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A basic classification of the types of gods as based on the Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, by Stith Thompson: [1]. A0 Creator; A100—A199. The gods in general A101. Supreme God
A diagram of the names of God in Athanasius Kircher's Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652–1654). The style and form are typical of the mystical tradition, as early theologians began to fuse emerging pre-Enlightenment concepts of classification and organization with religion and alchemy, to shape an artful and perhaps more conceptual view of God.
This has led to the rejection of any separate power being the source of evil, or of God as being the source of evil; instead, the appearance of evil is the result of a mistaken concept of good. Christian Scientists argue that even the most evil person does not pursue evil for its own sake, but from the mistaken viewpoint that he or she will ...
This is an index of lists of deities of the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world.. List of deities by classification; Lists of deities by cultural sphere
The Tetragrammaton YHWH, the name of God written in the Hebrew alphabet, All Saints Church, Nyköping, Sweden Names of God at John Knox House: "θεός, DEUS, GOD.". The Bible usually uses the name of God in the singular (e.g. Ex. 20:7 or Ps. 8:1), generally using the terms in a very general sense rather than referring to any special designation of God. [1]
In the New Testament, as well as in the Old, they "consistently use Hebraic forms of God's name". [216] [217] An example is the Holy Name Bible by Angelo B. Traina, whose publishing company, The Scripture Research Association, released the New Testament portion in 1950. On the grounds that the New Testament was originally written not in Greek ...
In sects like the Cathars and the Paulicians, this is a dualism between the material world, created by an evil god, and a moral god. Historians divide Christian dualism into absolute dualism, which held that the good and evil gods were equally powerful, and mitigated dualism, which held that material evil was subordinate to the spiritual good. [23]
The purpose of this template is to provide a consistent and easy navigation between articles related to names of God, such as "Names of God in Judaism" (an article about names for God) and "Tetragrammaton" (an article about a name for God), and articles such as "Jehovah" and "Yahweh" (articles that may be about God rather than a name for God, but refer to the same God using different names).