Cult continues to require a personal being to whom man may come with his needs and desires.
More clearly even than petition does thanksgiving presuppose a personal being, capable of appreciating the feeling of gratitude.
When it became a hero, it for the first time rose to the level of a personal being.
He thinks of the sun as a personal being who, after completing his journey, here takes a seat.
They were merely strengthening some ancient family or tribal tradition by attaching it to the name of a great, powerful, personal being, an immortal.
As a result, 'all the changes and processes of the impersonal sky came to be spoken of as personal actions performed by a personal being, Zeus.
First the sun may have been regarded (in the manner familiar to savage races) as a personal being.
He answers to the Helios of the Homeric hymn to the sun, conceived as a personal being, a form which he still retains in the fancy of the Greek islanders.
And if we take the case of "England" as an example of a collective being, we shall see that England has as much right to be considered a personal being as any single Englishman, composed as he is of innumerable separate beings.
But to the religious sentiment God is a real Father, real Love and Mercy; for to it he is a real, living, personal being, and therefore his attributes are also living and personal.
God is an existence, a subject to thee, for the same reason that he is to thee a wise, a blessed, a personal being.
The mystic speculates concerning the essence of Nature or of man, but under, and by means of, the supposition that he is speculating concerning another, a personal being, distinct from both.
The value of the Argument is, that it assures us of the existence of a personal Being, who rules us in righteousness, and who is the proper object of supreme affection and service.
In other words, if there be a God, and if he be a personal being, miracles are possible.
Many entertain the belief that of the three personages constituting the Godhead only one is a personal being with a tangible body, viz.
The highest perfection of personal being is moral order, and therefore human personality, conceived in its purity and perfection, is the end of the Divine government.
If, then, God is a personal Being, the Absolute Personality, another being can not proceed from Him except in virtue of his own free determination.
Now the union of the human nature with the Word of God is in personal being, which depends not on any habit, but on the nature itself.
For this union is in personal being, and knowledge belongs to person only by reason of a nature.
And hence the irrational creature which falls short of the union with God by operation has no fitness to be united with Him in personal being.
But it ought to be noticed, before we pass on, that the term personal being is also applied to man, and is said by many writers to involve the three ideas of thought, desire, and will.
We will examine in the next chapter whether man is a personal being as we have used the term; but if we admit that he is, we have another and independent argument in favour of the Creator being so too.
Now any being who is able to design we will call a personal being.
Therefore, if man is a personal being, it follows that man's Maker must be so too.
But the Old Testament locates in the heart the centre of personal being.
The grim fact touches only the surface life, and has nothing to do with the essential, personal being.
Most of the Bibles, and nearly all the religious teachers of the world, have represented God as being a personal being, and, at the same time, an infinite spirit.
As Personal Being is the one thing that lasts beyond Time, and carries in itself the character of absoluteness, so it appears that Beauty, the knowledge and expression of the relationship of Personal Being, is also eternal.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "personal being" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
