Sentences with phrase «own eternal laws»

It's one of the eternal laws of economics, like gravity in physics.

To avoid that conclusion, Aquinas defended an eternal law and thus drew a tight connection between divine decisions and eternal truths.

Change is the eternal law, even though there still is nothing new under the sun (sorry don't remember the exact paraphrased verses).

The divine is revealed largely as the eternal law or word made plain only to the self subject to it.

Yet even simplicity's great sponsor Thomas Aquinas had a concept of eternal law, which opens the door to the possibility that there is a law common to God and creatures and that God submits to a law that is, in the end, the definitive expression of his own character.

Gerry McDermott is a great theologian, and he is right to worry about the idea that God is subjected to an eternal law, but even on this issue, Mormons have much to say that is worth pondering.

In the Summa Theologiae, Aquinas does not mean to say that natural law is shared by all animals including human beings» the natural law, as the «participation of the eternal law in the rational creature,» pertains only to human beings (I - II, 91.2)» but that natural law includes natural inclinations shared by other animals, «such as sexual intercourse, education of offspring, and so forth.»

Working in light of the redemption and the revelation of Trinitarian communion, a biblical theologian can affirm both a natural created and graced participation in what Thomas called the eternal law.

My essay affirms a very orthodox view of Rabbinical Judaism, as our Chukat Olam (eternal law).

Thus freedom is always called to decisions which can not be derived from general norms and eternal laws alone (even though they must not contradict them) and which nevertheless are not left to an arbitrary choice but claim the whole man because of his special call.

To answer that question, Justin argues that we have to have «a clear, consistent biblical standard for interpreting the text, a principle we can apply to various passages that will help us to determine, fairly and consistently, how to translate them for our culture... Such a standard would need to be able to differentiate God's eternal laws — such as those dealing with murder, theft, and adultery — from the cultural biblical rules Christians are no longer obligated to follow — such as those dealing with dietary restrictions and head coverings.»

It places pleasure above love, health and well - being above the sacredness of life, the participation of special interests groups in governance above democratic representation, women's rights above motherhood, the empowerment of the selfish individual above any form of legitimate authority, ethics above morality, the right to choose above the eternal law written in the human heart, democracy and humanism above divine revelation — in a nutshell, immanence above transcendence, man above God, the «world» above «heaven».

Morality comes ultimately from God, according to his eternal law.

First, the caste community consists of four castes that are hierarchically ordered) The Brahmins (priests) are the preservers and protectors of the eternal laws of the Universe (Dharma); the Ksatriyas (rulers and warriors) are the defenders and the guarantors of the safety and security of the community; the Vaisyas (business persons) are the conservers and distributors of wealth; and the Sudras (the laborers) are the working majority involved in the production of essential commodities.

He wrote: `... all things partake somewhat of the eternal law, in so far as... its being imprinted on them, they derive their respective inclinations to their proper acts and ends.»

Would you dare argue, he asks, that you see the necessary effect of eternal laws decreed by a God both free and just as you contemplate

My body had been some time dead before I was at liberty to quit it, lest it should by any accident return to life: this is an injunction imposed on all souls by the eternal law of fate, to prevent the inconveniences which would follow.

This view is complemented by an understanding of the eternal laws of power, as borrowed from Ancient Greece, dictating that the strong do as they like and the weak must endure.

So, creation is simply a reflection of God contained in God, a reflection, as Thomas notes somewhat heavily, of the Eternal Law.

It is the philosophical underpinning of the physicist's conviction that timeless, eternal laws rule the universe from the bottom up.

An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.»

Not exact matches

Before the «Dispensation of Grace» of God, by which we are saved through «Faith in Jesus Christ» as Lord and our personal Savior, Jesus Christ fulfilled the «Law of God» on our behalf during His ministry on earth, died on the «Holy Cross» for the «Remission of Our Sins» once and for all, descended to hell and defeated death, then rose from the dead on the third day bringing us «Eternal Life» and «Reconciliation» with God the Father!

God is his own eternal divinity, life, law, and good, and therefore never ceases to be divine, living, lawful, and good.

Have those misconceptions about the Law given to the Jews clearly explained and find out why God allows suffering and where the idea of a hellfire really came from and what the truth is that leads to eternal life.

