Sentences with phrase «electing hand of god»
However, Augustine had some extremely valid insights into the Pauline insistence on our radical dependence on grace, and unlike most of his Catholic predecessors Augustine caught something of the Pauline sense that everything is finally held in the electing hand of God: «For God has consigned all men to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all» (Rom.
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And these followers make a large demographic of political votes in a country that loves to start wars and elect politicians who will be «guided by the hand of god»... excuse me as I am affected by these people... their practices cab affect me
It is a verb that means to have intimate knowledge beforehand of those whom God elected to salvation and it goes hand in hand with the word «predestination.»
The tension that Israel knew throughout her life as a nation between faith in an electing, acting, covenanting God on the one hand, and on the other the rational improbability, if not absurdity, of the divine promises implicit in her faith; the conflict between the divine demand to trust and the human doubt; the incongruity between divine promise for the nation and the incredible historical odds against fulfillment — all of this Israel is mindful of in the shaping of the stories, and in the reading and cherishing of the stories.
If she is indeed a woman of faith that believes God's hand is in everything that happens for this country (as if God may have a favorite country), then it follows logically that she accepts that God knew it was best for America to elect Barack Obama.