Sentence examples for god's decrees from inspiring English sources

As for the view that morals can be founded on divine authority, the decisive objection was beautifully put by Bertrand Russell: "Theologians have always taught that God's decrees are good, and that this is not a mere tautology; it follows that goodness is logically independent of God's decrees".

He urged members to remember that their first priority was to serve God, and the policies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were based on God's decrees, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.

He cited the changes as evidence of "political and social pressures for legal and policy changes to establish behaviours contrary to God's decrees about sexual morality and the eternal nature and purposes of marriage and child-bearing".

God's decrees are thus fully sufficient for their effects.

They lack sufficient causes, and thus aren't determined either by antecedent natural conditions or by God's decrees.

Here Berkeley ties the actual existence of created physical beings to God's decrees, that is, to his will.

"Cassandra cried, and curs'd th' unhappy hour/Foretold our fate; but by the god's decree,/All heard, and none believed the prophecy".

One might be tempted to resist Leibniz's argument by saying that even according to the view on which there is an "infinite continuum of good worlds," there is something that can serve as the sufficient reason for existence of this world, namely, God's decree that this world be actual.

A Muslim is one who has submitted or surrendered; in this religious context, a Muslim is one who has voluntarily submitted to God's will or God's decree to achieve peace.

This is an incorrect belief as the various treatments are part of God's decree as well.

If all of our decisions and actions occur by God's creative decree, then all possible worlds are made feasible for him.