While it does not appear to me that bin Laden in any way obeyed the Laws of God, and thereby lived out of love, and therefore, yes, is more than likely facing eternal perdition, I can not know that.

The Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled the Law on our behalf, died on the Holy Cross for the remission of our sins (became sin and curse for us) descended to hell and defeated death (keys of which were held by Satan,) rose from the dead on the third day bringing us eternal life and reconciliation with God the Father, then ascended to Heaven promising us the Holy Spirit and preparing the place for us.

By even 1 mortal sin — a fully - knowing and fully - deliberate act against God's law (the 10 commandments)-- you reject God, too, and thereby merit eternal separation from God and punishment in Hell.

The material can't be eternal due to what we know of the laws of thermodynamics and the observations I've already noted.

As a former Mormon and missionary, here's the short summary: Polygamy is an eternal, God law.

and at the time of jesus moses gallileo newton charles darwin, people opposed them but ultimately the same people bowed to their eternal truth, so norm is man made not natural and it changes from time to time, the only thing which is self reliant and unchanging is mother nature, so Sikh faith is not a ritualistic dumb faith, indeed it's a lifestyle which tells to «Respect and follow The Laws of Nature and not to destroyy the beauty of nature».

Laws change according to the needs of the people, Truth is eternal.

But to believe the universe is eternal is inconsistent with the laws of thermodynamics, namely that disorder tends to increase with time.

Once you characterize God as eternal, omniscient, omnipotent, not subject to or constrained by the laws of nature you can claim anything you want about him.

Convenient that people who argue that way about the law know that anything * they * do was just in the temporary purity code, and anything they find disgusting or uncomfortable they know was in the moral, eternal part.

20 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, 21 so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

@Kenrick Benjamin: «Skytag - Science have taken us back to the orgin where pure energy is eternal, we all know that Energy is govern by properties (Motion, Heat and Light) however energy it self is not sentient, so how did the porperties get it's LAWS.»

Skytag - Science have taken us back to the orgin where pure energy is eternal, we all know that Energy is govern by properties (Motion, Heat and Light) however energy it self is not sentient, so how did the porperties get it's LAWS.

The point is this: Stop thinking that when you share the Four Spiritual Laws, or the Romans Road, or the plan of salvation, or given an altar call, or invite someone to believe in Jesus for eternal life, or any of the other myriad of things that Christians today call «sharing the gospel,» stop thinking that you have actually shared the Gospel.

And just as there are certainties we have learned from nature, such as the laws of science, gravity, and thermodynamics, there are also certainties we can learn from Scripture, such as the holiness of God, our own sinfulness, and our need to believe in Jesus for eternal life.

When Jesus told the Good Samaritan parable, the expert in the law knew the «what» around inheriting eternal life and answered Jesus well («Love your neighbour»).

Obeying these laws are not to receive eternal life, or to get God to love you or answer your prayers.

Does not the New Creation (Eternal Recurrence) of Zarathustra parallel the New Creation of Jesus (the Kingdom of God) insofar as it shatters history, dissolves all rational meaning, and brings to an end the rule of Law?

John Calvin managed to invert the lesson of the passage almost entirely: The young ruler, he claimed, had asked an inept question, supposing that one could secure eternal life through works, and thus Christ's metaphor was meant as an illustration of the impossibility of anyone fulfilling the requirements of the law, and of the need therefore for a total reliance upon faith.

In the first instance, the Law, affirmed as the fixed and immutable expression of God's eternal will, and spelled out in theological and ethical formulas, was the sole and sufficient guide for man's conduct.

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He would have everyone focus on anything but the high price Jesus paid for believers eternal redemption from the curse of the law.

The assumption is always that the Jewish people received eternal life through obedience to the Law and following the sacrificial system instituted by Moses.

But we know, as they could not, that honouring the natural law of marriage can lead us, by grace, to the eternal banquet where all are made «one flesh» — one body, one spirit, in Christ.

Americans are apparently split down the middle on whether the golden rule is an eternal moral law or a disposable human guideline.

For elucidation of the difference of the repetition of the singular to the forming of laws, Deleuze points to Kant's paradigm of the «Categorical Imperative,» which states a individual standard as general law of the same or similar actions, and opposes it to Nietzsche's anti-legalistic postulate of the «eternal return»: It is the repetition of the singular which can not be understood by any law.