Sentence examples for deceptive god from inspiring English sources

As he interprets the view, it would follow that intuitive cognitions cannot guarantee their own certitude: sensory illusions and the possibility of a deceptive God preclude this.

Adam Wodeham disagrees with Ockham on this point; for him, there is no clear mark by which we can distinguish a true perception from a false one in the case of a deceptive God.

He then went on to challenge the veridicality of the senses with the skeptical arguments of First Meditation, including arguments from previous errors, the dream argument, and the argument from a deceptive God or an evil deceiver.

If not, can what God says be deceptive or false?

Again, the deceptive possibilities of an omnipotent God play a large role in his worries here.

[See Theodicy 211 214 (H 260 2; G VI 244 7) and Gr, p.64f., for examples of this sort of response.] Second, examples such as these are deceptive because they presume that God utilizes standards of world goodness that he may not in fact use.

That one came just before the closer, "Oh My God," the album's most deceptive confection.

He is revealed as "not a God nor a Devil" but a fallible and deceptive man.

If God's words to human beings might be deceptive, such that it is not just the bishop who may impart false information, but even God, then the human intention to believe God's words as true and to obey them takes on even more importance.

Arnauld's theory of clear and confused ideas implies that ideas, as they are given to us by nature, and thus by God, are clear and distinct, and therefore cannot be deceptive, or "materially false".

She touched the dark line "Voice of our despair" in "Muted" with deceptive tranquillity, then in "Prison" brought a beautifully underplayed bitterness to the ostensibly peaceful passage "My God, my God, life there is/Simple and serene".