Sentence examples for heavenly god from inspiring English sources

"There's no heavenly God, there's no eternal life, and there's no resurrection," said Thorkild Grosboel, pastor of the small town of Taarbaek, north of Copenhagen.

What matters is not whether one believes in an unquestionable heavenly God or an infallible earthly one; it is the attachment that poses the problem.

In the early civilizations, the conception of a supreme being or a heavenly god (which cannot clearly be recognized either in pictures or in other material objects) plays a minor role.

The 12th-century German missionary Helmold of Bosau recorded in Chronica Slavorum (Chronicle of the Slavs) his surprise in encountering among the Slavs on the Baltic a belief in a single heavenly God, who ignored the affairs of this world, having delegated the governance of it to certain spirits begotten by him.

In the days that followed, I thought 'Why have I survived?' And it dawned on me that our heavenly God wanted me to survive for a reason".

By raising his hands in prayer, the worshipper approaches the realm of the heavenly gods; by kneeling, the realm of the underworld.

Having angered the heavenly gods and having been banished from heaven, Susanoo descended to Izumo, where he rescued Princess Marvellous Rice Field (Kushiinada Hime) from an eight-headed serpent.

Before long, Amaterasu, the leader of the celestial gods the gods of Izumo were known as earthly gods asked Ōkuninushi to turn over the land of Izumo, saying that "the land of the plentiful reed-covered plains and fresh rice ears" was to be governed by the descendants of the heavenly gods.

Thus it has none of the features of the religious tradition's heavenly gods that persist as attributes of Xenophanes' greatest god, despite resembling it in other respects.

37. distant (s-god, human) os-Heavenly-God s-god is physically distant from humans.

These roles may sometimes be reversed, as in ancient Egypt: the heavenly divinity a goddess, Nut, and the Earth divinity a god, Geb.