In the Old Testament, God places Adam in the Garden of Eden and has him name the animals, an act of a parent to a child.
Mr Solzhenitsyn is an old-fashioned, God-fearing romantic: anti-industrial, anti-materialist, anti-Enlightenment, and against what he sees as the deadening excesses of rationalism.
It is also the very meaning of the name of God in the Old Testament.
In that sense, Mingus, for whom spirituality was another recurring theme, was like the God of the Old Testament: He wanted to be loved as well as feared.
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And so, as I pondered and worried and accomplished nothing, the winter blew in with a wild snow that scoured the streets and roared through my meagre shelter like the vengeful God of the Old Testament.
Ne'emad's neighbor, a 12-year-old girl, told reporters that there but by the grace of God both she and her six-year-old brother would have also been attacked.
And I make a very good salary, but just going through caring for my mother the last year and a half, and before that, my father, who, thank God, lived to ripe old ages -- it was -- it's not easy.
It was old people playing chess and waiting to see God, and it was also the deadliest city in the country.
It is an entirely different thing to sit with a 45-year-old mother who is dying and asking how God could be doing this to her.
Thank god the 4-year-old sister got there in time.
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God willing, they will grow old.
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If God lets me live to be an old man, I will never forget what Buddy MacKay said today from this platform when he could have said nothing.
"Then it comes out, " says the 30-year-old Kimjacobs: They wonder if they could enlist God's support in picking hot start-ups, or at the very least get the Creator to lay off the vengeance.
Operation Compassion was founded as an arm of the Church of God, a 127-year-old pentecostal Christian denomination also based in Cleveland, with 1 million members in the United States and 7 million around the world.
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"Fortunately, I thank God, I saved my 15-year-old son, " said Fehmije Haxhiolli, who escaped into Albania with an extend family of 30.
Not long after the article appeared dubbing Siu the God of Gamblers, his twenty-year-old son received a series of anonymous threatening phone calls.
When they were visited from the Most High God with the death of their 16-year-old son, they did not humble themselves before His mighty hand.
Then the story kind of got even funnier because were planning on adopting a baby, and God introduced us to a 12- and six-year-old that we're adopting.
As well as evoking a God of Love rather than a stern God of Judgment, this inexhaustible painting is packed with references to the old Scriptures and the victory of the new faith, Christianity.
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Thirty-four-year-old Avalon Latrafuse(ph) says he's still alive by the grace of God.
The 37-year-old is already a household name in India and, thanks to the book, The God of Small Things, she is now well on the way to becoming the talk of the chattering classes in the West.
As the old prioress, Madame de Croissy, lies writhing on her deathbed, she cries out that God has forsaken her and the Carmelite order.
"When it looks like the sun isn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds, " sung the 74-year-old, hosted onto the stage by Rastafarian poet Benjamin Zephaniah.
But as readers of the Old Testament know, Jonah emerges from the whale a changed man, redeemed and willing to carry on God's work.
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Ironically, what seems to be missing from the God Species more than anything else is the spirit of urgency, intensity and personal outrage of old-school, dyed-in-the-wool environmentalism.
The idea that materialism "can cure men of the fear of God and the fear of death, " as Dr. Kass puts it, is at least as old as ancient Greece.
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