As an alternative ethical theory, Lewis offered a form of divine command theory which equated God with goodness and treated goodness as an essential part of reality, thus asserting God's existence.

Although killing oneself is forbidden under normal Jewish law as being a denial of God's goodness in the world, under extreme circumstances when there has seemed no choice but to either be killed or forced to betray their religion, Jews have committed suicide or mass suicide ( see Masada, First French persecution of the Jews, and York Castle for examples ).

Moore's arguments may rule out attempts to define ' goodness ' in such obviously naturalistic terms as ' happiness ' while at the same time do not preclude similar attempts to define the good in terms of God's will — in other words, divine command theory.

Alternatively, one may point out that greater good theodicies lead us to see every conceivable state of affairs as compatible with the existence of God, and in that case the notion of God's goodness is rendered meaningless.

This, however, poses a number of questions involving genetics: if evil is merely a consequence of our choosing to deviate from God's desired goodness, then genetic disposition of ' evil ' ( currently fictitious ) must surely be in God's plan and desire and thus cannot be blamed on Man.

Dr Philip Irving Mitchell of the Dallas Baptist University notes that some philosophers have cast the pursuit of theodicy as a modern one, as earlier scholars used the problem of evil to support the existence of one particular god over another, explain wisdom, or explain a conversion, rather than to justify God's goodness.

His main argument for the infinity of God, which can be found in Against Eunomius, is that God's goodness is limitless, and as God's goodness is essential, God is also limitless.

Love of God & God's goodness are eternity, infinite & limitless.

Because of the magnitude of the Holocaust, many people have re-examined the classical theological views on God's goodness and actions in the world.

He said: " May you spend many years at Maredsous in the supreme comfort of soul that is given, to natures touched by grace, by faith in God's infinite power and confidence in His goodness ".

Nasr even gives some poetry where he is perfectly in favor of Islamic orthodoxy, but expressing mystical views ( God's goodness, the ephemerical state of this life, ...):

Much of post-Holocaust theology, especially in Judaic theological circles, is devoted to a rethinking of God's goodness.

And the only answer we will accept, is the immediate and complete Redemption that will forever banish evil from the face of the earth and bring to light the intrinsic goodness and perfection of God's creation.

And so, in terms of subjects and accidents, as in the phrase " goodness of God ", divine simplicity allows that there is a conceptual distinction between the person of God and the personal attribute of goodness, but the doctrine disallows that God's identity or " character " is dependent upon goodness, and at the same time the doctrine dictates that it is impossible to consider the goodness in which God participates separately from the goodness which God is.

Since God's essence is inexpressible ; this likeness is nevertheless truly comparable to God who simply is goodness, because humanity is a complex being composed by God " in the image and likeness of God ".

By blaming witches, religious authorities provided a handy scapegoat for those who might otherwise question God's goodness.

If it was, then it must have been God's intention to translate him at a certain point from time to eternity.

If the candidate relies on sponsors, the celebrant asks them if they will raise the child in " the Christian faith and life " ( ECUSA BCP ), and will raise the child through " prayers and witness to grow into the full stature of Christ " to which the parents will state to each, " I will, with God's help.

If we believe in this mental component and call it God, then we can say that we are small pieces of God's mental apparatus " ( p. 297 ).

:" If Chief Justice Warren and his associates had known God's word and had desired to do the Lord's will, I am quite confident that the 1954 decision would never had been made.

If God in some sense knows ahead of time what will happen, then events in the universe are effectively predetermined from God's point of view.

If the idea of absolute freedom and entire self-knowledge is absent from this kind of idea of God's acts in time, then God Himself is ( to express the idea anthropomorphically ) becoming something new, or discovering something new about Himself with each new moment, just as we are.

* If baptism is a sign that a person is a member of God's covenant community, and if the children of believers are members of that community, it follows that the children of believers should receive the sign that they are members of God's covenant community by being baptized, as an infant is entitled to a passport that indicates the child as a member of a particular country.

Baldwin of Forde, Archbishop of Canterbury reacted by remarking, " If the King is not God's man, he had better be the devil's ".

# If it were not for God's restraints, there are, in the souls of wicked men, hellish principles reigning which, presently, would kindle and flame out into hellfire.

If the supposed rock was out of space-time dimension, then the question would not make sense, because it would be impossible to move an object from one location in space to another if there is no space to begin with, meaning the faulting is with the logic of the question and not God's capabilities.

If thou sayest ' He knows ', then it necessarily follows that man is compelled to act as God knew beforehand he would act, otherwise God's knowledge would be imperfect .…"

Referring to Gödel's incompleteness theory, he said: " If we cannot prove the consistency of arithmetic it seems a bit much to hope that God's existence is easier to deal with ," concluding that God is " ontologically necessary, but not logically necessary.

If we consider the fact, " which the experience of God's saints in all ages has conclusively established, of the difficulty of subduing an infirmity of temper, as well as the pain, remorse, and humiliation such an infirmity is wont to cause to those who groan under it, we may be inclined to believe that not the least probable hypothesis concerning the ' thorn ' or ' stake ' in the flesh is that the loving heart of the apostle bewailed as his sorest trial the misfortune that, by impatience in word, he had often wounded those for whom he would willingly have given his life " ( Lias's Second Cor., Introd.

