Spiritual Deists reject all divine revelation, religious dogma, and supernatural events and favor an ongoing personalized connection with the divine presence through intuition, communion with nature, meditation and contemplation.

In the case of the former two religions, their leadership each claims direct, special, ongoing revelation from God to establish accepted beliefs.

Other debilitating scandals included " Arms to Iraq " – the ongoing inquiry into how government ministers including Alan Clark ( also involved in an unrelated scandal involving the revelation of his affair with the wife and both daughters of a South African judge ) had encouraged businesses to supply arms to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, in breach of the official arms embargo, and how senior ministers had, on legal advice, attempted to withhold evidence of this official connivance when directors of Matrix Churchill were put trial for breaking the embargo.

Moreover, Shakers believed in ongoing revelation through visions and spiritual inspiration.

Gary Myers's story, " What Rough Beast ," casts Shub-Niggurath as the mother of all the gods, and her children as the chapters of her ongoing revelation.

Thus, one may conceive of the " Oral Torah " not as a fixed text but as an ongoing process of analysis and argument in which God is actively involved ; it was this ongoing process that was revealed at Sinai, and by participating in this ongoing process rabbis and their students are actively participating in God's ongoing act of revelation.

Each episode's story is generally self-contained although there are some ongoing story threads, such as the gradual revelation of Robin's sexuality to the other characters and his unrequited infatuation with Ben from the post room.

The implication of Jowett's essay ( and his other writings ) — that revelation was ongoing and that scripture was always subject to reinterpretation as each generation encountered them — was the target of his traditionalist foes.

To comprehend God's ongoing revelation is why the Church is important at all ages.

This position has been softened by some adherents, or completely rejected by other churches where Jews are recognized to have a special status due to their covenant with God through Abraham, so this continues to be an area of ongoing dispute among Christians.

Process theology is an internally diverse field and while there are general directions that they all take, there are many ongoing debates such as on the nature of God, the relationship of God and the world, immortality, and interreligious dialogue.

Due to the ongoing and increasing raids he felt the need to appeal to the Christian God for help against an enemy " so agile, and numerous, and profane.

An ongoing debate amongst scholars is how to render the Biblical idea of God into the Chinese language.

Augustine of Hippo discussed spontaneous generation in The City of God and The Literal Meaning of Genesis, citing Biblical passages such as " Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life " () as decrees that would enable ongoing creation.

For this purpose, he wrote Mother Earth, a " powerful testament to Nature as God and to the farmer as acolyte and collaborator in the process of ongoing creation ".

He proposes that God is currently reassembling himself through the ongoing formation of a collective intelligence in the form of the human race, modern examples of which include the development of the Internet ; this is related to the idea of the Omega Point.

It emphasized a deep, personal, ongoing encounter with God, and a practical, daily commitment to one's local church.

We strive to imbue Judaism with an ecumenical, egalitarian, and post-triumphalist sensibility ; to create innovative, accessible, and welcoming worship ; to shape halakhah ( Jewish law ) into a living way of walking righteously ; and to deepen the ongoing, joyful, and fundamental connection with God that's at the heart of Jewish practice.

McGillis said that coming to terms with her sexual orientation has been an ongoing process since age 12, and she was long convinced that God was punishing her for being homosexual.

Young Joseph Smith had a series of visions, revelations from God and visitations from angelic messengers, providing him with ongoing instruction in the execution of his role as a prophet and a restorationist.

The original statement commonly translated " I AM " is Ehyeh ( Hebrew: אהיה ), from Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh, " I Am that I Am ( or will be, ongoing )" and is commonly given as a sacred name for God.

While rejecting the religious forms of both Judaism and Christianity, the Hebrews maintain the divine inspiration of the Tanakh, as well as valuing the New Testament as a record of the words of Yeshuah, one of an ongoing line of ' messiahs ' sent by God to keep the people of Israel in the ways of righteousness.

God is the source, cause, medium, and end of all things, and therefore all things are participatory in the ongoing Godhead.

