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God the Father, God the Father - God the Father in polytheistic religions, God the Father - God the Father in monotheism, God the Father - The Israelite Father God, God the Father - The gender of God in monotheism, God the Father - God the Father in Christianity, God the Father - Trinitarianism and other Christian conceptions, God the Father - External link

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God the Father, God the Father - God the Father in polytheistic religions, God the Father - God the Father in monotheism, God the Father - The Israelite Father God, God the Father - The gender of God in monotheism, God the Father - God the Father in Christianity, God the Father - Trinitarianism and other Christian conceptions, God the Father - External link

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Father Divine - In the South: 1912-1914. The Messenger traveled south. He preached extensively in Georgia. In 1913, conflicts with local ministers got him sentenced to 60 days in a chain gang. While serving his sentence, several prison inspectors were injured in an auto accident, which The Messenger viewed as the direct result of their disbelief. Upon release, The Messenger attracted a following of mostly black women in Valdosta, Georgia. He taught celibacy and the rejection of gender categorizations, which was liberating doctrine f ...

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Father Divine, Father Divine - Early life and original name, Father Divine - Preaching as God: 1912-1965, Father Divine - In the South: 1912-1914, Father Divine - Brooklyn and marriage to Peninniah: 1914-1919, Father Divine - Sayville New York: 1919-1931, Father Divine - Sayville arrests trial notoriety and prison: 1931-1932, Father Divine - Harlem: 1932-1942, Father Divine - Pennsylvania: 1942-death, Father Divine - Physical characteristics and preaching style, Father Divine - Civil rights legacy, Father Divine - Religious legacy

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Knowledge is divided between phenomenology, science of the changeable and ontology, science of the unchangeable. Ontology is the realm of being and phenomenology that of becoming.

To explain it to the laity, Christianity uses the word 'Father' for ontology and 'Son' for phenomenology. The Holy Spirit is individualised consciousness that mediates the two.

(See also: Science and Religion, Faith and Belief, Spiritual Guidance, God and Religion, Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

The sky father is a recurring theme in pagan and neopagan mythology. The sky father is the complement of the earth mother and appears in some creation myths, many of which are European or ancient Near Eastern. Other cultures have quite different myths; Egyptian mythology features a sky mother and an earthly dying and reviving god of vegetation. Shinto gives precedence to a sun goddess. A sky father also relates to a solar deity, a god identified with the sun. In Maori mythology, Ranginui was the sky father. In this story, the sky father and earth moth ...

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• Sky father - History of the concept

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The Adam-God theory (also called the Adam-God doctrine) was a teaching by Brigham Young, that Adam "is our Father and our God, and the only God with whom we have to do." (1 J.D. 50-51). Some of Young's contemporaries interpreted the doctrine as stating that Adam was the God of this earth and the father of Jesus, and as so interpreted, the doctrine was unpopular and confusing even among some contemporary Latter-day Saint leaders such as Orson Pratt and Amasa M. Lyman, and by some of the Mormon p ...

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• Adam-God theory - Young's Adam-God Teaching
• Adam-God theory - Statements and Controversy
• Adam-God theory - Adam as the father of Jesus Christ
• Adam-God theory - The distinction between Father Adam and Father Elohim
• Adam-God theory - Official Interpretations
• Adam-God theory - References to the Doctrine in Temples
• Adam-God theory - The Theory as a Doctrine
• Adam-God theory - Contemporary Interpretations
• Adam-God theory - Evidence For Adam is God Interpretation
• Adam-God theory - Evidence Against Adam is God Interpretation
• Adam-God theory - No More Clarification by Young
• Adam-God theory - Modern Interpretations
• Adam-God theory - Denounced as False Doctrine
• Adam-God theory - Controversy Arises Again
• Adam-God theory - Apologetics revisited
• Adam-God theory - Scholarly Conclusions
• Adam-God theory - Who Knows...
• Adam-God theory - Other Latter Day Saint Sects Elaboration of the Teaching
• Adam-God theory - Apostolic United Brethren
• Adam-God theory - FLDS
• Adam-God theory - School of the Prophets brotherhood
• Adam-God theory - Others

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The Lord’s Prayer ("Our Father Who Art in Heaven...") is the best known and most popular prayer of Christians. Jesus taught his disciples this prayer when they asked him how to pray.

