Sentences with phrase «divinely ordained»

«Uncle Rulon,» as he is known to his followers, traces his divinely ordained leadership in an unbroken chain that leads directly back to Joseph Smith himself.

[35] The virtues or values in question are fully formed, and, in the minds of many character education proponents, divinely ordained.

He realizes that his ballfield has been divinely ordained to give a second chance to people who have sacrificed certain valuable aspects of their lives.

I use my gifts as a Spirit guided empath to assist you in discovery, exercising, and developing your own spiritual gifts and to achieve appreciation for who Spirit created you to be; to pursue realization of your Divinely Ordained Birth Right Life potential.

Do you feel it's an improvement that many theists are backing away from Young Earth creationism, and instead viewing evolution as a divinely ordained process?

During the later ages of classical theory, social classes were often thought to be divinely ordained.

This, I argue, is what is radical about liberalism's secularism: that it is democratic — that it locates its legitimacy in the will of the people, not in extra-political, divinely ordained or philosophically grounded authority.

What is divinely ordained is that each person — male or female or otherwise — be given both the freedom and the encouragement of the Christian community to use whatever gifts the Spirit has bestowed on them to build up the body of Christ.

On the one hand, it is our divinely ordained destiny to «populate the earth and subdue it.»

Orthodoxy began to think of itself as divinely ordained, rather than as part of a larger historical conversation about the meaning of Jesus.

It is not something divinely ordained.

Likewise, the Bible tacitly supports democracy by holding that although government is divinely ordained neither kings nor their policies have automatic divine sanction.

It is the extension of it in India in the idea and practice of the churches in the Indian village and city that challenged absolutising the traditional casteist, sexist and other structures of Indian society as divinely ordained.

Australian economist and ecological thinker H. C. Coombs (1990) has said: «There is nothing divinely ordained about the economic system: it is the product of human ingenuity, effort and capacity to organize and, therefore, can be properly questioned, criticized and, if a better alternative exist, rejected» (p. 143).

Globalization is being portrayed as an inexorable and almost divinely ordained process.

It tends to give society the assurance that its form of organization and its customs are divinely ordained, that it enjoys the special protection and favor of God, that it is a chosen people.

Rather, the medievals never wavered in grounding religion in divinely ordained law.

(2) The second act is to create a consciousness, that the present form of crisis has evolved from human actions and is not divinely ordained.

It is the conviction that they possess a knowledge of absolute truth of which they have become the divinely ordained guardians.

But they came to see Boston as the new Jerusalem, a divinely ordained «city upon a hill,» a phrase Massachusetts Bay Colony founder John Winthrop used in a sermon at sea en route from England in 1630.

St. Maximus and Suffering in Christ It is now clear that, while accepting the divinely ordained hierarchy as an essential order of the transmission of Christ's grace, Maximus also transforms this hierarchy into models of personal participation in the power of grace.

v. 16) Thus the death and resurrection of Christ are interpreted as the divinely ordained crisis in history through which old things passed away and the new order came into being.

Yes, God even sent signs and miracles to Israel when they slaughtered the Canaanites showing that such actions were righteous and divinely ordained.»

The corporate life which was an ideal of the Middle Ages, with its combination of the recognition of divinely ordained authority and the voice of the people, might have avoided both the extremes of unregulated absolutism on the one hand and unchecked democracy with its mass hysteria and demagogy on the other.

This misses the critical point that he is developing a teaching on divorce - and - remarriage based on divinely ordained gender binaries.

The regulations in Leviticus are important not because they serve a pragmatic purpose but because they are divinely ordained.

One who violates these boundaries earns punishment, but that punishment is a consequence of overstepping divinely ordained bounds, not of encountering an overwhelming energy field.

If you believe Jesus is going to settle the oppressors» hash then, what is your issue with seeking first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness now, as a matter of divinely ordained realized eschatology?

What is morally right to do is so because God wills it or because it is consistent with the divinely ordained structure of the world.

The biblical description of that divinely ordained self - forgetfulness is to be found in the following questions of the «sheep» at the Final Judgment.

Shias believe that, in accordance with the command of God, Muhammad divinely ordained his cousin and son - in - law Ali to be the next caliph, making Ali and his direct descendants Muhammad's successors.

The signatories declared themselves to be in solidarity in their unequivocal support of the dignity and right to life of every human person, marriage between a man and a woman as divinely ordained and the foundation of civil society, and religious liberty as an essential component of human freedom.

Writing early in the second century CE, Clement of Rome identified God as the «Master of the universe» (1 Clement 8:2) who oversees without dissension or opposition the divinely ordained orderliness of all that transpires in creation (20:1 — 12).

We accept this pattern of human sexuality as a foundation for human society, and we celebrate the healthy relationships of mutual service that embody it» above all, the divinely ordained covenant of marriage between one man and one woman prepared to bear and rear each succeeding generation of children.

I don't believe in fatalism (not even the divinely ordained kind), and so always recommend wearing seat belts and going to doctors when sick.

Does it come down a question of free will or is all divinely ordained?

We may even disagree over whether the establishment of the state in 1948 was just or justly done, never mind divinely ordained.

«Yes,» counters the one who believes God divinely ordains everything.

Not exact matches

Mozart was divinely destined to die young, an impossible prodigy appearing and vanishing like a flash of lightning crossing the heavens, while it was ordained from everlasting that Haydn should enjoy a serene longevity in which to unfold his genius; Keats grown old would have been a drastic error of taste on the part of providence, while it was absolutely necessary that Wordsworth begin as a «lyrical» radical but end up a withered Tory sage penning sonorous banalities.

First, He makes this point to underscore that marriage, by its very nature, is a divinely - ordained institution — that the originator of marriage is the Creator Himself.

As such it is more than the aggregate of its members but is a divinely - ordained vessel bearing the Gospel to the world and especially to those who are in Christ.

In contemporary Israel, where land is running out, asphalt is eating up the landscape, the air is thick with smog and gas isn't getting any cheaper, a day like this is an absolute necessity, reminding us all that the car's dominance of our living space is not a divinely - ordained decree, but a conscious decision that we have made - and that we can decide otherwise if we wish.