Sentences with phrase «usurping prerogatives»

There is everything to commend in the attitude of humility, or thanksgiving, or petition, or intercession before God, so long as the person with the attitude is not usurping prerogatives either of God himself or of the whole congregation of Christians.

Infatuated with himself, he usurped the prerogatives of the Apostles by presuming to preach the Gospel in the streets, where he made many disciples, and involving them, both men and women, in a like presumption by sending them out, in turn, to preach.

Here, however, the Gods are enraged because the humans have usurped their prerogative as creators of terrifying weather events.

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They were terrified that Comey might once again usurp DOJ prerogatives about deciding on criminal charges by making public his views about who should be indicted.

To take one's own revenge, rather than wait for the magistrate, is to usurp God's prerogative and the prerogative of those whom Paul terms God's «ministers.»

In redefining marriage and the family, the state not only embarks on an unprecedented expansion of its powers into realms heretofore considered prior to or outside its reach, and not only does it usurp functions and prerogatives once performed by intermediary associations within civil society, it also exercises these powers by tacitly redefining what the human being is and committing the nation to a decidedly post-Christian (and ultimately post-human) anthropology and philosophy of nature.

Ironically, they underestimate the full extent of original sin, the incessant drive toward usurping divine powers and prerogatives.

Thinking he can seize the reins of the divine initiative and usurp God's prerogative, Moses receives a boomerang — a name that takes the form of a larger question redirected to him.

By avoiding the claim that RGTs «play God» by «usurping God's prerogatives,» Christian debaters can caution against the hubris unleashed by some RGTs as a way of «caring for the creation drawn from God.»

-- The government could pull out of the ECJ using Royal Prerogative powers if any such shenanigans to usurp the referendum were attempted.