Analysing The Lord’s Prayer, Gerhard Ebeling says that " Abba father", the words Jesus used to call on God, signify "My father" or "our father", which is an invocation we can use when all words fail, when we become speechless. We can approach God in the familiar confident way a child approaches a loving parent.

(See also: Lord’s Prayer, God and Religion, Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

Father Divine (c. 1880 – September 10, 1965), was an African-American spiritual leader from about 1907 until his death. His full self-given name was Reverend General Jealous Divine, and he was also known as "the Messenger" and George Baker early in his life. He founded the International Peace Mission movement, formulated its doctrine, and oversaw its growth from a small and predominantly black congr ...

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• Father Divine - Early life and original name
• Father Divine - Preaching as God: 1912-1965
• Father Divine - In the South: 1912-1914
• Father Divine - Brooklyn and marriage to Peninniah: 1914-1919
• Father Divine - Sayville New York: 1919-1931
• Father Divine - Sayville arrests trial notoriety and prison: 1931-1932
• Father Divine - Harlem: 1932-1942
• Father Divine - Pennsylvania: 1942-death
• Father Divine - Physical characteristics and preaching style
• Father Divine - Civil rights legacy
• Father Divine - Religious legacy

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Osiris (Greek language, also Usiris; the Egyptian language name is variously transliterated Asar, Aser, Ausar, or Ausare) is the Egyptian God of death and the underworld. The origin of Osiris' name is a mystery, which formes an obstacle to knowing the pronunciation of its hieroglyphic form. The majority of current thinking is that the Egyptian name is pronounced aser where the a is the letter ayin (i.e. a short 'a' pronounced from the back of the throat as if swallowing).< ...

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• Osiris - Early Mythology
• Osiris - God of the Dead
• Osiris - Centipede
• Osiris - Father of Anubis
• Osiris - Father of Horus
• Osiris - Ram God
• Osiris - Mystery religion
• Osiris - Rituals
• Osiris - Serapis
• Osiris - Destruction
• Osiris - Osiris in popular culture

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This entry discusses how the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam deal with God and gender. It includes both traditional religious views, and modern views of these faiths, especially as to how modern feminism has influenced the theology of these religions. For the discussion of the topic in Hinduism, see Hindu views on God and gender. Monotheists hold a belief in one God as a fundamental religious principle. In Judaism and Islam, God is believed to be sexless, but has been traditionally referr ...

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• God and gender - God in the Hebrew Bible
• God and gender - Jewish views of God and gender
• God and gender - Christian views of God and gender
• God and gender - Mormon views
• God and gender - Translating the names of God into English
• God and gender - Third person pronouns: He She or It?
• God and gender - Mankind and Humankind
• God and gender - New translation solutions
• God and gender - Criticism of feminine reconstructions of theology
• God and gender - Bibliography

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Jehovah (also sometimes spelled Yehovah) is the name of the God of the Old Testament as commonly transliterated in English from the Masoretic Hebrew text. Etymologically, it is a third person singular, imperfect, probably the causative form of the verb hawah (or hayah), signifying "to be." The word Jehovah consists of the consonants JHVH or JHWH (more accurately YHWH or YHVH), with the vowels of a separate word, Adonai (Lord). What its original vowels were is a matter of speculation, as an interpretation of such texts as Exodus ...

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• Jehovah - Jehovah is an 18th century English translation of יְהֹוָה [Hebrew word #3068]
• Jehovah - Encyclopedia Britannica of 1910-1911’s Case against Jehovah
• Jehovah - Qeri-Perpetuum [a.k.a.Qere Perpetuum]
• Jehovah - KJVO Christians defend the vowel points of יְהֹוָה and the name Jehovah
• Jehovah - Jehovah's Witnesses and the English rendering of the name Jehovah
• Jehovah - יְהֹוָה is found only 44 times in the Leningrad Codex of 1008-1010 A.D.
• Jehovah - Latin Translations of יְהֹוָה from 1278 A.D. to 1518 A.D.
• Jehovah - English Translations of יְהֹוָה from 1530 A.D. to 1890 A.D.
• Jehovah - Translations of YHWH found in writings of the Greek Fathers
• Jehovah - Articles that defend the Name Jehovah
• Jehovah - Articles that critique the Name Jehovah
• Jehovah - Footnotes
• Jehovah - Technical note

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This entry discusses how the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam deal with God and gender. It includes both traditional religious views, and modern views of these faiths, especially as to how modern feminism has influenced the theology of these religions. Monotheists hold a belief in one God as a fundamental religious principle. In Judaism and Islam, God is believed to be sexless, but has been traditionally referred to using male grammatical gender. In Christianity, God is ...

