They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

`` So that the man should not have thoughts of grandeur, and become lifted up, as if he had no lord, because of the dominion that had been given to him, and the freedom, fall into sin against God his Creator, overstepping his bounds, and take up an attitude of self-conceited arrogance towards God, a law was given him by God, that he might know that he had for lord the lord of all.

According to the teaching of Arius, the preexistent Logos and thus the incarnate Jesus Christ was a created being ; that only the Son was directly created and begotten by God the Father, before ages, but was of a distinct, though similar, essence or substance from the Creator ; his opponents argued that this would make Jesus less than God, and that this was heretical.

Creator of the Argentine Navy ( Armada de la República Argentina, ARA ) and leader of the Argentine Armed Forces in the wars against Brazil and Spain, he was born in Foxford, County Mayo on June 22, 1777 and died in Buenos Aires in 1857.

By then, the work consisted of four books of eighty chapters, and each book was named after statements from the creed: Book 1 on God the Creator, Book 2 on the Redeemer in Christ, Book 3 on receiving the Grace of Christ through the Holy Spirit, and Book 4 on the Society of Christ or the Church.

But so much is written for the sake of proving that Jesus the Christ is the Son of God and His Apostle, being of old the Word, and appearing sometimes in the form of fire, and sometimes in the likeness of angels ; but now, by the will of God, having become man for the human race, He endured all the sufferings which the devils instigated the Jews to inflict upon Him ; who, though they have it expressly affirmed in the writings of Moses, “ And the angel of God spake to Moses in a flame of fire in a bush, and said, I am that I am, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ,” yet maintain that He who said this was the Father and Creator of the universe.

His grave was unmarked until 1966 when a stone was erected with the inscription Kurt Schwitters – Creator of Merz.

" She was ready to meet her Creator ," wrote her son-in-law, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich, about Maria's last years.

The term panentheism ( from Greek πᾶν ( pân ) " all "; ἐν ( en ) " in "; and θεός ( theós ) " God "; " all-in-God ") was formally coined in Germany in the 19th century in an attempt to offer a philosophical synthesis between traditional theism and pantheism, stating that God is substantially omnipresent in the physical universe but also exists " apart from " or " beyond " it as its Creator and Sustainer.

On the contrary, he argued that the polygyny of the Fathers, which was tolerated by the Creator because of fertility, was a diversion from His original plan for human marriage.

It was the Creator who established monogamy: Therefore the first natural bond of human society is man and wife.

“ The burden of proof is on those who don't believe that ' Genesis ' was right, and there was a creation, and that Creator is still involved.

The second edition of 3, 000 copies was quickly brought out on 7 January 1860, and incorporated numerous corrections as well as a response to religious objections by the addition of a new epigraph on page ii, a quotation from Charles Kingsley, and the phrase " by the Creator " amended to the closing sentence.

In the 20th century this inclusive approach was expressed in the condemnation of Feeneyism and in the declaration of the Second Vatican Council, which said that " the plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator ," although this is ambiguous and numerous interpretations have arisen.

Marcus Garvey was a keen proponent of the " back to Africa " movement, advocating that all people of the black race should return to their ancestral homeland of Africa, and see the Creator " through the spectacles of Ethiopia ".

This passage was interpreted as showing the dual nature of the Creator.

In the climactic scene of the 1960 movie version, Brady argues, " Natural law was born in the mind of the Creator.

Pope Eugene IV was concerned that the enslavement of newly-baptized Christians would impede the spread of Christianity and therefore issued a Papal Bull, " Creator Omnium ", on 17 December 1434.

Creator's purpose was always to ensure that mankind will survive, through their clones, and with these words, Creator stops functioning.

The Paramātma ( or Creator ) is not manifest in this Nāma Rupatmak Vishva but is realized by a Sādhaka ( student ) by means of Bhakti ( devotion ), Karma ( duty ), Jnana ( knowledge ), Yoga ( Union, a Hindu school ), or a combination of all of these methodologies.

Therefore, these are the kind of definitions and postulates he purports to examine, asking, " When the National Academy of Sciences tells us that reliance upon naturalistic expectations is the most basic characteristic of science, is it implying that scientists somehow know that a Creator played no part in the creation of the world and its forms of life?

Creator and owner of the E3 Tradeshow, the Entertainment Software Ratings Board ( ESRB ), and the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, the ESA is the only association exclusively dedicated to serving the business and public affairs needs of companies that publish video and computer games, for video game consoles, personal computers, and the Internet.

