Aspect (religion) Brahman. In Sikhism, there are three distinct aspects: God as deity; God in relation to creation; and God in relation to man. Aspect (religion) Aspect is a term used across several religions and in theology to describe a particular manifestation or conception of a deity or other divine being. Depending on the religion, these might be disjoint or overlapping parts, or methods of perceiving or conceptualizing the deity in a particular context. In the Bahá'í Faith, this might be conceived as a Manifestation of God. In Christianity, the concept of the Trinity views God as 3 distinct parts, whereas Sabellianism
Religion in China which were "religions of the fathers", that is, patriarchal religions, whereas Chinese religion was not only "a patriarchal religion but also an ancestral religion". Israel believed in the "God of its fathers, but not its divinised fathers". Among the ancient Chinese, the God of the Zhou dynasty appeared to have been an ancestor of the ruling house. "The belief in Tian (Heaven) as the great ancestral spirit differed from the Judeo-Christian, and later Islamic belief in a creator God". Early Christianity's Church Fathers pointed out that the First Commandment injunction, "thou shalt have no other gods before me", reserved all