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• Abrahamic religions on God and gender - God in Islam Arabic Quran
• Abrahamic religions on God and gender - God in the Hebrew Bible
• Abrahamic religions on God and gender - Jewish views of God and gender
• Abrahamic religions on God and gender - Christian views of God and gender
• Abrahamic religions on God and gender - Mormon views
• Abrahamic religions on God and gender - Translating the names of God into English
• Abrahamic religions on God and gender - Third person pronouns: He She or It?
• Abrahamic religions on God and gender - Mankind and Humankind
• Abrahamic religions on God and gender - New translation solutions
• Abrahamic religions on God and gender - Criticism of feminine reconstructions of theology
• Abrahamic religions on God and gender - Bibliography

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Goddess worship is a general description for the veneration of a female Goddess or goddesses. Many New Age Goddess devotees prefer the term goddess spirituality, avoiding the term "worship" for a faith that does not distance the Divine into a remote, hierarchical separation. Goddess veneration may be also used instead of "worship", as it can imply respect and intimacy without undue deference. In such contexts, "spirituality" is often preferred to "religion" because major organised religions have not typically nurtured go ...

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• Goddess worship - Examples of goddess worship

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A mother goddess is a goddess portrayed as the Earth Mother who serves as a general fertility deity, the bountiful embodiment of the earth. From the elegant snake-offering goddess figures of Knossos to the rock-cut images of Cybele, to Dione ("the Goddess") who was invoked at Dodona, along with Zeus, until late Classical times, it is sometimes too facile to class all archaic female goddesses as manifestations of the mother goddess. Archaeologists tend to avoid such theories in interpreting sites and material remains and sometim ...

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• Mother goddess - Matriarchy and goddess history
• Mother goddess - Sumerian Mesopotamian and Greek goddesses
• Mother goddess - Celtic goddesses
• Mother goddess - Norse goddesses
• Mother goddess - Olympian goddesses
• Mother goddess - Hinduism
• Mother goddess - Shaktism
• Mother goddess - Mother goddess worship in Catholicism
• Mother goddess - Neopaganism

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In Christianity, Patripassianism is the belief that God the Father and Son are simply different aspects of God. The implication of this belief is that God the Father suffered on the cross. Patripassianism is closely related to Sabellianism. See also. Heresy Nontrinitarianism Trinitarianism Trinity ...

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Monarchianism, or Monarchism as it is sometimes called, is a set of beliefs that emphasize God as being one, that God is the single and only ruler. This emphasis conflicted with the doctrine of the Trinity, of God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Models of resolving the tension between the two principles in favour of God's oneness were proposed in the 2nd century, but rejected as heretical by the Church. Monarchianism in-and-of itself is not a complete theory of the relation of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, bu ...

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In Yorùbá mythology, Olorun is the Sky Father (though occasionally androgynous or female), and a god of peace, purity and harmony. He is strongly associated with the color white, and controls everything that is white, such as bones, the brain, and clouds. He is the father of Odudua and Obatala. Olorun - Other names. Ogus Olorum Yansan Categories: Peace gods | Sky and weather gods | ...

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• Olorun - Other names

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Consubstantial is a term used in orthodox Christian theology. Derived from Greek, it describes the relationship between the three Divine Persons of the Christian Trinity and conotes that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are "of the same substance" (or "of one essence" or "of one Being") in that the Son is "generated" ("born" or "begotten") "before all ages" or "eternally" of the Father's own Be

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Vidfinn was, in Norse mythology, the father of Hjuki and Bil. Hjuki and Bil were sent by their father to Byrgir a mead-fountain, to fetch some mead. The god of the moon kidnapped them. They can be seen (along with their cask and pole) on the face of the moon (craters). This story may be the source of the nursery rhyme called Jack and Jill. In various sources the name of the moon god vary, Mani ...

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• Vidfinn - External link

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The phrase personal God is religious term used far more often by laypeople than by theologians due to its numerous connotations. Personal God - Definitions. The broadest definition of this term is a God who is a personal being, i.e. a being with a personality, including the capacity to reason and feel love. In the case of the Christian belief in the Trinity, God is a personal being in manifested in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This view is intended to challenge the concep ...

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• Personal God - Definitions
• Personal God - Past and Present Views

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