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Bible verses, accepted by most Christians as authored by men inspired by the Holy Spirit—presumably with a functioning sensus divinitatis—in which "God performs, commands, accepts or countenances rape, genocide, human sacrifice, pestilence to punish David for taking a census, killing David's infant to punish him, hatred of family, capital ...
Trinity – used as a synonym for God, in order to call attention to the three distinct persons which share the single divine nature or essence. They are traditionally referred to as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, though some modern sects prefer more gender-neutral terms such as Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer.
[10] God botherer: Australia: Christian people Similar to Bible basher, a person who is very vocal about their religion and prayer. [11] Isai Pakistan: Christian people From Isa Masih, a name of Jesus Christ in the Hindi-language Bible. [12]
Antilegomena (from Greek ἀντιλεγόμενα) are written texts whose authenticity or value is disputed. [1] Eusebius in his Church History (c. 325) used the term for those Christian scriptures that were "disputed", literally "spoken against", in Early Christianity before the closure of the New Testament canon.
Deus (Classical Latin:, Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈd̪ɛː.us]) is the Latin word for 'god' or 'deity'. Latin deus and dīvus ('divine') are in turn descended from Proto-Indo-European *deiwos, 'celestial' or 'shining', from the same root as *Dyēus, the reconstructed chief god of the Proto-Indo-European pantheon.
Sight of God's supernatural works and retribution would militate against faith in God's Word. [5] William Lane Craig says, in Paul's view, God's properties, his eternal power and deity, are clearly revealed in creation, so that people who fail to believe in an eternal, powerful creator of the world are without excuse. Indeed, Paul says that ...
Aseity (from Latin a "from" and se "self", plus -ity) is the property by which a being exists of and from itself. [1] It refers to the monotheistic belief that God does not depend on any cause other than himself for his existence, realization, or end, and has within himself his own reason of existence.
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...