Sentence examples for god's commands from inspiring English sources

Finally, is morality based on God's commands?

Is morality based on God's commands?

And to insure that we did, both religious traditions established institutions whose leaders interpreted God's commands to the faithful.

By the time the Bible was translated into Greek, the term already meant "a heavenly place," a paradise, for those who responded to God's commands.

Elsewhere, the Brotherhood found its white-collar brand of Islamism outflanked by harder-line groups that demanded instant rather than gradual application of Islamic law, or rejected democracy as a deviation from God's commands.

Franklin was born and brought up in Boston at a time when moral perfection meant absolute obedience in mind and deed to all of God's commands, something seen as impossible for mere human beings.

Just as we must accept that his under-standing of the scriptures as God's commands – including, presumably, the instructions to women to obey their husbands – read like some Dawkins-authored proof of religious backwardness and fancy.

The Province also contains a version of Utilitarianism in which "utility" is regarded as the index of God's commands and the test of the moral quality of general rules of conduct rather than of particular actions.

But the chastened claim that there is some arbitrariness in God's commands is far less troubling on its own.

One claim is that theological voluntarism implies that God's commands/intentions, on which moral statuses depend, must be arbitrary.

The initial claim pressed against theological voluntarism was that it made all of God's commands/intentions ultimately arbitrary, and morality could not depend on something so thoroughly arbitrary.