Sentence examples for god permitted from inspiring English sources
The great church father compared classical literature to the gold of the Egyptians, which God permitted the Hebrews to use on their journey to the Promised Land even though it had once been used in pagan religious practice.
Nor is jihad required if the enemy is twice as powerful as the Muslims; in such an unequal contest, Fadl writes, "God permitted peace treaties and cease-fires with the infidels, either in exchange for money or without it — all of this in order to protect the Muslims, in contrast with those who push them into peril".
He claimed that the parts of the Bible with which he disagreed had been added by the Jews, and that Yahweh, as the cult called God, permitted polygamy, which had enabled him to marry not only a second wife but that wife's two sisters, one of whom was fifteen, as well as their mother.
Galileo argued that God permitted such language because he had deeper, more important truths to communicate.
Why would a benevolent God permit something so monstrous?
"I believe someday, if God permits, you can be with us once again," her daughter Roxanne recently wrote.
So giving must be first to the Lord and Caesar may get what God permits Caesar to take!
The Egyptian Interior Minister has told his people that the Brotherhood sit-in at the Rabaa mosque "God permitting, must end.
Can one maintain that God permits these evils to afflict specific individuals for the sake of some global good, like preserving humankind's freedom in general?
"If God permits," Archbishop Milingo said to the laughter of those around him, pointing out that the biblical figure Abraham fathered children when he was 100.
