Quotes About Divine

It took seconds for the deluge to wipe the battlefield clean. A few seconds more, and the city was completely enveloped. The water smothered everything that breathed. It dissolved man-made structures as if they were sand castles. The torrential wave made its way across the plain, extinguishing everything in its path. All flesh that moved on the land died, everything in whose nostrils was the breath of life died. Elohim blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground.

A major premise of my fictional novel Noah Primeval is that the gods of the ancient world were real spiritual beings with supernatural powers. Thus, the mythical literature and artistic engravings of the gods that have been uncovered by Mesopotamian archeology reflect a certain amount of factual reality. The twist is that these gods are actually fallen divine angelic beings called "Sons of God" (Bene Elohim) in the Bible.

These Sons of God had rebelled against God's divine council in heaven and came to earth in order to corrupt God's creation and deceive mankind into worshipping them in place of the real God. While this is not polytheism, neither is it absolute monotheism. It is Biblical theism, which will become clear shortly.

Elohim worked in mysterious ways.

Isaiah speaking seven hundred years before their own time. Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. "Immanuel" meant "God with us.

Uriel, Gabriel, Remiel, Saraqael and Raguel faced the gods. Ba'al gave a war cry and launched into the three angels nearest him with furious swinging. They blocked with their weapons. But he was strong, very strong. He pushed them off balance. Behind them, The Ob vomited a stream of black bile. The third entity left her. She became drenched in sweat as if being roasted in flames. Another scream pierced everyone's ears, as the fourth left its host.

The heavenly host presented themselves around this throne, the bene ha Elohim, or Sons of God, ten thousand times ten thousand of his holy ones, the divine council. Their presence flashed like lightning that would burn out the eyes of any human being in the flesh.

understanding Leviathan in its ancient Near Eastern (ANE) and Biblical covenantal background. In ANE religious mythologies, the sea and the sea dragon were symbols of chaos that had to be overcome to bring order to the universe, or more exactly, the political world order of the myth's originating culture. Some scholars call this battle Chaoskampf—the divine struggle to create order out of chaos.

In the heavens above the waters, in the very divine council of Yahweh Elohim, the Bene ha Elohim, the Sons of God, had returned to surround his chariot again with glory and praise. The trisagion echoed forth, "Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh Elohim Almighty. Who was and is and is to come!" Their voices were like the sound of many waters. The Cherubim that upheld the throne chariot extended their many wings and Yahweh Elohim took his seat as the Ancient of Days.

Then the lightning struck. A massive display of multiple lightning strikes painted the sky with a frightening brush. It lit the combustible elements in the whirlwind. A rainstorm of fire and brimstone from heaven engulfed the four cities of the plain in a furnace of sulfurous flames. Nothing survived.

not a single scrap of actual historical or archeological evidence for this theorizing, it also reeks of modern imperialism by projecting stupidity onto the writers of some of the most intelligent and poetic literature in history. Such arrogance is easily dismissed when one studies the ancient cultural context of divine names as expressing character traits related to specific situations.

Using St. Paul's image of the earthen vessel, we could say that Jesus' vessel is divine; mine, on the other hand, is earthen and is filled with a divine treasure (2 Cor. 4:7). This is the meaning of grace in Christian life. It has to do with the experience of gratuitousness. Our Godliness is given to us as a free gift.3

For Eckhart, this is who God is, and this is who we are in God. If God is love, as the First Letter of John holds (1 John 4:8), then love is God, and our loving is God loving. Through love we are brought into the loving that is God. Says Eckhart, "Likeness and love raise, lead and convey the soul into the prime source of the one, that is, the Father of all things in heaven and earth."42

we are all truly loved in ways that we cannot imagine on this physical plane.

Como decían los místicos cristianos, no se trata de seres humanos que tienen una experiencia espiritual, sino de seres espirituales que tienen una experiencia humana.

God gave me these hands for a reason! With great powers come great handjobs!

When we ignore those in need and are complicit in others' imprisonment, we cut ourselves off from our shared humanity. You may not notice it at first—or ever—but you are cut off from the source of life. The divine is found in each and every person. Each and every person! We must all be connected to each other in order to be connected to the source of life.

Sleep now, Alone in the sleeves of grief, Listening to clothes falling And your flesh touching God;

Only that perhaps behind our cursory reasons for breaking into smaller and smaller units, we are ultimately fulfilling the will of God for us.

28So we are convinced that every detail of our lives is continually woven together to fit into God's perfect plan of bringing good into our lives, for we are his lovers who have been called to fulfill his designed purpose.

doubt God's mighty power to work in you and accomplish all this. He will achieve infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream, and exceed your wildest imagination! He will outdo them all, for His miraculous power constantly energizes you!

The Divine Kiss is metaphor that speaks of sacred intimacy with Jesus Christ. The most powerful gift God can to the human spirit is His "kiss." Kisses from God impart the deepest things that could ever be given to the human spirit. This "kiss" is the answer of why we are on the earth. The Lord kissed Adam and he became a living soul and we come alive again by this kiss of God.

20One skilled in business discovers prosperity, but the one who trusts in God is blessed beyond belief!

22True enrichment comes from the blessing of the Lord, with rest and contentmentt in knowing that it all comes from him.