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Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the L ORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing ...
When you have seen one, you have seen them all; What is learnt in the cradle lasts to the tombs; What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over; Where there is a will there is a way; Where there is muck there is brass; Where there is life there is hope [36] Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right
There is a consensus that whomsoever is forced into apostasy and chooses death has a greater reward than a person who takes the license [to deny one's faith under duress], but if a person is being forced to eat pork or drink wine, then they should do that [instead of choosing death]. Al-Ghazali wrote in his The Revival of the Religious Sciences:
The Vedic era conceptualization of the divine or the One, states Jeaneane Fowler, is more abstract than a monotheistic God, it is the Reality behind and of the phenomenal universe. [45] The Vedic hymns treat it as "limitless, indescribable, absolute principle", thus the Vedic divine is something of a panentheism rather than simple henotheism. [45]
One of his names is Saptajihva, "the one having seven tongues", to symbolize how rapidly he consumes sacrificial butter. [110] Occasionally, Agni iconography is shown in Rohitasva form, which has no ram as his vahana, but where he is pulled in a chariot with seven red horses, and the symbolic wind that makes fire move as the wheels of the ...
By definition, God is a being than which none greater can be imagined. A being that necessarily exists in reality is greater than a being that does not necessarily exist. Thus, by definition, if God exists as an idea in the mind but does not necessarily exist in reality, then we can imagine something that is greater than God.
SPOILERS BELOW—do not scroll any further if you don't want the answer revealed. The New York Times Today's Wordle Answer for #1257 on Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Henotheism accepts the existence of more than one deity, but considers all deities as equivalent representations or aspects of the same divine principle, the highest. [9] [50] [8] [51] Monolatry is the belief that many deities exist, but that only one of these deities may be validly worshipped. [52] [53] Monotheism is the belief that only one ...