Sentences with phrase «divine retribution»

Fear of divine retribution is not a very noble basis for faith.

this is in divine retribution for the extrajudicial horror they visited upon Israel.

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.

He remains sure that his son will judge him for his indecisiveness and even interprets his increasing loss of memory as divine retribution.

Now, ancient technology born of a twisted mind sets in motion a chain of events designed to bring divine retribution down upon mankind.

A lot of posts directed towards the atheists are of a violent nature: Christians are wishing for divine retribution at this rally in the form of lightning, followed by an eternity of suffering in a place called Hell.

We see the God who sends divine retribution our way because of our sin or supposed sin.

Representative of such cases are the household codes of the Epistles (for example, Col. 3: 18 - 4: 1), the pleas for divine retribution against enemies (for example, Ps.

It is a lesson about divine providence on the righteous and divine retribution on the wicked.

Some religious leaders invoke divine retribution whenever there is a crisis, but we shouldn't just accept this as a natural reaction, argue two theologians

When looking through the worlds major religions, many examples of attempts at social control can be seen — in Christianity, the ten commandments and the teachings of jesus can be viewed as attempts to control through fear i.e. fear of divine retribution should an individual into «godlessness».

In this exhibition, three years in the making, Whitmore grapples with iconoclast Andreas Karlstadt's anguish of believing paradoxically that religious iconography is blasphemous and should be destroyed while simultaneously fearing divine retribution for their destruction.

Lincoln's interpretation of suffering as divine retribution, a familiar theme in Protestant sermons since Puritan times, was his attempt to find meaning in the bloodshed.

The Egyptians should not have oppressed the Hebrews; the hard labor of the slaves raised a cry to heaven which in turn brought divine retribution in the plagues and the incidents of the exodus.

I may as well not take the oath, because, since I don't believe in that god or any divine retribution for breaking an oath... I would be free to violate it from a religious perspective (but not an ethical one).

The notion that AIDS is deserved - that it is divine retribution for homosexual behavior - must be categorically rejected.

Here, at the very edge of the stretched fulfillment, it is as if Jesus knows that by asking people to let go of the notion of a divine retribution, he leaves them with two options — to trust in the goodness of the One coming in or be locked in scandal at the collapse of partisan goodness and the constant need to build it up again.

(a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads;

On Tuesday, the governor of Tokyo apologized for saying the earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands of Japanese were divine retribution for national egoism.

Here's a list of natural and man - made calamities that have been attributed to divine retribution for human transgression.

(a) Christianity tells people not only what they should believe, but what they MUST believe under threat of «burning in hell» or other of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them;

(a) Catholicism tells people not only what they should believe, but what they MUST believe under threat of «burning in hell» or other of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them;

(a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they must believe under threat of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them;

David Silvester caused a media storm in January by suggesting in a letter to the Henley Standard that Britain's inclement weather was divine retribution for making gay marriage legal.

(a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they MUST believe under threat of «burning in hell» or other of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them;

Frankly, I consider fear of divine retribution a very poor reason to be moral.

(a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them;

Friends told Hans Luther that this was divine retribution: he relented sufficiently so as not absolutely to oppose Martins formal entry into the Augustinian Order.

Jewish theology claims to explain all the fortunes of life, happiness as well as suffering, by reference to divine retribution.

And it's neither bad luck nor divine retribution for his atrocious nature that Mayweather struggles to read.

Its emotional impact is shaped by the unique perspective of the narrator - a typical teenager telling the tale out of her own youthful concerns (having fun, her uncertain future), combining her beliefs about the dual contradictory nature of humanity («you just got half - devil and half - angel in ya»), and imaginative and fearsome fantasies of religious judgment and divine retribution (the flaming end of the world, and the Devil's presence on Earth).

As emblems of sexual tension, divine retribution, meaningless chaos, metaphysical inversion, and aching human guilt, his attacking birds acquire a metaphorical complexity and slipperiness worthy of Melville.

But, I didn't want to get in to torrent linking on the forums for fear of divine retribution.

Writhing flesh, divine retribution and world class portraiture: Royal Academy Rubens show is one of the best exhibitions in London.

Today, in our secular, modern multi-cultural Canadian society, the fear of divine retribution may seem a quaint anachronism, if not a complete irrelevancy.

The historic rationale was that the fear of divine retribution would focus one's mind and heart on telling the truth.