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Henotheism is the worship of a single, supreme god that does not deny the existence or possible existence of other deities that may be worshipped. [1] [2] [3] Friedrich Schelling (1775–1854) coined the word, and Friedrich Welcker (1784–1868) used it to depict primitive monotheism among ancient Greeks.
Gottfried Leibniz asked whether the good and just "is good and just because God wills it or whether God wills it because it is good and just". [1] Ever since Plato's original discussion, this question has presented a problem for some theists, though others have thought it a false dilemma , and it continues to be an object of theological and ...
Deism (/ ˈ d iː ɪ z əm / DEE-iz-əm [1] [2] or / ˈ d eɪ. ɪ z əm / DAY-iz-əm; derived from the Latin term deus, meaning "god") [3] [4] is the philosophical position and rationalistic theology [5] that generally rejects revelation as a source of divine knowledge and asserts that empirical reason and observation of the natural world are exclusively logical, reliable, and sufficient to ...
Deists reject atheism, [10] and there were a number of different types of deists in the 17th and 18th centuries. Deism holds that God does not intervene with the functioning of the natural world in any way, allowing it to run according to the laws of nature that he configured when he created all things. Because God does not control or interfere ...
Matthew 4:10 is the tenth verse of the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. Jesus has rebuffed two earlier temptations by Satan.The devil has thus transported Jesus to the top of a great mountain and offered him control of the world to Jesus if he agrees to worship him.
1. “The future depends on what we do in the present.” 2. “It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.” 3. “Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the ...
"Idolatry rejects the unique Lordship of God; it is therefore incompatible with communion with God". [85] The Catechism commends those who refuse even to simulate such worship in a cultural context [85] and states that "the duty to offer God authentic worship concerns man both as an individual and as a social being". [86]
For example, in Acts 18:12–16, Paul is accused of "persuading ... people to worship God in ways contrary to the law." In Acts 21:21 James the Just explained his situation to Paul: And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their ...