Crouch was responsible for the ongoing production of films focusing largely on foreign missions and foreign missionary works, as well as the Assemblies of God ’ s large inventory of audiovisual materials and children ’ s teaching aids.

They believe the New Covenant ( along with the concept of the kingdom of God ) defines and describes the ongoing relationship between Christian believers and God, and that it will be in full fruition after the second coming of Jesus ; that is, it will not only be in full fruition in believing hearts, but in the external world as well.

The album lyrically reviews subjects such as Laicism, Nietzsche's “ God is dead ” philosophy, heroes of the German Resistance in World War II, and their country's ongoing struggle to reconcile with its past.

The cerebellum is responsible for integrating significant amount of neural information that is used to coordinate smoothly ongoing movements and to participate in motor planning.

There is ongoing discussion among academics over the nature of the Nimrud lens, a piece of quartz unearthed by Austen Henry Layard in 1850, in the Nimrud palace complex in northern Iraq.

The development of new antipsychotics with fewer of these adverse effects and with greater relative effectiveness as compared to existing antipsychotics ( efficacy ), is an ongoing field of research.

The U. S. Department of Defense investigation contract, which is ongoing, will also evaluate the effectiveness of copper alloy touch surfaces to prevent the transfer of microbes to patients and the transfer of microbes from patients to touch surfaces, as well as the potential efficacy of copper-alloy based components to improve indoor air quality.

The mechanisms of antimicrobial action by copper and its alloys, including brass, is a subject of intense and ongoing investigation.

This is regulated in country-specific engineer standards and includes e. g. an ongoing monitoring every three to six months, a simple test or inspection every two to three years and a major inspection every six to ten years.

Production ceased in recent years but exploration of new sites is ongoing.

Although Burundi is potentially self-sufficient in food production, the ongoing civil war, overpopulation, and soil erosion have contributed to the contraction of the subsistence economy by 25 % in recent years.

Despite the study of model plants and increasing use of DNA evidence, there is ongoing work and discussion among taxonomists about how best to classify plants into various taxa.

The obscure and extravagant imagery has led to a wide variety of interpretations: historicist interpretations see in Revelation a broad view of history ; preterist interpretations treat Revelation as mostly referring to the events of the apostolic era ( 1st century ), or -- at the latest -- the fall of the Roman Empire ; futurists believe that Revelation describes future events ; and idealist or symbolic interpretations consider that Revelation does not refer to actual people or events, but is an allegory of the spiritual path and the ongoing struggle between good and evil.

The project was slated to be completed by December 31, 2011 ; as of 16 March 2012, construction is ongoing.

The Americas collection mainly consists of 19th and 20th century items although the Inca, Aztec, Maya and other early cultures are well represented ; collecting of modern artefacts is ongoing.

Extending the capabilities of SAT solving algorithms is an ongoing area of progress.

Beyond this, the evolution and cross-fertilisation of dance styles is an area of ongoing research.

The comprehension of the concept of Central Europe is an ongoing source of controversy, though the Visegrád Group constituents are generally included as de facto C. E.

There is an ongoing debate on the extent to which the writing of programs is an art form, a craft or an engineering discipline.

Another ongoing debate is the extent to which the programming language used in writing computer programs affects the form that the final program takes.

An astronomical calendar is based on ongoing observation ; examples are the religious Islamic calendar and the old religious Jewish calendar in the time of the Second Temple.

, his trial is ongoing.

An ongoing theme in Lovecraft's work is the complete irrelevance of mankind in the face of the cosmic horrors that apparently exist in the universe, with Lovecraft constantly referring to the " Great Old Ones ": a loose pantheon of ancient, powerful deities from space who once ruled the Earth and who have since fallen into a deathlike sleep.

However, there is debate ongoing between groups that believe the evidence indicates substantial extinction of these species at the K – T boundary, and those who believe the evidence supports multiple extinctions and expansions through the boundary.

This is part of the ongoing cycle path debate.

Concubinage is an interpersonal relationship in which a person engages in an ongoing relationship ( usually matrimonially oriented ) with another person to whom they are not or cannot be married ; the inability to marry is usually due to a difference in social status or economic condition.