Sentence examples for prior god from inspiring English sources

Within a few generations, cities everywhere had built in its service new temples that dominated their forums or had assigned old temples to the joint service of a prior god and the imperial family.

Not only is God personal and held to have been created by a prior god (who was again created by a prior god, etc)., according to the central doctrine of "eternal progression" human beings will ultimately become like God himself.

God's accepting (beneplacitum) will, with respect to future contingents, is naturally prior to God's knowledge, because the following consequence is true, "God wants A to happen; therefore, God knows it will happen," whereas this is false, "God knows it will happen (viz., that Socrates will sin); therefore, he wants him to sin".

The episode also doubles as a stealth course in history, which isn't new for Black-ish'; the prior episode, "God," took eldest daughter Zoey's declaration that she may not believe in God to teach viewers about the historical link between religion and black culture, as well as between slaves and faith.

For "could have" expresses the priority of power to act, the idea that prior to God's willing that p, he had a power not to will that p. But God is not in time and thus "could have" cannot express a temporal priority of God's power to its act.

But the theological voluntarist may deny that acting justly is morally required prior to God's commanding it, any more than acting courageously, temperately, or prudently are morally required prior to God's commanding us to act courageously, temperately, or prudently.

Clayton affirms creation from nothing as a description of creaturely existence prior to God's decision.

When Prior says "God knows when that started" he is presumably referring to the idea that the 'objects' of the calculus be regarded as possible worlds.

These propositions are intended to be contingent (a claim that has been disputed by some objectors), but they are prior to God's creative will.

Robert Adams (1991) argues that Molinism is committed to the position that the truth of a counterfactual of freedom is explanatorily prior to God's decision to create us.

The notion that such truths are in some way prior to God's creation of the world, existing as purely possible essences separate from actual existence, involves a separation of essence from existence, and supposes that essence is something actually separable and conceivable without existence.