Sentence examples for trial of god from inspiring English sources
The idea that God must uphold his end of the first commandment has been a subject of works such as Elie Wiesel's play The Trial of God (1979), made in response to the atrocities Wiesel witnessed at Auschwitz.
"Here we are, coming on two years later, and there hasn't been a single money laundering case brought to trial," said Gerald Posner, author of "God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican.
Towards the end of God on Trial, broadcast on Wednesday on BBC 2, a group of Auschwitz prisoners concluded that God was indeed guilty of breaking his covenant with the Jews.
It was Abraham's main trial to face the command of God to sacrifice his only son.
Trial by combat and trial by ordeal place judgment in the hands of God.
After the trial, "God of Vengeance" was relegated to obscurity, the winning of a court appeal aside, for it represented the "fracturing of the Jewish community," apart from other moral issues, post-Holocaust fallout and changes in immigration laws.
He said he admires people who confront this "trial of faith and stay true to the commandments of God".
For this reason, trial by combat was also known as "the judgment of God".
Three judges in Mr. Hussein's trial are candidates, one boasting he "carried out the judgment of God and the people".
The terrible trials of humankind, in this view, might well portend the joyous conclusion of God's long drama of humanity.
