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Critics of Christian conceptions of God as all-good, all-knowing, and all-powerful cite the presence of evil in the world as evidence that it is impossible for all three attributes to be true; this apparent contradiction is known as the problem of evil. The evil God challenge is a thought experiment that explores whether the hypothesis that God ...
In the United States Capitol dome, he is also depicted ascending into Olympus and becoming a god, in the famous painting called The Apotheosis of Washington. Kanichi Otsuka: 1891–present Shinreikyo states of its founder "God became one with a human body, appeared among humanity, and founded Shinreikyo." [36] Maria Franciszka Kozłowska
A heresy that arose in the 2nd century AD. Marcionists believed that the God of the Old Testament was a different god from the God of the New Testament. [7] Monarchianism: Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches, mainline Protestantism: A heresy that taught that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit were all the same being.
Christian theology draws its concept of evil from the Old and New Testaments. The Christian Bible exercises "the dominant influence upon ideas about God and evil in the Western world." [24] In the Old Testament, evil is understood to be an opposition to God as well as something unsuitable or inferior such as the leader of the fallen angels ...
the Fates (goddesses who preside over the fates of men) A464. Gods of Justice; A465. Gods of the Arts; A472. Gods of Sleep; A473. Gods of Wealth; A475. Gods of Love and Lust; A484. Gods of Oaths; A485. Gods of War; A486. the Furies (goddesses of vengeance) A487. Gods of Death; A490. Miscellaneous Gods of the Earth A491. God of Travellers; A493 ...
Showing the Characteristics of a Godly Man i. A Man of Knowledge ii. A Man Moved by Faith iii. A Man Fired with Love iv. A Man Like God v. A Man Careful about the Worship of God vi. A Man who Serves God not men vii. A Man who Prizes Christ viii. A Man who Weeps ix. A Man who Loves the Word x. A Man who has the Spirit of God Residing in him xi ...
Christian ethics, also referred to as moral theology, was a branch of theology for most of its history. [3]: 15 Becoming a separate field of study, it was separated from theology during the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Enlightenment and, according to Christian ethicist Waldo Beach, for most 21st-century scholars it has become a "discipline of reflection and analysis that lies between ...
Prudentius, writing in the 5th century, was the first author to allegorically represent Christian morality as a struggle between seven sins and seven virtues. His poem Psychomachia depicts a battle between female personifications of virtues and vices, with each virtue confronting and defeating a particular vice. [ 9 ]