Sentence examples for Decree of god from inspiring English sources

In modern usage, predestination is distinct from both determinism and fatalism and is subject to the free decision of the human moral will; but the doctrine also teaches that salvation is due entirely to the eternal decree of God.

Gomarist, also called Contra-remonstrant, or Counter-remonstrant, follower of the Dutch Calvinist theologian Franciscus Gomarus (1563 1641), who upheld the theological position known as supralapsarianism, which claimed that God is not the author of sin yet accepted the Fall of Man as an active decree of God.

Their subordination rests on unjust convention and violence, not on any decree of God or any natural law.

The idea that justice and moral obligation do not depend on a free decree of God is a significant doctrine in Leibniz's philosophy.

That is, there must always be a reason, found within the complete individual concept of substances and issuing from the free decree of God, that a is discernible from b.

For al-Ghazālī would have granted that the causal connection between the decree of God and its effect is substantially different from the causal connection between a creaturely cause and its effect.

It is divided into two parts that discuss (1) the doctrines that Christians are to believe concerning the nature of God and the decrees of God and their executions, and (2) the duties that Christians are to perform in regard to the moral law and in regard to the gospel.

Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, added, "Slavery was established by the decree of Almighty God.

Was he not, in his way, catapulted toward his purpose no less firmly than Stone and his companions were, and with an equally fervent belief that he was obeying the decrees of his God?

The history of redemption is "the summum and ultimum of all the divine operations and decrees," the manifestation of God's internal glory in time (Edwards 1957–, vol. 16, 728).

Officials with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson will ultimately decree whether the hand of God had something to do with any images suggested by the stump.