Sentence examples for moral god from inspiring English sources

Alter doesn't try to explain away the paradox of a moral God sanctioning immoral acts.

Now, a study suggests that an omniscient, moral god isn't necessary to keep people in line all you need is the threat of supernatural punishment.

Either we live in a universe in which morality is a meaningless concept and thus we are forever condemned to silence regarding any moral issue, or moral rules exist and we're beholden to a moral God who holds us accountable to his law.

"It seemed as if all the gods of the nature-mythologies were holding an indescribable meeting in my breast with the moral gods of the inner life," he wrote to his wife.

After telling the jurors that he was "filled with anxiety" as he spoke to them, Mr. Youngblood's voice trembled and he said, "You have to look to your moral gods, whoever they are -- Martin Luther King, Robert F. Kennedy, Mother Teresa -- wherever your sense of goodness and positive morality derives".

An innovative study of 96 societies in the Pacific now suggests that a culture might not need to believe in omniscient, moral gods in order to reap the benefits of religion in the form of political complexity.

His sensory overload is moral: My god there is so much sorrow in the grocery store!

In 2012, Dallin H Oaks of the Quorum said human laws cannot "make moral what God has declared immoral".

"They have made this a moral thing – 'God wants you to go out and vote'," he said.

The question boils down to who or what is the source of moral authority, God or the human being, religion or ethics?

No matter what legislation US states or nations passed, human laws could not "make moral what God has declared immoral", Apostle Dallin Oaks told the church's biannual general conference in Salt Lake City on Sunday.