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

It contains an extended polemic against the doctrine of predestination ( Chapter 164 ), and in favour of justification by faith ; arguing that the eternal destination of the soul to Heaven or Hell is neither pre-determined by God's grace ( as in Calvinism ), nor the judgement of God, in his mercy, on the faith of believers on Earth ( as in Islam ).

He claimed the throne by conquest and God's judgement in battle.

There are other interpretations which say that Saul and the witch having been frightened by his appearance, and Samuel as having been composed, classical rabbinical sources argue that Samuel was terrified by the ordeal, having expected to be appearing to face God's judgement, and had therefore brought Moses with him ( to the land of the living ) as a witness to his adherence to the mitzvot.

These include the explanation that God's act of creation and God's act of judgement are the same act.

God's condemnation of evil is believed to be executed and expressed in His created world ; a judgement that is unstoppable due to God's all powerful, opinionated will ; a constant and eternal judgement that becomes announced and communicated to other people on Judgement Day.

Philip genuinely believed the success or failure of his policies represented God's favour and judgement on his actions.

After Gloucester is dead, Winchester continues to blaspheme himself, proclaiming the death of Gloucester to be " God's secret judgement " ( 3. 2. 31 ), a callous and knowing distortion.

Early modern theologians such as William Perkins and William Ames developed a syllogistic understanding of the conscience, where God's law made the first term, the act to be judged the second and the action of the conscience ( as a rational faculty ) produced the judgement.

Some time later, as he was about to be executed, he appealed ' from this your heinous judgement to the living and true God, who is in Heaven ', warning the pope that, within a year and a day, he and Philip IV would be obliged to answer for their crimes in God's presence.

Robert Adams challenges this criticism, arguing that humans must still choose to accept or reject God's commands and rely on their independent judgement about whether or not to follow them.

At the time of God's covenant with Abram, God made it clear to Abram that the sins of the people of Canaan-in particular the Amorites-had not yet reached the point where God was ready to act in judgement of them.

In response to the Court's opinion Gomarus declared that " he would not dare die holding Arminius ' opinion, nor to appear with it before God's judgement seat.

According to Graham Oppy, weak agnosticism is " the view which is sustained by the thesis that it is permissible for reasonable persons to suspend judgement on the question of God's existence.

They believe that, when Jesus comes again, Satan will be defeated, the dead will be raised, the final judgement will happen, and God's kingdom will be fully established.

Dtr1 saw Israel's history as a contrast between God's judgement on the sinful northern kingdom of Jeroboam I ( who set up the golden calves to be worshiped ) and virtuous Judah, where faithful king David had reigned and where now the righteous Josiah was reforming the kingdom.

Cromwell, on the other hand, saw the Hispaniola defeat as God's judgement.

This behaviour provoked a riot amongst the onlookers and condemnation in the courts, where the Lord Chief Justice gave his opinion that it was because of wretches like him " that God's anger and judgement hang over us ".

For many Christians today, " messiah " refers to the personal and divine savior of all humankind, an apocalyptic notion of messiah, as one who will usher in the end of history by resurrecting the dead and by executing God's judgement over humankind.

Puritans held beliefs of predestination and that only " God's elect " will be saved when the day of judgement comes, and this weeding out process of finding the saved versus not saved was a large part of Puritan life.

From that time to this my religious concern is that I might give effective help to the bringing in of God's kingdom on earth.

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

This conclusion is based on two propositions: that man by the use of his reason can ascertain God's purpose in the universe and that God makes known His purpose by certain `` given '' physical arrangements.

( page 33 ) On the other hand, a little later on he says: `` Since 1692 a great but superficial change has wiped out God's beard and the Devil's horns, but the world is still gripped between two diametrically opposed absolutes.

In it, he deemed the high casualties on both sides to be God's will.

: That, in the opinion of this Conference, the following Articles supply a basis on which approach may be by God's blessing made towards Home Reunion:

Since then God's Naam and Will have become expressed and creative functioning in the universe goes on.

* Jesus's death satisfies God's justice: The penalty for the sins of the elect is paid in full through Jesus's work on the cross.

* God's foreknowledge of the future is exhaustive and complete, and therefore the future is certain and not contingent on human action.

The majority Arminian view is that election is individual and based on God's foreknowledge of faith, but a second perspective deserves mention.

The fourth encounter is with Micaiah, the prophet who, when asked for advice on a military campaign, first assures Ahab he will be successful and ultimately gives Ahab a glimpse into God's plan for Ahab to die in battle ( 1 Kings 22 ).

* Visions pertaining to God's judgment on Israel

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.

In his Critique of Practical Reason he went on to argue that, despite the failure of these arguments, morality requires that God's existence is assumed, owing to practical reason.

Rashi comments on this verse that " The entire people will be so imbued with the spirit of sanctity that God's Presence will rest upon them collectively, as if the congregation itself was the Ark of the Covenant.

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 ".

The question eventually became the focal point for a philosophical issue ( the theory of possible worlds ) and a theological topic on the distinction between God's absolute power ( potentia absoluta ) and His ordained power ( potentia ordinata ).

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.

" The divine call for massacre at Jericho and elsewhere can be explained in terms of cultural norms ( Israel wasn't the only Iron Age state to practice herem ) and theology ( a measure to ensure Israel's purity as well as the fulfillment of God's promise ), but Patrick D. Miller in his commentary on Deuteronomy remarks, " there is no real way to make such reports palatable to the hearts and minds of contemporary readers and believers.

God's commission to Joshua in chapter 1 is framed as a royal installation, the people's pledge of loyalty to Joshua as successor Moses recalls royal practices, the covenant-renewal ceremony led by Joshua was the prerogative of the kings of Judah, and God's command to Joshua to meditate on the " book of the law " day and night parallels the description of Josiah in 2 Kings 23: 25 as a king uniquely concerned with the study of the law — not to mention their identical territorial goals ( Josiah died in 609 BCE while attempting to annex the former Israel to his own kingdom of Judah ).

Zion ( meaning the Temple ) will be rebuilt, but by God, and based not on violence and corruption but on the desire to learn God's laws and live in peace.

* Torah Liturgy ( 6: 6 – 8 ): Micah speaks on behalf of the community asking what they should do in order to get back on God's good side.