It was a sunless world in which land, air, and sea were mixed up together, and over which reigned a deity called Chaos.
This attack provokes a new outburst on the part of Job, who ironically paraphrases and develops the ideas of his comforters, deriding the notion that the deity can change right into wrong or that true morality needs the divine will as a basis.
The mere circumstance that the Deity is no longer called by His usual name when He appears in the whirlwind is of itself an indication that the poet was not alluding to God.
The spirit of poverty possesses so ample a bosom, that Deity Itself takes up its dwelling there,” v.
The Deity-Above-All … is neither Soul nor Mind, neither One nor Oneness, neither Deity nor Goodness.
To accuse this Deity of the slightest moral flaw would be blasphemy.
Oanktayhee, the principal deity of the Sioux, was supposed to live under these falls, though he manifested himself in the form of a buffalo.
Thor during his visit there, for Thor is a deity of the formed universe, he can subdue that to his will, not the first double-natured elements out of which it was built up.
From the fierce thunder deitywe turn to Njord's bright children, Frey and Freyja, "Beauteous and mighty.
The Thunder Bird not only represented the Deity but he had great power over rain, which is important in this part of the country.
No, merely said that a medicine man told him he was on the wrong side of the deity and that he'd better make up.
Happiness, they thought, consisted in the science of the perfection of the soul; or in the perfect science of numbers; and the main object of all the endeavours of man was to be, to resemble the Deity as far as possible.
At other times he defined the Deity as that law of nature which ever accomplishes what is right, and prevents the opposite, and identified it with unconditional necessity.
But the human mind, being derived from the divine reason, can be compared with nothing but with the Deity itself, if I may be allowed the expression.
When Christianity began its entry into the ancient world it met with the competition of the religion of Mithras and for a long time it was doubtful which deity was to be the victor.
In addition to this there is the tribal deity in whose supposed presence the sacrifice takes place, who takes part in the meal like a member of the tribe, and with whom identification is effected by the act of eating the sacrifice.
This conception became offensive with the progressive dematerialization of the deity, and was avoided by offering the deity only the liquid part of the meal.
In his great work, The Golden Bough, Frazer has expressed the conjecture that the first kings of the Latin tribes were strangers who played the part of a deity and were solemnly sacrificed in this role on specified holidays.
As is demonstrated the first sacrifice was nothing else than "an act of social fellowship between the deityand his worshipper".
From this curious expression it is evident that the Egyptians considered it necessary that a deity should be visibly represented by statue or animal, in order that he should receive the offerings presented to him.
With the rise of Sais, Neith had become the leading deity of Lower Egypt, ranking even above Ptah.
Her thoughts did not rise to a Deity; she thought but seldom of the story which told her that Deity had taken man's form.
Hither he has doubtless come to try and realise that fate has been so merciful to him that he longs to thank some unknown deity and cry that all is good.
The Roman deity corresponding to the Greek Hestia is Vesta (q.
The cult of Rama is founded on family life, and the relation of the worshipper to the Deity is that of a child to a father.
Marguerite Verne was indeed the crowning deity on that happy morning, as she replied to the many little speeches intended for her benefit, and as the color came and went she was truly worthy of all the admiration then and there bestowed.
Phillip repeated these words as if he were the avenging Deity himself and the hoarseness of his voice made them sound doubly prophetic.
Perhaps Freedom like some deity of ancient Greece, loved him too well to let the slurs and contumely of outrageous fortune dim the bright lustre of his virgin fame.
Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I have steadfastly believed.
On each side of the Deity and the dead Christ are angels holding the cross, the pillar to which Christ was bound when he was scourged, the crown of thorns, the sponge dipped in vinegar, and other emblems of the Passion.
In the fortieth cut there is no figure of Death; the Deity seated on a rainbow, with his feet resting on the globe, is seen pronouncing final judgment on the human race.
In the centre niche is the figure of the Deity holding apparently the infant Christ in his arms.
If learning were added to the personal charms of women, notdeity itself, Lysander thinks, could maintain the divinely ordained overlordship of man.
No woman of the period came nearer being the tutelary deity of a coterie than did Lady Pakington.
From Rome this view passed over to mediaeval Europe, where under Christian influence the monster became a 'sign' sent by an angered deity as a warning and as a punishment for sins.
Whatever occurred to the king or to a member of his household was an omen for the general welfare under the ancient view of the king as the representative of the deity on earth.
