Sentence examples for god commanded from inspiring English sources
Monks in the Middle Ages spent hundreds of years arguing whether God's commandments were good in themselves or whether they were good because God commanded them; the question isn't much easier to answer if you take God out of the picture and replace Him with the tribe, or the profit margin, or the People, or the state.
He knew that God commanded him".
Suppose that God commanded us to torture a child.
Later, to test Abraham's obedience, God commanded Abraham to sacrifice the boy.
"Proclaim the pilgrimage among men; they will come to thee on foot and on every kind of camel," God commanded, according to the Koran.
In the scene, Socrates and Euthyphro are discussing the nature of piety when Socrates presents the dilemma, which can be presented as the question 'Is X good because God commands it, or does God command X because it is good?' The Euthyphro dilemma can elicit the response that an action is good because God commands the action, or that God commands an action because it is good.
What she concludes is that there is no real "human right" under God's commandment because if God commands us to renounce human rights, then that is required.
He proposed that some commandments are moral because God commands them, and some are moral irrespective of his command.
He suggested that the rest of the Ten Commandments, and any other commandments God makes, are morally obligatory because God commands them.
"God commands us to rest on Shabbos".
