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He seems to be suggesting that Israel has usurped the voice of God by inscribing its national plaint into the minds of its subjects in the same way that God issues his spiritual injunction to his people.
Guidance is precisely the function of the prophets, by means of whom God issues commandments and prohibitions.
In themselves the known things are nonexistent (like ideas that have no existence outside our minds), but when God issues the "engendering command" (al-amr al-takwînî)—the word "Be!" (kun)—they enter into being (kawn).
We are prone to think of this as an event — causal relation, in which God issues a kind of command, and the command in turn produces the mandated effect.
In the possible world in which God issues a command to φ, there is a moral state of affairs its being obligatory to φ which lacks a justification (for the action is subsumed under no other divine command) and is not necessary (for God might have failed to command the action).
There God issues a set of commands about economic justice that go well beyond a progressive income tax or welfare-to-work program.
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Like "The Lovely Bones," it gets kind of squirrelly around the whole God issue.
The "God issue" is described by delegates as one of the most controversial at the convention.
(After all, the Old Testament shows God issuing codes of justice for us — the Ten Commandments, for example).
The canticle opens with God issuing his command to Abraham, his voice evoked by the two singers in close harmony.
What if, instead, that "voice of God" issued from the girl next door, the one with the great legs and the appealingly crooked grin?
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