Genesis 1 says that humans were made in God's image, but human emotions, originally a reflection of God's emotional capacity, have been marred by the fall of man.

Consequently, God's will for mankind and love for mankind in Christ are not swayed by His emotions ; He is immutable.

`` God's name, what are you to rob the dead with the fight going on ''!!

You may know that you are in God's family and be just as sure of it as you are that you belong to the family of your earthly father.

God's certainty and human contingency are compatible.

As a result of the new covenant, God's chosen people are now the corporate body of Christ, the church ( sometimes called spiritual Israel – see also Covenant theology ).

The Dictionary of American Hymnology claims it is included in more than a thousand published hymnals, and recommends its use for " occasions of worship when we need to confess with joy that we are saved by God's grace alone ; as a hymn of response to forgiveness of sin or as an assurance of pardon ; as a confession of faith or after the sermon.

Many arguments from morality are based on morality normativity, which suggest that objective moral truths exist and require God's existence to give them authority.

These realities form a " composite faithfulness " and are ( i ) " perseverance in the apostolic doctrine "; ( ii ) " the will to proclaim God's word "; ( iii ) " communion in the fundamental continuity of the Church, the Body of Christ, the faithful celebration of Baptism and the Eucharist "; ( iv ) " succession in the laying on of hands, the sign of ministerial continuity ".

Those who oppose instruments today believe that emerging opposition of these Church Fathers demonstrates a better understanding of God's desire, but there are significant differences between the teachings of the Church Fathers and Christian opposition to instruments today.

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

The two Books of Samuel () are part of a series of historical books ( Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings ) that make up a theological history of the Israelites and affirm and explain God's law for Israel under the guidance of the prophets.

The major themes of Kings are God's promise, the recurrent apostasy of the kings, and the judgement this brings on Israel:

The main point of the prophetic stories is that God's prophecies are always fulfilled, so that any not yet fulfilled will be so in the future.

Additionally, Elihu's first spoken words are a confession of his youthful status, being much younger than the three canonical friends, including a claim to be speaking because he cannot bear to remain silent ; it has been suggested that this interesting statement may have been symbolic of a " younger " ( that is to say, later and interpolating ) writer, who has written Elihu's sermon to respond to what he views as morally and theologically scandalous statements being made within the book of Job, and creating the literary device of Elihu to provide what seemed to be a faith-based response to further refute heresy and provide a counter-argument, a need partially provided by God's ambiguous and unspecific response to Job at the end of the book.

He answers that the rulers are harming God's people, and want to listen only to those who advocate the virtues of wine.

The Jews are regarded as special in God's plan ( as in Romans and Ephesians ) and yet the Old Testament prophecies regarding Israel find their fulfillment in Jesus and the Church rather than in a literal restoration of Israel.

: 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.

Some might, for instance, see Christ's death and resurrection in terms not of actual physical reanimation, but in terms of the good news of Jesus ' teaching: that God's children are no longer slaves to the power of death.

Complementarians generally believe that the husband and wife are of equal worth before God, since both are created in God's image, but that husbands and wives have different functions and responsibilities that are based on gender with the husband always being the senior authority figure.

Priests are to remember that marriage is part of God's natural law and to support the couple if they do choose to marry.

While God does not change, our perception of God does, and so, Jews are open to new experiences of God's presence.

Although Judaism provides Jews with a word to label God's transcendence ( Ein Sof, without end ) and immanence ( Shekhinah, in-dwelling ), these are merely human words to describe two ways of experiencing God ; God is one and indivisible.

A minority Jewish view, which appears in some codes of Jewish law, is that while Christian worship is polytheistic ( due to the multiplicity of the Trinity ), it is permissible for them to swear in God's name, since they are referring to the one God.

Fox portrays himself as always in the right and always vindicated by God's interventions on his behalf.

" Humans are unable to fully comprehend why God performs any particular action, but whatever good or evil people may practise, their efforts always result in the execution of God's will and judgments.

The question is definitively resolved in Calvinism by asserting that all souls act according to God's sovereign will, and in Mormonism ( see below ) by asserting that human souls have always existed and are co-eternal with God.

Though not always emphasized or appreciated in the Anglican churches of their day, their teaching emphasized salvation by God's grace, apprehended through faith in Christ.

In other words, man can discover the geometric forms that constitute the Arabesque, but these forms always existed before as part of God's creation, as shown in this picture.

), and the sense of unworthiness must always be tempered with hope in God's forgiveness.

Judaism has always considered " Tikkun Olam " ( or Repairing the world ) as a fundamental reason for God's creating the world.

This improvement is not completed in this life: Christians are always " saint and sinner at the same time " ( simul iustus et peccator ) — saints because they are holy in God's eyes, for Christ's sake, and do works that please Him ; sinners because they continue to sin until death.

" And my answer has always been: " It was God's will that I should.

On the Grail quest, his intentions are always the purest, but he is unable to use God's grace to see the error in his ways.

: Throughout the different levels of explanation for punishment, the ultimate purpose is always the eschatological aim and promise of God's love and complete Messianic redemption.

Especially in Japan, God's always has been a kind of flexible concept.

Other Christians believe that the Scriptures are always right ( do not err ) only in fulfilling their primary purpose: revealing God, God's vision, God's purposes, and God's good news to humanity.

Physical Healing: It is always God's will that a believer be physically healed of any sickness or infirmity.

Material Wealth: It is always God's will that every believer be ' financially blessed ' through faith.

When working wonders or healing people, he always asked those he helped to " Say nothing of this ", explaining that he was just God's instrument.

* Early 19th century: A fundamental belief of the Society of Friends ( Quakers ) has always been the existence of an element of God's spirit in every human soul.

* No reasons for God: This arbitrariness would also jeopardize God's status as a wise and rational being, one who always acts on good reasons only.

Pieper concludes: " Only the will God's can be the right standard of its own willing and must will what is right necessarily, from within itself, and always.