Sentences with phrase «so ordained»

This is why Catholics say Mary is a shortcut to Jesus, because they believe God so ordained it» and ordains and ordains and ordains.

Many Anglicans, however, who have insisted that clergy should be ordained by a bishop in the apostolic succession20 have not been willing to receive Communion from clergy not so ordained, although Anglicans now seem more relaxed about this.

There is no immediately discernable reason for the circumcision of male infants, or for the prohibition of mixing milk and meat, except the Torah's claim that God has so ordained.

His point is that the defilement is real and the ritual effective, not because of any special properties of dead bodies or water as such, but simply because God has so ordained matters.

Yet no one can deny that God foreknew what end man was to have before he created him, and consequently foreknew because he so ordained by his decree (Calvin, Institutes, III.xxiii.7).

«Yet no one can deny that God foreknew what end man was to have before he created him, and consequently foreknew because he so ordained by his decree.»

The educated modern man needs no reminder how It has been of the best to «just go along» with the evangelical and his beliefs rather than suffer the wrath that might be so ordained against him by those who have carved out their virtuous beliefs from an age old written scripture.

Not exact matches

He ordained almost all the priests in the diocese, so they can not look him in the face and say no to what he likes.

Note, however, that some of the mainline / oldline churches are, so far successfully, resisting the final step of ordaining professed and active homosexuals.

If we are true believers of God and we have to ensure that what we have been believing has been the Truth as ordained by God and have been doing good we will see at the time of death Heaven the place we are going to, So when we see heaven our worldly posessions like family, wealth etc go into oblivion and we are not concerned the least about them since what we are now going into will dazzle us so mucSo when we see heaven our worldly posessions like family, wealth etc go into oblivion and we are not concerned the least about them since what we are now going into will dazzle us so mucso much.

Fortunately, the church that originally ordained me closed, so I didn't have to resign and go through that nonsense... but thats another story.

I believe in government; that men can not live together without rules but that they should be kept at the bare minimum of safety; that there is no form of government ordained from God as being better than any other; that the anarchic elements in society are so strong that it is a whole - time task to keep the peace.

----------------- — God didn't have to predict that the Jews would misuse scripture, God ordained it to be so.

For those that believe life is sacred and ordained by God, how can those that believe so put millions, billions, or even trillions before belief in the protection of life.

«God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass; yet so, neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of secondary causes taken away, but rather established.»

You do understand that the Pope is infallible and ordained by God so you can't even ask whether or not he was the right man for the job?

The Westminster Confession of Faith states it this way: «God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass; yet so, neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of secondary causes taken away, but rather established.

The Westminster Confession of Faith puts it this way: «God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass; yet so, neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of secondary causes taken away, but rather established.»

America has so many people who identify themselves as religious because A) some of our initial settlers came to the colonies because their beliefs were out of line with the government ordained religion in their country.

The Church is working at cleaning these people out and setting up stringent entrance requirements for seminarians so that no new priests will be ordained who are pedophiles.

(14) So unto this (religion of Islâm alone and this Qur» ân) then invite (people)(O Muhammad SAW), and stand firm [on Islâmic Monotheism by performing all that is ordained by Allâh (good deeds), and by abstaining from all that is forbidden by Allâh (sins and evil deeds)-RSB-, as you are commanded, and follow not their desires but say: «I believe in whatsoever Allâh has sent down of the Book [all the holy Books, — this Qur» ân and the Books of the old from the Taurât (Torah), or the Injeel (Gospel) or the Pages of Ibrâhîm (Abraham)-RSB- and I am commanded to do justice among you.

I thank the powers of the Godly ordained to have made my sub-microbial celestially built body and the social generalist ambiances leavening for giving me an afforded life to be so lived out upon an Omni - celestial portion of planetary worldly passions felt by self - loathing critiques of renounced meager reckoning!

So our heavenly Father would very much like for us to be saved and, therefore, has ordained for us, not eternal fire but heaven and eternal life.

So is this verse describing God's ordained order for the marriage relationship?

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.

Fortunately, Brian is ordained, already has a good reputation in town, has filed the appropriate paperwork for a 5013c, and didn't seem to like the earthship idea... so we'll probably be okay.

