Jesus Christ or Baal or the Great Spirit or Ishtar or L. Ron Hubbard or Vishnu or Osiris (or other good deities).

Like Catholic saints or Hindu deity figures, the Lwa are familiar and accessible whereas the "great good God," although loving, is distant, and somewhat above individual human concerns.

In addition to bathing in the lake, pilgrims also perform Pujas by the waterside: a ritualistic offering of flower petals and other goods to deities.

In the era before that disaster, evil was thought to come in three varieties — natural, metaphysical, or moral — and inquiry into the concept of evil was dominated by theodicy, which is the attempt to reconcile a good and omnipotent deity with evil in the world.

Eg: George Lucas with the Force (in Star Wars); C. S. Lewis with Aslan (in the Chronicles of Narnia), etc. Write down ideas for what this god or goddess is like: is this deity good or evil?