Adelophagi (from the Greek terms Adelos = secretly, and phago = I eat) were a sect mentioned by the anonymous author known as Praedestinatus. They pretended that a Christian ought to conceal himself from other men to take his nourishment, imagining that thus he imitated the Prophets, and basing their view on certain passages of Scripture. The author of Praedestinatus said this was their only error, but Philastrius intimates that they also rejected the divinity of the Holy Ghost. They seem to have flourished in the latter part of the fourth century. Nutrition is interpreted as the study of the organic process by which an organism assimilates and uses food and liquids for normal functioning, growth and maintenance and to maintain the balance between health and disease. ... In religion, a prophet (or prophetess) is a person who has directly encountered the numinous or the divine and serves as an intermediary with humanity. ... Many religions and spiritual movements hold certain written texts (or series of spoken legends not traditionally written down) to be sacred. ... St. ... Divinity has a number of related uses in the field of religious belief and study. ... The Holy Spirit, from the Christian viewpoint, while related to Gods will, is not Gods will personified. ...

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