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God the Sustainer is the conception of God who sustains and upholds everything in existence.
Al Qayyum, sometimes rendered "The Sustainer" is one of the 99 Names of God in Islam.
"Creator, Sustainer, Redeemer" is reportedly a "common phrase" in Protestantism in the United States, specifically in Baptist liturgy.[1]
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Thomas J. Scirghi, An Examination of the Problems of Inclusive Language in the Trinitarian Formula of Baptism (2000), p. 168.
John Stanford Holme, The Baptist Hymn and Tune Book (1858), 822, 825, 849.
GodtheSustainer is the conception of God who sustains and upholds everything in existence. Al Qayyum, sometimes rendered "TheSustainer" is one of the...
and so is seen as the creator, sustainer, and ruler of the universe. God is often thought of as incorporeal and independent of the material creation,...
Trinitarianism. Chapter 112 of the Quran states: Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “He is God—One ˹and Indivisible˺; God—theSustainer ˹needed by all˺. He has never had...
Islam, God (Arabic: ٱللَّٰه, romanized: Allāh, contraction of ٱلْإِلَٰه al-’Ilāh, lit. 'thegod') is seen as the creator and sustainer of the universe...
The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation from God. It is organized in...
consider the following additional attributes: Creator being the source of all that composes his creation ("creatio ex nihilo") and thesustainer of what...
The existence of God is a subject of debate in theology and the philosophy of religion. A wide variety of arguments for and against the existence of God...
God has been conceived in a variety of ways. Traditionally, Judaism holds that Yahweh—that is, thegod of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob/Israel, and the national...
some names of God so holy that, once written, they should not be erased: יהוה (YHWH), אֲדֹנָי (Adonai transl. my Lord[s]), אֵל (El transl. God), אֱלֹהִים...
pertains to the acceptance of God, gods, or deities, as not only transcendent or above the natural world, but also willing and able to interact with the natural...
herself the "Sustainer of Heavenly Principles". She separates the twins, sealing the playable character away for five hundred years. When the sealed sibling...
monotheism, which asserts the existence of only one god, and henotheism, a religious system in which the believer worships one god while accepting that others...
(Allāh) is all-powerful and all-knowing, the Creator, Sustainer, Ordainer and Judge of the universe. God in Islam is strictly singular (tawhid) unique (wahid)...
all-knowing creator, sustainer, ordainer, and judge of the universe. Islam puts a heavy emphasis on the conceptualization of God as strictly singular...
"God of the gaps" is a theological concept that emerged in the 19th century and revolves around the idea that gaps in scientific understanding are regarded...
of God's immeasurable love for us. However, the Baháʼí teachings compare the human heart to a mirror, which, if turned away from the light of the sun...
or god is a supernatural being considered to be sacred and worthy of worship due to having authority over the universe, nature or human life. The Oxford...
title for God in the Persian language. Its literal meaning is sustainer, a name metaphorically and attributively used for Khuda or God. The word has Persian...
of God in most Christian churches, which defines one God existing in three coequal, coeternal, consubstantial divine persons: Godthe Father, Godthe Son...
is the mode by which all things are derived from the first reality, or principle. All things are derived from the first reality or perfect God by steps...
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. Friedrich...
The gender of God can be viewed as a literal or as an allegorical aspect of a deity. In polytheistic religions, gods often have genders which would enable...
Providentialism Psychophysical parallelism Theological determinism GodtheSustainer Steven Nadler, 'The Occasionalism of Louis de la Forge', in Nadler (ed.), Causation...
determined by God, based on their actions and beliefs during life. In contrast, in systems of reincarnation, such as those in the Indian religions, the nature...
Tantric Shaivism, the pair of Shiva and Shakti are the ultimate principle (with the goddess representing the active, creative power of God). Meanwhile, in...
The belief that God became the Universe is a theological doctrine that has been developed several times historically, and holds that the creator of the...
are finite, and if God is the Creator of all beings, God cannot logically be finite since a finite being cannot be thesustainer of an infinite variety...