The worship of Khandoba developed during the 9th and 10th centuries from a folk deity into a composite god possessing the attributes of Shiva, Bhairava, Surya and Karttikeya (Skanda).
The devil moves in the various versions of this myth from the companion to the antagonist of God, possessing the power to challenge the deity.
Given that grace is as Adams has defined it and that grace is a virtue God possesses, what may we infer about the world God creates?
In order to develop a view that would explain the relationships between all of these things, he drew a distinction between three kinds of knowledge which God possesses, a distinction that suggests another response to the problem of prophecy.
It is also less than clear that 'God is good,' on this reading, is the claim that God possesses a particular perfection, rather than is merely a reminder that God has a variety of perfections.
James assures us that it can contribute to the truth of a theological proposition that it has 'a value for concrete life' (1907: 40); and this can occur because the idea of God possesses a majesty which can 'yield religious comfort to a most respectable class of minds' (1907: 40).
In the example given earlier, the premises licence the claim that, as a matter of definition, God possesses the perfection of existence.
By forgiving sins Jesus was acting with an authority that the Jews believed only God possessed.
One philosopher, sounding like the slyly secular Saramago, suggests that since death was "clearly the only agricultural implement god possessed with which to plough the roads that would lead to his kingdom, the obvious, irrefutable conclusion is that the entire holy story ends, inevitably, in a cul-de-sac".
The second assumption is that God possesses all and only pure perfections.
