Sentence examples for be of divine origin from inspiring English sources

Unlike the Romans, who considered ritual law (fas) God-given and social law (lex) man-made, the rabbis believed all Jewish law to be of divine origin.

It was written about by the Greeks in the third century B.C., and was thought to be of divine origin by the Celts because its roots are closer to Heaven than those of other plants.

For this reason, one of the questions that engages him is the method of distinguishing between the true divine law, meaning the Torah of Moses, and a false religion that also claims to be of divine origin, meaning Christianity.

However, unlike Christians with the Bible, the vast majority of Muslims believe the Quran to be of divine origin and believe in its literal interpretation.

Pythagoras held that the soul was of divine origin and existed before and after death.

"They thought chocolate was of divine origin," Ms. Moriarty said, "and that the cocoa tree was a bridge between heaven and earth".

He is also said to have been of divine origin, his first ancestor having been a gray wolf, "born with a destiny from heaven on high".

According to Vodou theology, a human being is composed of three parts: a physical body, a tibo-nanj (one's personality and conscience), and a gwobonanj, which is of divine origin.

They believed, first, that deeper meanings lay behind biblical texts, that the Bible was a book of instruction about the world and how to serve God in it, that it was somehow "seamless" and harmonious despite surface conflicts and, finally, that it was of divine origin.

Gelasius' doctrine that both sacred and civil power are of divine origin and independent, each in its own sphere, was then the most progressive thinking on the subject; had his formula been established, the subsequent history of the papacy probably would have been different.

Influenced by Walter Benjamin's early theory of language, Scholem argued that language was of "divine origin" (however this is understood) and thus the experience of revelation was itself linguistic.