Being less encumbered by material embodiments they partake more of what is divine.

Several systems of Gnostic thought present the Demiurge as antagonistic to the will of the Supreme Being: his act of creation occurs in unconscious semblance of the divine model, and thus is fundamentally flawed, or else is formed with the malevolent intention of entrapping aspects of the divine in materiality.

Several systems of Gnostic thought present the Demiurge as antagonistic to the will of the Supreme Being: his act of creation occurs in unconscious semblance of the divine model, and thus is fundamentally flawed, or else is formed with the malevolent intention of entrapping aspects of the divine in materiality.

Or does it belong to and arise from the exhibitions and developments which the divine Being has made of himself to his creatures?

They portray him in various perspectives: a god-child, a prankster, a model lover, a divine hero and the Supreme Being.

These processes, it must be noticed, are not to be conceived as successive, or as taking place in time ; they are to be looked at sub specie aeternitatis, as the necessary elements or moments in the self-evolution of the divine Being.

The mind in contemplating God has three distinct aspects, stages or grades — the senses, giving empirical knowledge of what is without and discerning the traces ( vestigia ) of the divine in the world ; the reason, which examines the soul itself, the image of the divine Being ; and lastly, pure intellect ( intelligentia ), which, in a transcendent act, grasps the Being of the divine cause.

The solution proposed by Abu al-Hasan al-Ash ' ari to solve the problems of tashbih and ta ' til concedes that the divine Being possesses in a real sense the Attributes and Names mentioned in the Qur ' an.

Although, as shown above, Philo repeatedly endeavored to find the Divine Being active and acting in the world, in agreement with Stoicism, yet his Platonic repugnance to matter predominated, and consequently whenever he posited that the divine could not have any contact with evil, he defined evil as matter, with the result that he placed God outside of the world.

Hence he was obliged to separate from the Divine Being the activity displayed in the world and to transfer it to the divine powers, which accordingly were sometimes inherent in God and at other times exterior to God.

Correlation between various theories and interpretation of the Name of God, used to signify a monotheistic or ultimate Supreme Being from which all other divine attributes derive, has been a subject of ecumenical discourse between Eastern and Western scholars for over two centuries.

Gregory of Nyssa presented as the culmination of the Christian religion the contemplation of the divine Being and its eternal Will.

Theosis ( Greek for " making divine ", " deification ", " to become gods by Grace ") and for " divinization ", " reconciliation, union with God " and " glorification ") is expressed as " Being, union with God " and having a relationship or synergy between God and man.

Being all-powerful, if they truly wanted humans to believe, they could send a divine sign not left up to interpretation.

# Being a divine prophet, Jesus could not have died on a cross because according to the Bible “ He that is hanged is accursed of God .” ( Deut.

Possibly building on Mary Daly's ( 1973 and 1978 ) suggestion that the divine be understood not as a Being ( noun ), but as Be-ing ( verb ), Carol P. Christ ( 2003 ), shows the similarities between Goddess theology and process theology, and suggests that Goddess theologians adopt more of the process viewpoint.

The Divine Majesty, then, dwelling in the east and created out of divine fire, holds the divine throne, true to its nature of representing to human eyes the Divine Being.

Additionally, the Amesha Spenta, the six originally abstract terms that were regarded as direct emanations or aspects or " divine sparks " of Ahura Mazda, came to be personified as an archangel retinue.

This Logos, the Son of God, owns divinity for participation ( and not originally like the Father ), could therefore change ( Eusebius, with most early theologians, assumed God was immutable ), and he assumed a human body without altering the immutable divine Father.

As a result, scholars have theorized a pan-Germanic mythological origin for Hengist and Horsa, stemming originally from divine twins found in Proto-Indo-European religion.

The notion of an originally divine mankind being held captive by sinister forces is borrowed from gnosticism.

The planets were originally seen by many early cultures as divine, or as emissaries of deities.

It was the ritual of the " divine child " who originally was Ploutos.

According to the philologist Max Müller, the root of the English word " religion ", the Latin religio, was originally used to mean only " reverence for God or the gods, careful pondering of divine things, piety " ( which Cicero further derived to mean " diligence ").

It seems that originally the Myceneans like many Indo-Europeans considered divine any object that inherited an internal power ( anima ).

Falun Gong's teachings posit that human beings are originally and innately good — even divine — but that they descended into a realm of delusion and suffering after developing selfishness and accruing karma.

The word epiphany originally referred to insight through the divine.

She originally planned to write a story about a girl who is in love with her piano teacher, but she had what she called " a divine spark: " Suddenly I said: Frankie is in love with her brother and the bride ...

The Middle Persian term derives in turn from Avestan mərəγō Saēnō " the bird Saēna ", originally a raptor, likely an eagle, falcon or sparrowhawk, as can be deduced from the etymological cognate Sanskrit śyenaḥ " raptor, eagle, bird of prey " that also appears as a divine figure.

A parallel development of a theory of popular sovereignty can be found among the School of Salamanca ( see e. g. Francisco de Vitoria ( 1483 – 1546 ) or Francisco Suarez ( 1548 – 1617 )), who ( like the theorists of the divine right of kings and Locke ) saw sovereignty as emanating originally from God, but ( unlike divine right theorists and in agreement with Locke ) passing from God to all people equally, not only to monarchs.

Sakura originally was used to divine that year's harvest as well as announce the rice-planting season.

Enthusiasm originally meant inspiration or possession by a divine afflatus or by the presence of a god.

Roberts originally considered that the divine name was more likely to have been written in full, but later changed his mind.

The Movement is a fellowship of churches and individuals who accept the Holy Scriptures, as originally given, as the infallible Word of God and of divine inspiration, and who recognise them as their sole authority in all matters of faith and practice.

