Chambers, who says Nebraska is as good a place for such a case as any since God is omnipresent, asked the court for a summary judgment or for
an injunction against God from engaging in the acts detailed in the suit.
I do like this line from the article: «[Senator Chambers] is seeking a permanent
injunction against God.»
Not exact matches
In addition to his advice to the young ruler, there was his clear
injunction to store up treasure not on earth but only in heaven, his rather pointed remarks on the impossibility of dual service to both
God and Mammon, his parable about the rich man and Lazarus (which was not, I think we can grant, merely a warning
against dissipation), and so on.
From this fact arose all sorts of legal provisions — prohibitions
against removing one's neighbor's landmark (there were no surveyors with compasses in those days or recorded deeds of landholdings),
injunctions to bring the first fruits of the land as a gift to
God, provisions for observing the harvest festivals, ordinances as to slaves and «the stranger within the gates.»
Similarly, as we know that homosexuality is just as natural and
God - given as heterosexuality, we realize that the Biblical
injunctions against homosexuality were conditioned by the attitudes and beliefs about this form of sexual expression which were held by people without benefit of centuries of scientific knowledge and understanding.
Furthermore, the
injunctions against speech and authority are internally contradicted by the equally scriptural witness to the activity of women in the earliest Church: Mary the mother of
God praying with the disciples, Priscilla instructing Apollos, Phoebe serving as deaconess, and so on.