By the time they sort it all out, they may conclude that the Rock was for us an omnipresent warrior god, alive in 3,000 B.C. yet able to comment on the search for himself in A.D. 2002.
The Brand New Testament imagines the Judeo-Christian God alive and well, and he's a bad-tempered, boozy slob living in a tatty flat with his unhappy wife and sullen 11-year-old daughter – in Brussels, a bad place to be reminded, incidentally, that satirists taunting religion tend to steer well clear of Islam.
For an hour the dancing went on, the Sufi holy men chanting, "God is alive, God is alive, God is alive," with more and more urgency, until the sun set behind the tomb and suddenly, when the music and chanting was at its most hypnotic and orgiastic, it all stopped.
It imagines that the gods are alive.
The world of the Greek gods is alive and well on Angelini's Nantucket Island, and the secretive Delos clan definitely has Cullen-like powers.
By definition, God can't be dead, because "dead" implies that God was alive, and once alive, an immortal being can't die.
I feel weighed down and lose hope most often.' P3 facility L, male, age 36, on ART This was reiterated by staff: 'At times when people get sick you realise that there is that tension or tendency of saying that God is away from me because if it were true that God is alive then he would not have let me fall sick in the way that I am.
Although Joshua reveals God is alive, he claims He is apathetic to the Apocalypse; having saved the brothers and Castiel, God feels He has done enough.
But when it works, people experience God as alive.
They worried about making God come alive for them".