Though Behe has avoided committing himself to the view that God intervenes directly in nature to create purportedly irreducibly complex structures, Darwin's Black Box briefly speculates that divine intervention might have caused the direct creation of a cell from which all of life evolved, supporting creationist views of miraculous acts of creation, but ironically echoing Darwin's stated " view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one ".

# The divine inspiration and infallibility of Holy Scripture as originally given, and its supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct.

It is believed by some of the Mahuri people that these Gopas and Gopis created by the divine maya of Krishna are their ancestors, and Mahuri people derive their surnames, as described below, from the names of the forest hamlets where they had originally settled as directed by Krishna.

John William Fletcher, an English divine, originally from Switzerland, was the vicar of the parish of Madeley in the 18th century.

Moses Amyraut, originally a lawyer, but converted to the study of theology by the reading of Calvin's ' Institutes ', an able divine and voluminous writer, developed the doctrine of hypothetical or conditional universalism, for which his teacher, John Cameron ( 1580 – 1625 ), a Scot, and for two years Headmaster of Saumur Academy, had prepared the way.

In many they had originally been monks and had converted themselves into Canon, but all considered themselves bound by their rule to reside within the precincts of their monasteries, to meet daily in the church for the performance of divine service, to take their meals in the same hall, and to sleep in the same dormitory.

Christianity depicts a sharp distinction between angels, divine beings created by God before the creation of humanity and are used as messengers, and saints, the souls of humans who have received immortality from the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who dwell in Heaven with God.

Arians taught that the pre-incarnate Jesus was a divine being created by ( and therefore inferior to ) God the Father at some point, before which the Son did not exist.

Though diverse, these views may be generally classified into those that hold Christ to be only divine and not differing from the Father hypostatically ; those that hold Christ to be less fully God than the Father ; in other forms being completely human and a messenger as the perfect created human.

Separating from his superior, Metropolitan Acacius of Caesarea, a partisan of Arius who taught that Jesus was a divine being created by — and therefore inferior to — God the Father, St. Cyril took the side of the Eusebians of the post-Nicene conciliation party and thus got into difficulties with his superior that were increased by Acacius's jealousy of the importance assigned to St. Cyril's See by the Council of Nicaea.

Enlightenment thinkers, under the influence of Newtonian science, tended to view the universe as a vast machine, created and set in motion by a creator being, that continues to operate according to natural law, without any divine intervention.

Christian philosophy, on the contrary, so quickens the human mind that without difficulty it pierces the heavens, and, illumined with divine light, contemplates first, the eternal source of light, and in its radiance all created things: so that we experience with the utmost pleasure of mind that we have been called, as the Prince of the Apostles says, out of darkness into his admirable light, and believing we rejoice with joy unspeakable.

The central point of Irenaeus ' theology is the unity and the goodness of God, in opposition to the Gnostics ' division of God into a number of divine " Aeons ", and their distinction between the utterly transcendent " High God " and the inferior " Demiurge " who created the world.

The essence of this plan is a process of maturation: Irenaeus believes that humanity was created immature, and God intended his creatures to take a long time to grow into or assume the divine likeness.

Anaxagoras ( 480 BC ) was known as " Nous " (" Mind ") because he taught that " all things " were created by Mind, that Mind held the cosmos together and gave human beings a connection to the cosmos or a pathway to the divine.

In Jacques Dupuis ’ Who Do You Say I Am ?, he argues that, within the one person of Jesus Christ, we can distinguish between his two natures, human and divine, and thus between the operations of his uncreated divine nature and his created finite human nature.

Arius, a Libyan presbyter in Alexandria, had declared that although the Son was divine, he was a created being and therefore not co-essential with the Father, and " there was when he was not ," This made Jesus less than the Father, which posed soteriological challenges for the nascent doctrine of the Trinity.

Quoting Pope Paul VI's statement that the shroud is " the wonderful document of His Passion, Death and Resurrection, written for us in letters of blood " author Antonio Cassanelli argues that the shroud is a deliberate divine record of the five stages of the Passion of Christ, created at the moment of resurrection.

One of the first written references to the island is found in the Indian epic Ramayana, which provides details of a kingdom named Lanka that had been created by the divine sculptor Vishwakarma, for Kubera, the lord of wealth.

Human beings are troubled, he says, with the question of theodicy – the question of how the extraordinary power of a divine god may be reconciled with the imperfection of the world that he has created and rules over.

We believe that human beings have moral responsibility and are created to enjoy both divine and human fellowship as children of God.

Nayru, the Goddess of Wisdom, bestowed her divine Wisdom upon the land, and created the world's laws to give a sense of justice and order to the world, and to guide the people in the goddesses ' absence.

In the beginning there was nothing in the universe but only darkness and the divine essence who removed the darkness and created the primordial waters.

God is supposed to be a spirit, which, on the view under consideration, is a mind, albeit a divine mind ; this divine mind is supposed to have created physical objects, the physical objects that make up the universe, out of nothing.

These combine with each other, and the life forms are created as a result of this divine activity.

The divine decision that Set is in the wrong corrects the injustice created by Osiris ' murder and completes the process of his restoration after death.

When the council had concluded, the decrees were sent to Rome where they were confirmed by Agatho's successor, Pope Leo II The subsequent Byzantine tradition came to interpret the decrees in line with the teaching of Maximus the Confessor, which brilliantly combined a recognition ( shared with the monotheletes ) that all Christ's individual actions were directed by his divine will with an insistence that his human will nevertheless possessed true spontaneity, in virtue of its intrinsic drive ( as created ) to obey its Creator.

They took on divine status, and new nobility and artisan classes were created.

Theologians say that, with divine providence, God regularly works through created nature yet is free to work without, above, or against it as well.