Sentences with phrase «divine decree»
The phrase "divine decree" refers to a decision made by a higher power, usually God or a deity. It suggests that the decision is of an ultimate and unquestionable nature, as it comes from a higher source. Full definition
Of all the Western races, that can read skillfully the providence of God, or can read it at all who can hesitate in affirming that the signs of divine decree point to this land of ours which is gathering to itself the races which must take the lead in the final conflicts of Christianity for possession of the world?
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What marks the more recent literature as distinctive is not its concern with corporeal thinness and good health per se but the apparent willingness of authors to accept, ardently and without flinching, the somatic standards of the wider culture and convert them into divine decree.
First, we must remember that in Scripture, and especially in Pauline theology, Jesus Christ is the ultimate elect one, and individual people become elect, not through an eternal divine decree from God, but by joining with Christ by faith.
Until some time around 1500 - 1000 BC, peoples as diverse as the Egyptians, Sumerians, Babylonians, Indo - Iranians, Canaanites and pre-exilic Israelites all had myths implying that, in the beginning, the world had been organized and set in order by immutable divine decrees, but that this order was continually under threat from evil and destructive forces.
If Catholics run the risk of resolving the divine / human paradox in favor of human free will (Co-Redemptrix), Protestants run the danger of resolving the paradox in favor of divine decree (double predestination — man is a zero).
On worldly matters, priests should follow the laws of the emperor installed by divine decree, while on divine matters the emperor should submit to the priest.
-- the Emperor is not a demi - god that has always righteous and divine decrees — this is the failure of the Moses Model of Leadership held by the Calvary Chapels and Vineyards;
All of creation is used by God to bring Jonah into obedience to God's divine decree.»
But this divine decree is not set in stone; should the king mend his ways, things will turn out more favorably.
By divine decree he can harden hearts to reject his will.
, it must be confidently defended against a11 the disapproving frowns of «ethical» existences, though without claiming for it the necessitas of a divine decree, but only the necessitas of freedom.
Jesus and Mary were also actualised in the fallen state according to the divine decree of original unity, but unlike us, are always immaculate in the totality of their bodies and souls.
In Romans 8, Paul is not laying out some sort of mysterious outworking of God's divine decree, but is describing in great detail the height, breadth, width, and depth of God's love for His people.
In general, our ruling class no longer believes in those divine decrees of which human decrees are but a hint or shadow, and neither does a large and growing part of the population.
Onan's refusal to impregnate his widowed sister - in - law, a refusal expressed in his deliberate withdrawal before ejaculation, was interpreted by the biblical writer as so serious a violation of divine decree that Onan was killed by Yahweh.
He does not believe in divine retribution, therefore he can also declare his own morality contrary to what the divine may decree simply because he believes there is no divine decree.