If one's actions, deeds, faith or anything initiated by him are worth nil in the eyes of God and if the human being cannot influence his eventual final depository in any manner by himself, then what is the point of repentance and living according to God's will?

If man's evil acts had been from the will of God, then punishment would have been meaningless, as man performed God's will no matter what he did.

The congregation responds " Amen " to each blessing, and " Baruch Hu Uvaruch Shemo " (" blessed is He and blessed is His Name ") when the chazzan invokes God's name in the signature " Blessed are You, O Lord ..." If there are not six members of the minyan responding " Amen ," the chazzan's blessing is considered in vain.

If cruelty was commanded, he would not be loving ; Adams argued that, in this instance, God's commands would not have to be obeyed and also that his theory of ethical wrongness would break down.

If divine command theory is accepted, it implies that God is good because he obeys his own commands ; Alston argued that this is not the case and that God's goodness is distinct from abiding by moral obligations.

When Johnny admits himself into a hospital late at night, he is met by Mr. Carlson, a devoted Christian, who tells Johnny that there is nothing wrong with hearing God's voice, but doubted it was God, saying " If God had something He wanted to say, you'd hear it.

" If you hit Beirut, the Islamic resistance will hit Tel Aviv and is able to do that with God's help ," Nasrallah said in a televised address.

If threatened, it would be preferable for a Muslim to migrate to a more peaceful place where a person may practice their faith openly, " since God's earth is wide.

If you have exploited tragedy for its humor, how do you get around a happy ending ?... More than any other Simon play, ' God's Favorite ' depends heavily on its staging and setting.

If granted baraka, the saintly person is able to feel God's force from within and is nourished by the hadith while being guided by the baraka.

If God's representative on Earth was male, it seems logical to me that the opposite would be female, especially with the traditional symbolic association between femininity and the moon.

`` We're all God's creatures, aren't we ''??

We're all God's creatures, aren't we, Penny??

We must, first of all, be willing to forgive others before we can secure God's forgiveness.

Christian eschatology is concerned with death, an intermediate state, Heaven, Hell, the Second Coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, a rapture, a tribulation, the Millennium, end of the world, the last judgment, a new heaven and a new earth, and the ultimate consummation of all of God's purposes.

The Augustinian, Thomist, Lutheran, and Calvinist theological traditions all emphasize the necessity of God's undeserved grace for salvation, and reject so-called Pelagianism, which would make man earn salvation through good works.

* Man has free will to respond or resist: Free will is limited by God's sovereignty, but God's sovereignty allows all men the choice to accept the Gospel of Jesus through faith, simultaneously allowing all men to resist.

Similar to the view of Leopold Kronecker that " God made the integers ; all else is the work of man ," musicians drawn to the alphorn and other instruments that sound the natural harmonics, such as the natural horn, consider the notes of the natural harmonic series — particularly the 7th and 11th harmonics — to be God's Notes, the remainder of the chromatic scale enabled by keys, valves, slides and other methods of changing the qualities of the simple open pipe being an artifact of mere mortals.

God is identical with all that is, even evil belongs to God and proves God's omnipotence ;

God's people suffer trials in all 4 parts labelled B, B ', B " and B "'.

Finally all of these dominions are crushed by God's kingdom, a kingdom that will " endure forever ".

The first 39 chapters prophesy doom for a sinful Judah and for all the nations of the world that oppose God, while the last 27 prophesy the restoration of the nation of Israel and a new creation in God's glorious future kingdom ; this section includes the Songs of the Suffering Servant, four separate passages referring to the nation of Israel, interpreted by Christians as prefiguring the coming of Jesus Christ.

The vision was taken up by all four Gospels and applied to John the Baptist and Jesus, leading God's people out of exile.

Kings is " history-like ," but it mixes legends, folktales, miracle stories and fiction in with the annals, and its primary explanation for all that happens is God's offended sense of what is right ; it is therefore more fruitful to read it as theological literature in the form of history.

In his speech, Elihu argues for God's power, redemptive salvation, and absolute rightness in all his conduct.

God's judgement on Ninevah is " all because of the wanton lust of a harlot, alluring, the mistress of sorceries, who enslaved nations by her prostitution and peoples by her witchcraft.

Although the appellation Malachi has frequently been understood as a proper name, its Hebrew meaning is simply " My God's messenger " ( or ' His messenger ' in the Septuagint ) and may not be the author's name at all.

God's purpose for all time was to redeem for himself a people through the death and resurrection of Christ.

The product of this human-divine encounter is the Torah, the embodiment of God's will revealed pre-eminently to the Jewish people through Moses, the Prophets and the Sages, as well as to the righteous and wise of all nations.

: Fourth, the rich body of Halakhah and Aggadah and the later philosophic and mystical literature, all seeking to come closer to God's presence, are a precious resource for deepening the spiritual life of Israel and humankind.

The main sects ( see also English Dissenters ) were Baptists, who advocated adult rebaptism ; Ranters, who claimed that sin did not exist for the " chosen ones "; and Fifth Monarchy Men, who opposed all " earthly " governments, believing they must prepare for God's kingdom on earth by establishing a " government of saints ".

While all good Christians should be unafraid of death, Clement condemns those who actively seek out a martyr's death, arguing that they do not have sufficient respect for God's gift of life.

Christians believe that Jesus represents the fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham and the nation of Israel, that Israel would be a blessing to all nations.