The God of Death Yama sends his representatives to collect the soul from a person's body whenever he is due for death and they take the soul to Yama.

Scholars agree that the Deuteronomists ' hand can be seen in Judges through the book's cyclical nature: the Israelites fall into idolatry, God punishes them for their sins with oppression by foreign peoples, the Israelites cry out to God for help, and God sends a judge to deliver them from the foreign oppression.

Initially grateful, Jonah's anger returns the next day, when God sends a worm to eat the plant, withering it, and he tells God that it would be better if he were dead.

When the brook dries up, God sends him to a widow living in the town of Zarephatho in Phoenicia.

God then sends him out again, this time to Damascus to anoint Hazael as king of Syria, Jehu as king of Israel, and Elisha as his replacement.

God again speaks to Elijah and sends him to confront Ahab with a question and a prophecy: " Have you killed and also taken possession?

God pronounces the world " very good ", but it becomes corrupted by the sin of man and God sends a deluge ( a great flood ) to destroy it, saving only the righteous ( Noah ) and his family, from whose seed the world is repopulated.

In this testament, God sends the archangel Michael to Isaac in order to inform him of his impending death.

* 1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message " What hath God wrought " ( a biblical quotation, Numbers 23: 23 ) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland to inaugurate the first telegraph line.

Dining together, Jesse's sons are brought one by one to Samuel, each time being rejected by him, speaking for God ; running out of sons, Jesse sends for David, the youngest, who was tending sheep.

God makes David successful wherever Saul sends him.

Grace's fame has endured and his large beard in particular remains familiar ; for example, Monty Python and the Holy Grail uses his image as " the face of God " during the sequence in which God sends the knights out on their quest for the grail.

The premise of Everyman is that God, believing that the people on earth are too focused on wealth and worldly possessions, sends Death to Everyman to remind him of God's power and the importance of upholding values.

In Exodus 7 ( Parshat Va ' eira in the Torah ), God sends Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh once more, instructing Aaron that when Pharaoh demands to see a miracle, he is to " cast down his rod " and it will become a serpent.

Yet despite these events God does not forget his people, but sends Cyrus, king of Persia as his messiah to deliver them from bondage.

Balaam sends back word that he can only do what YHWH commands, and God has, via a nocturnal dream, told him not to go.

Moab consequently sends higher ranking priests and offers Balaam honours ; Balaam, in his coveteousness, continues to press God, and God finally gives him over to his greed and permits him to go but with instructions to say only what he commands.

Wim, also known as " He of Many Chances ", proves to be an inefficient saviour, as God sends him on a quest for Ultimate Truth.

`` Wherefore also He ( God ) drove him ( man ) out of Paradise, and removed him far from the tree of life, not because He envied him the tree of life, as some venture to assert, but because He pitied him, ( and did not desire ) that he should continue a sinner for ever, nor that the sin which surrounded him should be immortal, and evil interminable and irremediable.

In his first sermon, given during the first month of the plague, Paneloux describes the epidemic as the " flail of God ," through which God separates the wheat from the chaff, the good from the evil.

God is identical with all that is, even evil belongs to God and proves God's omnipotence ;

Modern opponents of instruments do not make the same assessment of instruments as these writers, who argued that God had allowed David the “ evil ” of using musical instruments in praise.

Contrary to their teaching, the Old Testament scripture shows that God specifically asked for instruments rather than merely tolerating an evil.

" Both from the confession of the evil spirits and from the daily witness of His works, it is manifest, then, and let none presume to doubt it, that the Savior has raised His own body, and that He is very Son of God, having His being from God as from a Father, Whose Word and Wisdom and Whose Power He is.

: Do you renounce the evil powers of this world which corrupt and destroy the creatures of God?

The fragments describe a Babylonian king ( spelled N-b-n-y ) who is afflicted by God with an " evil disease " for a period of seven years ; he is cured and his sins forgiven after the intervention of a Jewish exile who is described as a " diviner "; he issues a written proclamation in praise of the Most High God, and speaks in the first person.

The kings of Israel are uniformly evil, allowing gods other than Yahweh to be worshiped, and eventually God brings about the destruction of the kingdom.

A few of the kings of Judah are good, but most are evil, and eventually God destroys this kingdom also.

Moreover, shall we receive good from God and shall not receive evil?

They also assume, in their view of theology, that God always rewards good and punishes evil, with no apparent exceptions allowed.

