Sentence examples for commandment from God from inspiring English sources

It was like a commandment from God".

"They believe polygamy was a commandment from God to the Mormon founder, Joseph Smith Jr., in the 1830's," explained Dr. Quinn, himself an excommunicated Mormon from a Mormon family that goes back seven generations.

And you should definitely be concerned if your partner goes on to mention a second dream involving a commandment from God to take a year off and travel the world.

Who the fuck are you to be so smug as to think your stupid band name is like a commandment from God that we should all just recognize?

Although viewed by the very religious as a commandment directly from God, according to Jewish law, circumcision is not what makes a boy or a man Jewish.

All that we hear is that "grand things", such as the Ten Commandments, come directly from God.

"Thou shalt not kill": whether the commandment is seen as coming from God or simply from self-evident moral intuition, few dispute that to kill is to commit a wrong, and that to refrain from killing is to prevent a wrong.

Under Moses the people are finally liberated, and during their wanderings in the desert, Moses receives from God the Ten Commandments, in two tables or tablets (Exod. 20 1 17, 31:18).

The Israelites were overwhelmed by the voice of God, but there is significance to the fact that only the first two commandments were heard by the nation directly from God.

Only adherence to the specific commandments and prohibitions embodied in the Written and Oral Law from God can do so.

In 2005, Justice Antonin Scalia called the commandments "a symbol of the fact that government derives its authority from God".