Sentence examples for decrees of god from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Further, since necessary truths are not dependent upon the first free decree of God but are instead revealed by analysis to be identities, they are in fact propositions that are true in all possible worlds.

The crucial idea here is that a proposition is contingently true in this world when it is somehow dependent upon the first free decree of God, that is, when the reason for the truth of the proposition is to be located in the actualization of this particular world.

The question of whether al-Ghazālī himself is committed to occasionalism depends on whether al-Ghazālī regards this claim that the "connection [between creatures] is due to the prior decree of God" to be incompatible with there being real secondary causation that is, genuine creaturely causation.

As we saw in the long quote from TF 170, al-Ghazālī not surprisingly holds that "[t]heir connection is due to the prior decree of God, who creates them side by side, not to its being necessary in itself, incapable of separation".