Thirdly, «the deaconesses of the early Church were ordained according to the meaning of the word at the time and therefore can be so again».

So it is important, if the Catholic Church is to get it right this time, that we should understand clearly why so many Anglicans stayed inside the C of E when women were ordained in the frst placSo it is important, if the Catholic Church is to get it right this time, that we should understand clearly why so many Anglicans stayed inside the C of E when women were ordained in the frst placso many Anglicans stayed inside the C of E when women were ordained in the frst place.

But then in my church we don't ordain women and that's just that and, so the subject never comes up.

The campus ministry is led by an ordained chaplain and doesn't depend on student leaders, so RUF has signed the policy.

In those days, laypeople were already so well educated they could be ordained within days.

The Arab laity complained that their churches were allowed to deteriorate and that no new ones were built; that the Greeks ordained illiterate Arab priests, forbade them to preach, and limited their duties to the performance of the Sunday liturgy; and that the Greeks encouraged Arab deacons to marry prior to ordination, so as to render them ineligible for promotion to bishop or appointment to the celibate Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, which governs the Patriarchate.

Since Jesus Christ founded the Catholic Church and placed good men in charge of it, and because it was the Catholic Church which put the Books of the Bible in the Bible and coined the word «Bible», and because the Bible tells us that the Church is the pillar and foundation of Truth, and because these good men [that you refer to as misguided] are the ones ordained and «sent», [just like Jesus was «sent» by the Father], are at the «helm» of His Church and have the absolute authority to interpret the Bible, I am so inclined to be ever so thankful that Jesus Christ set it all up this way so that the burdens and crosses that I may bear will become as light as the yoke that Jesus Christ promised if we are willing to follow him, and not our will be done but His.

They said that somebody had to make decisions and God had ordained them to the task, so unless the congregants agreed to obey, they either left or kept quiet.

Half of the ordained faculty and 40 percent of all faculty say that they lead worship at least once a month, and one quarter of the ordained faculty (who are 75 percent of the total) do so weekly.

He went so far as to suggest, but did not develop the idea, that homosexuals who had been ordained were not validly ordained, homosexuality being an «impediment» to ordination in the same way that there may be impediments to a valid sacramental marriage.

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.

But no one can yet know what direction this movement should take so far as the ordained ministry is concerned.

Possibly the «weak» would not go so far as to assert that elements consecrated by an ordained priest or minister are necessary for salvation.

For example, in one speech Hitler said, «In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that He may grant us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that He may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger... I am convinced that men who are created by God should live in accordance with the will of the Almighty... If Providence had not guided us I could often never have found these dizzy paths... Thus it is that we National Socialists, too, have in the depths of our hearts our faith.

They are that, of course, but they are much else too, and I suspect that one of the reasons for the revolt against religion is that too often religiously minded people, lay or ordained, have talked of humankind in altogether too «spiritual» a fashion, forgetting so much else that is true of every person who has ever lived.

It was conceded that the application of so strict a rule as celibacy to those not called to a life of asceticism but ordained to the diaconate in preparation for ministry in the church had led to widespread abuse and immorality.

He was not prepared for the ministry and was not called, so the Plymouth Colony got along without the sacraments for four years before an ordained clergyman arrived.

So I'll add to your list «Uncertainty» of leaving this vocation (specifically, ordained Word and sacrament ministry in a specific context) behind.

Graham and others advised him to go ahead, so Bright quit Fuller Seminary and abandoned his goal of becoming an ordained minister.

Certainly, it has been one of the sorrier aspects of North American Anglicanism that leading ordained women have been so roundly and predictably revisionist.

«We all have a God - ordained purpose in our life, but I have to add to that because I learned... that before he will lead us into each stage of our purpose, drawing us closer and closer, he has to do things in our life so we when we get to that next stage, we won't misfire, destroy or lose,» he says.

But, as we have discussed at length over the past year, for modern - day Christian patriarchalists (sometimes called complementarians), hierarchal gender relationships are God - ordained, so the essence of masculinity is authority, and essence of femininity is submission.

Jesus authorized his disciples (and those ordained thereafter) to do so on his behalf.

That is why being named (ordained) to this role is so important.