Sentence examples for that deity from inspiring English sources

The claim that deity sharing its creative power is an instance of self-limitation can perhaps be clarified and placed more in the spirit of process theism by referring to it as divine self-augmentation.

4. Locke states that we know that deity is "most powerful" and "most knowing" (1690: 379 80). 5. Cf. Hume (1755: 581), for whom "deity … governs every thing by those general and immutable laws, which have been established from the beginning of time".

He bears a similarity to Mars, and some believe that he is only another form of that deity.

The Egyptian cult of Amun was modified to suggest Nubia's "holy mountain," Gebel Barkal, as that deity's birthplace.

Warren Buffett, that deity of value investing from Omaha, has long counseled patience in the stock market.

In religions that hinge on a heavily interventionist deity, humans are only second in command to that deity, so it allows us to deny we are animals.

For example, names state that deities "show favour" to or "love" a child or its parents.

Although he stated that deities existed, he believed that they were uninterested in human existence.

The gods are depicted in a finite number of these symbolic forms, so that deities can often be distinguished from one another by their iconographies.

Older beliefs in ancient Chinese mythology, folk religion, and ancestor worship also played a large part in people's daily lives, as the Chinese believed that deities and ghosts of the spiritual realm frequently interacted with the living realm.

Some of these theories are now regarded as too simplistic, and more current ones, such as Siegfried Morenz' hypothesis that deities emerged as humans began to distinguish themselves from and personify their environment, are difficult to prove.