Sentence examples for testament against from inspiring English sources

The imagined conflict persisted, and it informed the structure of Christian theology — church against synagogue, New Testament against Old, Christian god of mercy against Jewish god of judgment.

One need only glance at a TV screen to realize that murder remains an American preoccupation, and the concomitant questions of how to deal with it challenge contending strains in our moral thought, pitting Old Testament against New, retribution against forgiveness.

My existence is a testament against how she believes the world operates.

Our founding fathers were well aware of the consequences created by government oppression and lack of civil liberties, and the Bill of Rights was their testament against such tactics and their earnest attempt to found a country which would be almost entirely based upon personal freedom.

But, what we now know is that in the opening days of the war in Iraq, even the flimsy intelligence took a backseat to the idea that this was a Biblical fight between the forces of good (those who worship the God of the Old and New Testaments) against those who worship the God that is chronicled in the Koran.

The tally currently stands at 39 rulings in favor and 25 against, a testament to the intensity of the Justice Department attorneys.

Over the centuries, Shakespeare's Shylock has been portrayed as a model of cruelty and as a comic caricature of greed, an avatar of Old Testament justice set against New Testament mercy and a victim of a vindictive society.

To make such a claim for same-sex sexual relationships – which both Old and New Testament consistently portray as against God's will – is therefore to declare holy what Christians have traditionally viewed as sin.

In the 2nd and 3rd centuries, dualists believed that the world of matter created by an evil god (identified as the god of the Book of Genesis) and the realm of the spirit created by a good god (revealed in the New Testament) were irreconcilably pitted against one another.

The letter from the international development minister, Lynne Featherstone, is misleading the British public: our aid and the taxpayer's money is used by Ethiopia to suppress all political opposition, especially in the Ogaden where the Liyu police are committing a series of human rights abuses and our community is a testament to these crimes against humanity.

The defense of the eternal validity of Mosaic Law is directed against Christians, whose major claim was that the Law of Moses was replaced by the New Testament, as well as against Muslims, who believed that the Law received by Moses was falsified throughout the course of time.