The Protestant Reformers, including Calvin, condemned suicide as roundly as did the established Church, but held out the possibility of God treating suicide mercifully and permitting repentance.
A message centered around submission to God, treating others better than how you want to be treated, and standing up for justice even if it's against you.
Don't you think he's cruel?" There is even a glint of menace in his complaint: "I also didn't like the way God treated Moses".
Unlike Murdoch, Gass and Wallace, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, whose latest novel is "36 Arguments for the Existence of God," treats philosophical questions with unabashed directness in her fiction, often featuring debates or dialogues among characters who are themselves philosophers or physicists or mathematicians.
For example, against Penelhum he argues that as long as God treats non-believers justly, there is nothing immoral about him bestowing special favor on believers, more perhaps than they deserve.
The deism of Bolingbroke implied the principle that God treated everyone impartially, and that the means to salvation were therefore to be found in a medium available to all, and thus available from the earliest point of human history, namely reason.
This is how a soccer god treats his subjects.
Sometimes we think God treats sin like we would if we were God, and that he handles forgiveness like we would.
Sixth, a false refrain we heard was that God treated all sex outside marriage as sin - so gay people were not treated differently.
But, how might the world be different if those of us in covenant relationship with God treated time as a gift from God that we were to steward (Exodus 20 8-11)?
