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The question of God is largely irrelevant in Buddhism, though some sects ( notably Tibetan Buddhism ) do venerate a number of gods drawn in from local indigenous belief systems yet this practice has taken on different meanings and has become a skillful mean within the Tibetan Buddhist practice.
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Again, as faith reveals God my Father and Christ my Saviour, I follow without question where He leads me daily by His Spirit of love, wisdom, power and prayer.
For example, he asked students to question if Biblical miracles were literal and suggested that all people are part of God.
A Christian came to Abbahu with the quibbling question: " How could your God in His priestly holiness bury Moses without providing for purificatory rites, yet oceans are declared insufficient?
The Apostles ' Creed is then recited by candidates, sponsors and congregation, each section of the Creed being an answer to the celebrant's question, ' Do you believe in God the Father ( God the Son, God the Holy Spirit )?
This may take the form of a purpose ( as in Milton, who proposed " to justify the ways of God to men "); of a question ( as in the Iliad, which Homer initiates by asking a Muse to sing of Achilles ' anger ); or of a situation ( as in the Song of Roland, with Charlemagne in Spain ).
God again speaks to Elijah and sends him to confront Ahab with a question and a prophecy: " Have you killed and also taken possession?
In typical Elijah fashion, the message begins with a blunt, impertinent question: " Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baalzebub, the god of Ekron ?"().
Berkeley put God in that gap ; the phenomenalists, including Mill, essentially left the question unanswered.
430 ) may be cited: " As regards the mother of God ," he says, " I will not allow any question whatever of sin.
But the report expressed concerns that the Roman Catholic dogmatic definitions of these concepts implies them to be " revealed by God ", stating: " The question arises for Anglicans, however, as to whether these doctrines concerning Mary are revealed by God in a way which must be held by believers as a matter of faith.
The question of whether or not existence is a predicate has been discussed since the Early Modern period, not least in relation to the ontological argument for the existence of God.
After a comprehensive statement of the varied reasons slavery goes against “ the laws of God, man, and nature ,” the Conference answered in the affirmative to the question, “ do we pass our disapprobation on all our friends who keep slaves and advise their freedom ?” This position was put into action in 1783.
Michael (), also occasionally Micheal, is a given name that comes from the ( Mikha ' el ), derived from the question מי כאל ( mi k ' ʔel ) meaning " Who is like God?
Smith later wrote that he had seen a vision of God the Father and Jesus Christ in spring 1820 in answer to his question of which denomination he should join.
This to which begs the question: Is this God even in existence?
Ignostics object that a coherent definition of God must be presented before the question of the existence of God can be meaningfully discussed.
The second question, " Do we have any good reason to think that God does or does not exist?
Consequently, the question of whether God exists confuses the logical categories which govern theistic language with those that govern other forms of discourse ( most notably, scientific discourse ).
According to Phillips, the question of whether or not God exists cannot be " objectively " answered by philosophy because the categories of truth and falsity, which are necessary for asking the question, have no application in the religious contexts wherein religious belief has its sense and meaning.
Common reasons that are given in answer to the question why are all not healed include: God teaches through suffering, healing is not always immediate, lack of faith on the part of the person needing healing, and personal sin in one's life ( however, this does not mean that all illness is caused by personal sin ).
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It is a question which New Englanders long ago put out of their minds.
As a word of caution, we should be aware that in actual practice no message is purely one of the four types, question, command, statement, or exclamation.
If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.
There is no socially existential answer to the question.
With regard to the change we are examining, the question is, at what point does the change become irreversible??
Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.
and the question before these meetings was, here is a man of international reputation and proved earning power ; ;
Carl thought the question over slowly and answered: `` I know a starving man who is fed never remembers all the pangs of his starvation, I know that ''.
But there is no question of a visa.
It is not a question of truth or falsity ; ;
Now the basic question to be asked in this situation is what motivates the manipulators, that is, what are their values??
If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.
But exactly how far it will go toward improving conditions is another question because there is so much that needs doing.
But whether the murder of El Benefactor in Ciudad Trujillo means freedom for the people of the Caribbean fiefdom is a question that cannot now be answered.
The main question raised by the incident is how much longer will UN bury its head in the sand on the Congo problem instead of facing the bitter fact that it has no solution in present terms??
The question left by the election is whether West Germany veers slightly toward more firmness or more flexibility.
the Army, Navy and Air Force, among others, may question Secretary Freeman's claim that the high estate of United States agriculture is the `` strongest deterrent '' to the spread of communism.
A recent study on radiation exposure by the AEC's division of biology and medicine stated: `` The question of the biological effect of ( radiation ) doses is not considered '' herein.
`` The President says '', the translator came in, `` that the reason he asked you where you were going is because he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast Asia, and that everywhere you went, you would seek the answer to your question.
It is another question whether `` they '' -- or a single general, off in a corner of China, secure for a few ( galvanizing??
There is even some question whether the U.S. can any longer defend itself against an initiative by the Left.
The big question is whether, in the name of a restored Chinese-Soviet solidarity, the Chinese will choose to persuade the Albanians to present their humble apologies to Khrushchev -- or get rid of Enver Hoxa.
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