Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A similar statement occurs in Maimonides' second principle of his Thirteen Principles of Faith: God, the Cause of all, is one. This does not mean one as in one of a pair, nor one like a species [which encompasses many individuals], nor one as in an object that is made up of many elements, nor as a single simple object that is infinitely divisible.
The Trinity is the Christian belief that God is one God in essence but three persons: God the Father, God the Son , and God the Holy Spirit. [ 113 ] Among early Christians , there was considerable debate over the nature of the Godhead , with some denying the incarnation but not the deity of Jesus ( Docetism ) and others later calling for an ...
N. T. Wright differentiates between 'God' and 'god' when it refers to the deity or essentially a common noun. [7] Murray J. Harris wrote that in NA 26 (USB 3) θεος appears 1,315 times. [8] The Bible Translator reads that "when referring to the one supreme God... it frequently is preceded, but need not be, by the definite article" (Ho theos ...
He agreed to marry her if she would procure the deliverance of the city into his power. She did so immediately and Moses promptly married her. [4] The account of this expedition is also mentioned by Irenaeus. [5] After the war, when Moses sought to return to Egypt – Tharbis is said to have resisted and insisted that he remain in Ethiopia as ...
In Christian theology, redemption (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολύτρωσις, apolutrosis) refers to the deliverance of Christians from sin and its consequences. [1] Christians believe that all people are born into a state of sin and separation from God, and that redemption is a necessary part of salvation in order to obtain eternal life. [2]
Jethro's daughter, Zipporah, became Moses' wife after Moses fled Egypt for killing an Egyptian who was beating an enslaved Hebrew. Having fled to Midian, Moses intervened in a water-access dispute between Jethro's seven daughters and the local shepherds; Jethro consequently invited Moses into his home and offered him hospitality.
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.
Jobes and Silva also note, "This rendering is only one of several examples where the translator clearly avoids statements that attribute the servant’s sufferings to God’s action." [ 42 ] In verse 8, the servant is "led to death," but in verse 9, God saves the servant before his execution by "giving" the wicked and the wealthy unto death ...