Sentences with phrase «immediate sustainer»

Rather we are well reminded that the Judaeo - Christian God is the immediate sustainer of all, and that to give a scientific explanation is more evidence for the Creator than against him.

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In view of all that inheres in the first four «words» and in the light of what is there already affirmed both explicitly and by inference; in consideration of ancient Eastern modes of thought and the characteristic psychological identification one always made of his own life with the life of immediate and also more distant progenitors; in recognition of the meaning of Covenant, together with Israel's faith in God's creation and his continuing exercise of the powers and prerogatives of Creator and Sustainer - in acknowledgment of all this it is apparent that the intention of the fifth commandment is to establish and perpetuate not merely the parental but by and through the parental the divine claim upon every life in Israel.

Moreover such a positing of a partially a priori form which mediates organization and intelligibility to a further created realm below («matter») puts significant pressure upon the Christian doctrine of God as the immediate creator and sustainer of every aspect of the cosmos.