The view taken of monsters as a sign sent by an angered Deity had much to do with preventing the rise of a scientific theory to account for actual malformations of all kinds.
Can modern psychology any longer believe in the Deity of Jesus?
It amounts to the difference between a personal God and the deity who is an 'immobile placid sea of bliss.
The oneness of Deity and humanity was so certainly achieved in Jesus that no one can rob him of His glory nor of His place as the Messiah.
It was fortunate because it enabled them to continue their belief in the deity of Jesus and, at the same time, their belief in the oneness of God.
When he had finished laughing, I told him that I also believed in the deity as well as in the humanity of Jesus; and that if I did not believe in His deity I did not think I should believe in any religion at all.
It was in Him that the essential oneness of Deity and humanity first became clearly manifest.
How modern psychology can avoid believing in both the deity and humanity of Jesus, I do not see.
Beyond the fact that the trinity constitutes God a person, it has nothing to do with the deity of Jesus.
It was said that the deity worshiped at Jerusalem was the head of an ass, to which human sacrifices were offered, and that the Jews took an oath to do no service for any Gentile.
Their remarkable loyalty to their religion and their exalted conception of the Deity moved partly the admiration, partly the amazement of these early encyclopedists, who regarded them as a philosophical people devoted to a higher life.
The Higher Criticism, in short, has supplied a new argument against the deity of Jesus Christ.
Anyone who sincerely believed in the deity of Jesus would shrink from praising his human virtues.
They worship a deity called Ba Le Nim Bu and another called San To.
He must not be confused with the Adi-Buddha or primordial deity of Red Lamaism, though the name is the same.
She has thus become in a special sense the guardian deity of sailors; but she is also worshipped by women as the goddess who grants male offspring.
It is dedicated to Kuan Yin, but the Guardian Deityof the Kao Shan ("Lofty Mountain") also has a shrine in the temple grounds.
Veda Fidei Defensor--a Hindu deity who was regarded as one of the protectors of the four "Continents" of the world or Universe.
They also discussed without result the deity of the Holy Spirit.
It had been used in the Nicene anathemas as equivalent to ousia or essence; and so Athanasius used it still, to denote the common deityof all the persons of the Trinity.
Athanasius took one course, the Anomoeans the other, but the Semiarians endeavoured to draw a distinction between the Lord's deity and that of the Holy Spirit.
In his irreverent hands the Lord's deity is but the common right of mankind, his eternity no more than the beasts themselves may claim.
Meantime the Easterns in general had adopted Origen's limitation of it to the deity of the several persons of the Trinity in contrast with each other.
They believe themselves to be independent workers, personal authors, and even privi- 263:3 leged originators of something which Deity would not or could not create.
The second record chronicles man as mutable and mortal, - as hav- 522:9 ing broken away from Deity and as revolving in an orbit of his own.
Love impartial and universal 12:27 Does Deity interpose in behalf of one worshipper, and not help another who offers the same measure of prayer?
Error begins with corporeality as the producer instead of divine Prin- 545:1 ciple, and explains Deity through mortal and finite con- ceptions.
The eastern empires and nations owe their false gov- ernment to the misconceptions of Deity there prevalent.
No; I have not recourse to a god, because I cannot comprehend nature; but I plainly perceive that nature needs a supreme intelligence; and this reason alone would to me be a sufficient proof of a deity had I no other.
Mansel asks of us, that man’s first intimations of Deity came in any other way than as one of the ripest fruits of reason.
The procedure, from a simple commemorative act, acquires a mystic efficacy, a supernatural or spiritual power, often supposed to extend to the deity as well as the votary.
Man, no matter what his condition, can always derive immediate good from higher conceptions of Deity than he himself has elaborated.
The startling refuge was had in the image of a deity at once of both sexes.
This notion of a hermaphrodite deity is not “monstrous,” as it has been called.
Before running a dangerous rapid in their frail canoes they would lay tobacco on a certain rock where the deity of the rapid was supposed to reside, and ask for safety in their voyage.
So long as the mathematical conception of number, whether one or many, is applied to deity by a theological system, it has not yet “arrived at the highest perfection of which it is capable.
Mohammed was the first to proclaim a deity above sex.
Inspiration, in its religious sense, we may, therefore, define to be that condition of mind in which the truths relating to deity and duty become in whole or in part the subjects of immediate perception.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: deity; divinity; godliness; idol; immortal
