For the prophets and rabbis, the exodus from Egypt is paradigmatic of Jewish faith that God redeems from all forms of foreign domination.

Love is a divine gift that redeems man in the eyes of God, and the poet's mistress is the angel sent from heaven to show the way to salvation.

Among the eight theological statements which the advertisement briefly laid out were: " Nazism is not a Christian phenomenon "; " Humanly irreconcilable differences between Jews and Christians will not be settled until God redeems the entire world as promised in Scripture "; and the statement which generated the most controversy in Jewish circles, " Jews and Christians worship the same God ".

Special grace, in Reformed theology, is the grace by which God redeems, sanctifies, and glorifies his people.

The Book of Amos is set in a time when the people of Israel have reached a low point in their devotion to the God of Israel-the people have become greedy and have stopped following and adhering to their values.

Through Amos, God tells the people that he is going to judge Israel for its sins, and it will be a foreign nation that will enact his judgment.

For the people of Israel " the day of the LORD " is the day when God will fight against their and his enemies, and it will be a day of victory for Israel.

However, Amos and other prophets include Israel as an enemy of God, as Israel is guilty of injustice toward the innocent, poor, and young women.

The plagues in the preceding chapter, chapter four, were supposed to be seen as acts of discipline that turned Israel back to God.

God will not hold back judgment because Israel refuses to listen to the prophets and even goes so far as to try to silence them ( 2: 12, 3: 8, 7: 10-17 ).

As it is with all nations that rise up against the kingdom of God, even Israel and Judah will not be exempt from the judgment of God because of their idolatry and unjust ways.

Other major ideas in the book of Amos include: social justice and concern for the disadvantaged ; the idea that Israel's covenant with God did not exempt them from accountability for sin ; God is God of all nations ; God is judge of all nations ; God is God of moral righteousness ; God made all people ; God elected Israel and then liberated Israel so that He would be known throughout the world ; election by God means that those elected are responsible to live according to the purposes clearly outlined to them in the covenant ; if God destroys the unjust, a remnant will remain ; and God is free to judge whether to redeem Israel.

A constant concern for Allah ( i. e. God ) results in a careful attitude towards people, animals, and other things in this world.

This concept was emphasized by Sufi mystics like Rabia al-Adawiyya who paid attention to the difference between dedication to Allah ( i. e. God ) and dedication to people.

As such it draws to a conclusion the themes introduced in Genesis and played out in Exodus and Leviticus: God has promised the Israelites that they shall become a great ( i. e. numerous ) nation, that they will have a special relationship with Yahweh their god, and that they shall take possession of the land of Canaan.

Forty years before the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70, i. e. in 30, the Sanhedrin effectively abolished capital punishment, making it a hypothetical upper limit on the severity of punishment, fitting in finality for God alone to use, not fallible people.

In the Christian Science textbook, Eddy cites seven synonyms for God: < i > Divine Principle, Life, Truth, Love, Soul, Spirit, and Mind .< i >< ref > Science & Health, Chapter 6 -- Science, Theology, Medicine, p. 115, < i >" Divine synonyms, GOD: Divine Principle, Life, Truth, Love, Soul, Spirit, Mind.

"</ i ></ ref > She calls the Holy Ghost " divine Science or the Holy Comforter ," the spiritual law of God operating as the Holy Ghost in the world.

They view their divine purpose as being ideally a " light upon the nations " and a " holy people " ( i. e., a people who live their lives fully in accordance with Divine will as an example to others ), not " the one path to God ".

One strong possibility is that it is a diptych ( i. e., divided into two parts ), with the division between parts 1 and 2 at the crossing of the Red Sea or at the beginning of the theophany ( appearance of God ) in chapter 19.

However, the majority of modern scholars view them as Jewish Christians, who taught that in order for pagans to belong to the people of God, they must be subject to some or all of the Jewish Law, ( i. e. Judaizers ).

Kalima is the declaration of faith, i. e. the professing that there is only one God ( Allah ) ( monotheism ) and that Muhammad is God's messenger.

God tells the patriarchs that he will be faithful to their descendants ( i. e. to Israel ), and Israel is expected to have faith in God and his promise.

Thus when God doth work, who shall let ( i. e. prevent ) it?

He removes the human sense of justice from his concept of God ; i. e., humanity is not the image of God: " To God all things are fair and good and just, but people hold some things wrong and some right.

Translated excerpts from Hezbollah's original 1985 manifesto read :< div > We are the sons of the umma ( Muslim community ) ...... We are an ummah linked to the Muslims of the whole world by the solid doctrinal and religious connection of Islam, whose message God wanted to be fulfilled by the Seal of the Prophets, i. e., Prophet Muhammad.

Several ships and one submarine of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dreadnought in the expectation that they would " dread nought ", i. e. " fear nothing, but God ".

The Qur ' anic term for their religious doctrine is shirk ( i. e., " sharing "); it describes them as mushrikin ( i. e., those who believe in God, but " share " other Gods in divinity ).

* God creates a regent from the House of David ( i. e. the Messiah ) to lead the Jewish people and the world and usher in an age of justice and peace

If he does teshuva ( repentance ), i. e. he ceases his forbidden actions, regrets what he has done, apologizes to God, and makes a binding resolution never to repeat those actions, he is seen to be forgiven by God.

God in Heaven, I can't refuse you now.

God, what a world you people live in ''.

My God, how long is he going to wait, I thought.

I've got something to say to you, and by God you're going to listen.

Please, dear God, make my pilots good, he prayed.

They were west of the Sabine, but only God knew where.

`` God help us if we're near the island of Eromonga.

`` By God '', Waddell said, `` we don't want to upset the boy at this time of all times.

`` Holy Mary, Mother of God, Star of the Sea, stay Thou with me on this next dive.

John Adams asserted in the Continental Congress' Declaration of Rights that the demands of the colonies were in accordance with their charters, the British Constitution and the common law, and Jefferson appealed in the Declaration of Independence `` to the tribunal of the world '' for support of a revolution justified by `` the laws of nature and of nature's God ''.

`` We the people of the Confederate States, each state acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity -- invoking the favor and the guidance of Almighty God -- do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America ''.

Lucretius has remarked: `` The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause, and these they attribute to the will of God ''.

that is, on the basis of his own sinfulness and abject wretchedness, Piepsam becomes a prophet who in his ecstasy and in the name of God imprecates doom on Life -- not only the cyclist now, but the audience, the world, as well: `` all you light-headed breed ''.

The image of God has simply disappeared.

Lincoln understood this better than most when he said in his `` Second Inaugural '' that God `` gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came ''.

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

I saw a piece the other day assailing William Buckley, author of Man And God at Yale and publisher of The National Review, as no conservative at all, but an old liberal.

He ascribes to the mercy of God the peace which this personal matter -- the assurance that he can physically sustain the burden of the office longer than any individual in the history of our nation has been able to do -- has brought him.

In assigning to God the responsibility which he learned could not rest with his doctors, Eisenhower gave evidence of that weakening of the moral intuition which was to characterize his administration in the years to follow.

Like Lincoln, he can distinguish his relation to God from the constitutional responsibilities a questionable decision exacts of him.

The steady purpose of our society is to assure justice, before God, for every individual.

The unfinished note, written in pencil upon the back of a used envelope, and addressed to the coroner, makes one wonder about many things: `` God forgive me for everything.

He was universally beloved by his neighbours, and the Indians, who esteemed him, not only as a friend, but one high in communion with God in Heaven ''.

Gorton left England, he said, `` to enjoy libertie of conscience in respect to faith towards God, and for no other end ''.