Do our rights descend from God or derive from man?
"Our rights come from God, not from government".
Not inalienable rights that came from God.
Pat Robertson and the religious right seem to find messages from God in every hurricane.
But, following Augustine, Bonaventure claims that there is no source for immutable truth other than God, since God is the only immutable and unchanging Being.[32] What we find when we look within ourselves is that we are pointed above to God, who is the light of the mind, guaranteeing the certainty of our judgments.
Metaphysically, Leibniz takes the principle of continuity to support the claim that the true laws of motion are contingent since they follow not from God's immutable nature or eternal truths, but rather from God's wisdom and benevolence.
On the other hand nothing, not even the second person, proceeds directly from the immutable ousia of God (CommJohn 13.25.153 and 20.18.157: see below).
The death decree, or fatwa, would come to be seen by some as an early signal of a clash of absolutes that would lead up to 9/11 and into our tinderbox present — of the continuing struggle between religious belief in the immutable word of God on one hand and secular faith in the unconditional right of free speech on the other.
One is that Descartes holds that it follows from God's essence that God is eternal and that His will is wholly immutable (The Third Meditation, AT 7 45, CSM 2 31; Principles I:56, AT 8A:26, CSM 1 211; "To Mersenne, 15 April 1630," AT 1 145 6, CSMK 23; Principles II:36, AT 8A 61, CSM 1 24).
causes (e-god, oe-Human-From-Within-God) oe-God-Creates-Human-From-Within An e-god causes this process.
They continue to regard the Torah as the divine and immutable word of God.
