Sentence examples for divine objective from inspiring English sources

The divine objective is of overriding significance; it is God's will that Esau (Edom) shall live in the desert and be subject to Israel.

"In this modern perspective, the death penalty expresses not the divine judgment on objective evil but rather the collective anger of the group," he wrote.

This strong reading was reinforced in China by indigenous Confucian and Daoist conceptions of a thing's nature (xing, 性) as dispositional and of the world as an auto-poetic or self-creating (ziran, 自然) system of continually-evolving relational patterns (dao, 道)—not a divine creation, an objective determinant of universal physical laws, or a material expression of transcendent principles.

God's omniscience involves all possibilities and as object of divine knowledge they receive an intelligible or objective being.

Norris' fifth argument for the existence of divine ideas is that there are objective sciences concerning universals, such as metaphysics and geometry.

Some theories were so "objective" in their emphasis upon the divine initiative that humanity seemed to be almost a pawn in the transaction between God in Christ and the Devil.

Through careful linguistic and historical exegesis Spinoza identifies numerous textual inconsistencies, which, with some philosophical buttressing, lead Spinoza to deny the exalted status of prophets, the objective reality of miracles, and the divine origin of the Pentateuch.

Indeed, one of the main objectives of Hartshorne's book The Divine Relativity (1948) is to show that only by having an eminent form of relativity can the deity qualify as worshipful.

As C. S. Lewis once put it, union with the divine "Nature is bliss and separation from it [an objective] horror" (1955, 232).

Newman proposed that the conscience, as well as giving moral guidance, provides evidence of objective moral truths which must be supported by the divine.

Republicans are now insisting that only machine balloting is objective and that manual counting is just an attempt to divine others' intentions.