In the course of time, though, these original meanings had been lost (through, in Müller's notorious phrasing, a "disease of language"), so that the myths no longer told in a "rationally intelligible" way of phenomena in the natural world but instead appeared to describe the "irrational" activities of gods, heroes, nymphs, and others.
White thinks otherwise: "Lincoln's acknowledgment of his own passivity is his way of pointing to the larger truth of the activity of God".
According to the church's official statement on science, "Humanity is created in the image of God; all theorizing that minimizes this fact and all theories of evolution that deny the creative activity of God are rejected".
The speeches evoke Job's trust in the purposeful activity of God in the affairs of the world, even though God's ways with man remain mysterious and inscrutable.
Religious faith is the element of uncompelled interpretation within the distinctively religious ways of experiencing for theism, experiencing the world or events in history or in one's own life as mediating the presence and activity of God.
Everything that exists contingently is brought into existence by means of the creative activity of God.
This camp, in contrast to the former camp, attempts to honor the idea that there is no fundamental difference between the activity of God in creation and the activity of God in conservation.
The initial existence of the universe is due to the creative activity of God, where it is metaphysically impossible that the relevant action of God occur and yet the universe fail to come into being, and this creative activity of God is complete, in that the existence of the universe is solely due to the creative activity of God.
If so, however, it is metaphysically impossible for the initial creative activity of God to logically imply the unfolding of the cosmos.
The claim was central to Clarke's attempt to exhibit the manifest activity of God in the Newtonian world and refute Spinozism (Schliesser 2012, 443 449).
