Sentence examples for god decrees from inspiring English sources

At the Garden of Eden, God decrees that a man will be the husband and a woman the wife.

If God decrees that any of you are to slaughter, dedicate the slaughter to your fathers and [unclear], because you have obligations toward them.

The first ancestor of the Aesir is born not when some greater god decrees it but when a hornless cow of mysterious origins licks a block of ice until a head appears, and then a body.

All of these are worldly things [that humans can do to control their fate, although God decrees what will work and what won't] and the rest is left to God, the best One to depend on.

The early Leibniz holds that this type of proposition is true because God decrees that it would be true: that is, God decrees that Peter would deny Christ under these circumstances [see C 26 7 and Gr 312 3].

Certain things (i.e., in light of the previous point, certain intentions) becomes morally obligatory, permitted or forbidden simply because God decrees so.

"That is what God decreed.

You sense God decreed it this way.

Why should singer-songwriters assume the role of God, decreeing what is an acceptable context in which to hear their tunes?

That seems open-and-shut, though one might wonder why Davis, Cruz, Huckabee and the like seek only to deny gays marriage, rather than execute them as God decreed.

First, he adopted a middle road about the question of predestination, asserting that God decreed some things absolutely but left others to human agency a compromise that was widely adopted.