The Christ, as both God and Man, is seen in Christian theology as fulfilling this role in the redemption of man and of the earth and in the final judgment against evil.

God is presented as a God who will punish evil but will protect those who trust in Him.

Habakkuk addresses his concerns over the fact that God will use the evil Babylonian empire to execute judgment on Judah for their sins.

In short, the Gospel is news of God the Father's eternal victory over evil, and the promise of salvation and eternal life for all people, through divine grace.

This experience inspired the text, which reflects on how evil can exist in a world governed by God ( the problem of theodicy ), and how happiness can be attainable amidst fickle fortune, while also considering the nature of happiness and God.

Rather than being ontologically real, in Christian Science evil and its manifestations are instead terrible lies about God and His creation.

Eddy therefore called evil " error " and felt it could be remedied through a better spiritual understanding of one's relationship to God.

The spirit of this group was that we were -- and are -- living in a world doomed to eternal punishment, but that God through Jesus Christ has provided a way of escape for those who confess their sins and accept salvation.

With its zeal for liberty and its dependence on God it breathed the spirit which had been nourished on the Evangelical revivals.

After this, the senior priest ( or bishop ) pours pure olive oil and a small amount of wine into the shrine lamp, and says the " Prayer of the Oil ", which calls upon God to "... sanctify this Oil, that it may be effectual for those who shall be anointed therewith, unto healing, and unto relief from every passion, every malady of the flesh and of the spirit, and every ill ..." Then follow seven series of epistles, gospels, long prayers, Ektenias ( litanies ) and anointings.

" ( King James Version ) They consider that when Jesus said in John 3: 5 that one has to be born from " water and the spirit " to enter the kingdom of God, it was not a command but a necessity, because the text states " Ye must be born again ".

They also believe that the phrase Holy Spirit sometimes refers to God's character / mind, depending on the context in which the phrase appears, but reject the orthodox Christian view that we need strength, guidance and power from the Holy Spirit to live the Christian life, believing instead that the spirit a believer needs within themselves is the mind / character of God, which is developed in a believer by their reading of the Bible ( which, they believe, contains words God gave by his Spirit ) and trying to live by what it says during the events of their lives which God uses to help shape their character.

According to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, such spiritual practices are, in and of themselves, inspired by promptings from the light of Christ or the Holy Spirit that are communications with an individual's divine essence or spirit that is linked directly to God through pre-existence as his offspring.

Saul does so and makes David one of his armor-bearers and " whenever the spirit from God came upon Saul, David would take his harp and play.

Some deists view God in classical terms and see God as observing humanity but not directly intervening in our lives ( Prime Observer ), while others see God as a subtle and persuasive spirit ( Prime Mover ).

Forms can teach the soul how to worship God, or they may hide or quench the spirit.

Paul claims that speaking in tongues edifies the person speaking ( 1 Cor 14: 4 ), that it is the action of a praying speaker's spirit ( as opposed his or her understanding, see 1 Cor 14: 14 ), and that praying in tongues serves both to bless God as well as to give thanks ( 1 Cor 14: 16-17 ).

For the majority of Christians, the Holy Spirit ( prior English language usage: the Holy Ghost from Old English gast, “ spirit ”) is the third person of the Holy Trinity — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and is Almighty God.

The Spirit ( الروح al-Ruh, without the adjective " holy ") is also used as the creative spirit from God by which God enlivened Adam, and inspired the angels and the prophets.

The term " hesychasm ", he said, refers to a practice of prayer marked by deep tranquillity of the spirit intent on contemplating God unceasingly by invoking the name of Jesus.

In, Mary proclaims: " My spirit has rejoiced in God my Saviour.

The spirit of God came upon Balaam and he delivered a third positive prophecy concerning Israel.

In the beginning, in Syria and then in Egypt, Christians felt called to a more reclusive or eremitic form of monastic living ( in the spirit of the " Desert Theology " for the purpose of spiritual renewal and return to God ).

To believe in God means to accept life on the assumption that it harbors conditions in the outer world and drives in the human spirit which together impel man to transcend himself.

However, the followers of Buddhism usually avoid the term God, for it savors so much of Christianity, whose spirit is not always exactly in accord with the Buddhist interpretation of religious experience.

In the Roman Rite, the wording of the prayer of exorcism is: " Almighty and ever-living God, you sent your only Son into the world to cast out the power of Satan, spirit of evil, to rescue man from the kingdom of darkness and bring him into the splendour of your kingdom of light.