Sentences with phrase «authority over the nature»

Many claim Jesus did this just to prove his divinity and authority over nature.

Leviathan is titled after the Thomas Hobbes book; Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, which engages theories surrounding the origins of societal structures and their authority over the nature of man.

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Underlying this erroneous tendency, as Faith has pointed out many times over the last forty years, is the implicit or explicit denial of the transcendence of God, the Divinity of Christ, the historical objectivity of revelation and the authority of the Church in matters of faith and morals, and also the denial of the spiritual soul as a principle of existence that is distinct from yet integrates the material within the unity of our human nature.

• Epistemology or knowledge: God has revealed, through Scripture and nature, that males are to hold authority over women the whole of their life.

In other words, because the NALC is not in communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC)-- churches they broke away from over significant theological differences regarding the nature of Scriptural authority — the LWF is rejecting the NALC's application.

Jesus has revealed that he has authority over demons, sickness, nature, sin, and cultural stigmas.

Criminals on the lam took refuge in a church (sometimes they had to hole up in a certain room inside the church, or even sit on a specific stool) and from there, had 40 days to weigh their options before the church turned them back over to authorities of the non-religious nature.

God is: the supreme or ultimate reality, perfect in power wisdom and goodness — Merriam Webster the creator and ruler of the universe, the source of all moral authority, superhuman being or spirit worshiped as having power over nature — Oxford Dictionary the one Supreme Being the creator and ruler of the universe — Dictionary.com

The ecclesiastical trial of Father William Wendt in Washington, D.C., over the issue of women's orders symbolized that once the nature of authority is challenged, even in church governance, the very basis of traditional Christian thought and practice crumbles.

These children will be combative in nature towards their parents and any authority the parents try to assert over the child.

YHVH is the Ruling Authority of the day, or Nature Herself, approving of Abel's animal products, ``... and the fat thereof» (YHVH's words in Gen4) over Cain's products of the fields.

As stated by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which is the world's main authority on the conservation status of species, the northern elephant seal has recovered from near extinction and population growth and is expected to continue over the coming decades.

The title of this work refers to the solitary nature of the artist's search for a form of transcendence, and it may also refer to Kiefer's isolation from his Catholic upbringing and its presumption of authority over heaven and earth.

During and after working hours, both on and off the premises and with the actual knowledge of his peers and superiors, he used and continues to use his position of power and authority over vulnerable, economically - dependent and emotionally vulnerable subordinates to seduce or compel, as circumstances might warrant, intimate sexual relations of a conventional as well as deviate nature.

if you have evidence of wrongdoing by CREA or and Board that is illegal in nature you should immediately take it to the authorities who would have governance over them, otherwise you might be complicit.