Without their insignificant, unnoticed virtue--Poof --God loses divirtue--Poof --God the world goes up in smoke.
The arguments between science and religion and between different sects of Judaeo-Christianity itself are creating such clamour that few people bother to look more deeply within the scripture to divine the lost meaning.
Saul accepts anointment reluctantly, battles valiantly, and loses the divine blessing for what are arguably acts of mercy and faith — sparing the life of the defeated Amalekite king, Agag, and saving some of the captured sheep for a sacrifice to God.
He is utterly happy in his humiliation, at one with nature itself as he partakes of the grape, lost in visions of the divine that come to him in his drunken state.
The new Kumari, or living goddess, was carried from her parents' home to an ancient palatial temple in Katmandu, the capital, where she will live until she reaches puberty and loses her divine status.
Finally, Calvin taught that if rulers rise up against God they lose their divine right and must be put down.
Its great emotional force conveys love in all its shades, from the yearning for love to the anguish of love lost, from human to divine love, expressed in the impressively versatile voices of singers such as Hans Raj Hans and Azalea Ray, and in the haunting sounds of the instruments.
Not a closed book Economics on the net Feminism is motherhood Through a glass darkly How to get a boy Money can buy it ReprintsThe "broken estate" of the book's title refers ostensibly to the religious crisis of the last century when Christianity lost its claim to divine truth, and literature attempted to usurp it.
Or it may be that we have lost the ability to perceive the divine.
"In the middle of the road of my life/ I awoke in the dark wood/ where the true way was wholly lost," he wrote in The Divine Comedy.