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator — who is forever praised.

seems to contradict the characterization of the true Christian as one who knows ; but to Clement knowledge vanishes only in that is subsumed by the universal love expressed by the Christian in his reverence for his Creator.

Phrases such as " Ground of All Being ", " Unfolding Reality " and " Creator and Sustainer of Life " capture only portions of who God is to Jews.

Eusebius said, “ The Creator of all things has impressed a natural law upon the soul of every man, as an assistant and ally in his conduct, pointing out to him the right way by this law ; but, by the free liberty with which he is endowed, making the choice of what is best worthy of praise and acceptance, because he has acted rightly, not by force, but from his own free-will, when he had it in his power to act otherwise, As, again, making him who chooses what is worst, deserving of blame and punishment, as having by his own motion neglected the natural law, and becoming the origin and fountain of wickedness, and misusing himself, not from any extraneous necessity, but from free will and judgment.

They are also referred to as Mystères and the Invisibles, in which are intermediaries between Bondye ( Bon Dieu, or good god )— the Creator, who is distant from the world — and humanity.

Traditional Native Americans believe in a creator, variously referred to as Great Spirit, Great Creator or Great One, who is the originator of creation.

We believe in one God, infinite and perfect, the Creator and Sustainer of the universe who exists eternally in three persons — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — and desires to share His love in a personal relationship with everyone.

Asa Gray promoted and defended Origin against those American naturalists with an idealist approach, notably Louis Agassiz who viewed every species as a distinct fixed unit in the mind of the Creator, classifying as species what others considered merely varieties.

It stems from the Rabbinic conception of monotheism that God exists by himself for himself, and is the uncreated Creator who is independent of any concept, force, or entity (" I am that I am ").

The preamble of the Constitution Party platform " gratefully acknowledges the blessing of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as Creator, Preserver and Ruler of the Universe and of these United States ," and supports the Constitutional provision in Article VI, Section 3 that " no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States " and calls on all those who love liberty and value their inherent rights to join with them in the pursuit of their goals.

A single divine Creator, called variously Mawu or Nana Buluku is an androgynous being who in one tradition bore seven children and gave each rule over a realm of nature-animals, earth, and sea-or else these children are inter-ethnic and related to natural phenomena or to historical or mythical individuals.

* The anthropic fine tuning of the universe: He quotes with approval Freeman Dyson, who said " the more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming " and suggests there is a wide consensus amongst physicists that either there are a very large number of other universes in the Multiverse or that " there is just one universe which is the way it is in its anthropic fruitfulness because it is the expression of the purposive design of a Creator, who has endowed it with the finely tuned potentialty for life.

One of the biggest responsibilities in Sikhism is to worship God as " The Creator ", termed Waheguru who is shapeless, timeless, and sightless, i. e., Nirankar, Akal, and Alakh Niranjan.

As the next verse shows, this spiritual call does not arise from any supposed " need " on the part of the Creator, who is self-sufficient and infinite in His power, but is designed as an instrument for the inner development of the worshiper, who, by the act of his conscious self-surrender to the all-pervading Creative Will, may hope to come closer to an understanding of that Will and, thus closer to Allah Himself.

We, however, who are followers of the word of Jesus, and have exercised ourselves in thinking, and saying, and doing what is in harmony with His words, ' when reviled, bless ; being persecuted, we suffer it ; being defamed, we entreat ;' and we would not utter'all manner of things shameful to be spoken ' against those who have adopted different opinions from ours, but, if possible, use every exertion to raise them to a better condition through adherence to the Creator alone, and lead them to perform every act as those who will ( one day ) be judged.

We believe that there is only one God, who is infinitely perfect, the Creator, Preserver, and Governor of all things, and who is the only proper object of religious worship.

Creator Donald P. Bellisario tried to get the series commissioned since the late 1970s, but executives felt that audiences wouldn't be interested in an adventure series set in the 1930s.

He believed at that time that the Creator used laws to create, and felt this was shown by the unique plants and animals on the Galápagos islands sharing features with mainland American species, while wandering birds such as sandpipers were unchanged.

:" We next find Adam involved in the same sin, not through the instrumentality of a super-natural agent, but through that of his equal, a being whom he must have known was liable to transgress the divine command, because he must have felt that he was himself a free agent, and that he was restrained from disobedience only by the exercise of faith and love towards his Creator.

Creator Gail Simone said on Katarina, " I felt the DCU needed a Jack Bauer.