Steven Harper states " Wesley does not place the substitionary element primarily within a legal framework ... Rather doctrine seeks to bring into proper relationship the ' justice ' between God's love for persons and God's hatred of sin ... it is not the satisfaction of a legal demand for justice so much as it is an act of mediated reconciliation.

The story of Jonah is set against the background of Ancient Israel in the 8th-7th centuries BC but deals with the religious and social issues of the late 6th-4th centuries BC, coinciding with the views of latter chapters of the book of Isaiah ( Third Isaiah ), where Israel is given a prominent place in the expansion of God's kingdom to the Gentiles.

Goldsworthy schematizes the Kingdom of God as the expression of God's rule over God's people in God's place.

Judaism also does not have a notion of hell as a place ruled by Satan since God's dominion is total and Satan is only one of God's angels.

They believe that God raised Jesus from death and gave him immortality, and he ascended to Heaven, God's dwelling place.

In the morning, Jacob awakened and continued on his way to Haran, after naming the place where he had spent the night " Bethel ", " God's house ".

In the Moses story related by the Qur ' an, Jochebed is commanded by God to place Moses in an ark and cast him on the waters of the Nile, thus abandoning him completely to God's protection.

Thus, in place of God's role as guarantor of the coherence of the world, Kant posits a faculty of reason structured by the forms of our intuition ( our sense of time and space ) and the categories of our understanding ( like the notion of cause and effect ).

" God's name is the real pilgrimage place which consists of contemplation of the word of God, and the cultivation of inner knowledge.

The marriage of Catherine and Henry took place in 1509, but eventually he became dubious about its validity, due to Catherine's inability to provide an heir being seen as a sign of God's displeasure.

God declares the sinner to be " not guilty " because Christ has taken his place, living a perfect life according to God's law and suffering for his sins.

According to a view that has featured prominently in Western theology since early in the 2nd millennium, God's justice required an atonement for sin from humanity if human beings were to be restored to their place in creation and saved from damnation.

The etymologically equivalent word is derived from the original Avestan counterpart, and used instead of Heaven to describe the ultimate pleasurable place after death, accessible by those who pray, donate to charity, read the Qur ' an, believe in: God, the angels, his revealed books, his prophets and messengers, the Day of Judgement and the afterlife, and follow God's will in their life.

Several books and booklets focused on the key events that would signal the imminence of Christ's return, and taught of a specific end-time prophecy to be fulfilled, manifested in the form of European peacekeeping forces surrounding Jerusalem, at which time God's Church would be taken to a place of protection, or " place of safety " — possibly Petra in Jordan.

Everything was done by Schindler, a bigger wretch I never knew on God's earth — an arch-scoundrel whom I have sent about his business — I can dedicate another work to your wife in place of it ..."

In these cases, the sense is of the object of that agape love being a form of idol, taking the place that should be God's own.

HOPEFUL assumes FAITHFUL ' S place by God's design.

Thus, what man saw as evil, such as wars, epidemia and natural disasters, was in fact only an effect of his perception ; if one adopted God's view, this evil event in fact only took place in the larger divine plan.

According to Evangelical theologian Charles C. Ryrie, modern liberal theology " gives an exaggerated place to the abilities of man to decide his own fate and to effect his own salvation entirely apart from God's grace.

The goal of the divine plan as revealed in Exodus is a return to man's state in Eden, so that God can dwell with the Israelites as he had with Adam and Eve through the Ark and Tabernacle, which together form a model of the universe ; in later Abrahamic religions this came to be interpreted as Israel being the guardian of God's plan for mankind, to bring " God's creation blessing to mankind " begun in Adam.

Raymond Brown contends that " The Johannine picture of a savior who came from an alien world above, who said that neither he nor those who accepted him were of this world, and who promised to return to take them to a heavenly dwelling could be fitted into the gnostic world picture ( even if God's love for the world in could not ).

The Gospels of Mark, Matthew and ( most clearly ) Luke relate that Jesus came from Galilee to John in Judea and was baptized by him, whereupon the Spirit descended upon Jesus and a voice from Heaven told him he was God's Son.

It was the difficulty in using the longbow which led various monarchs of England to issue instructions encouraging their ownership and practice, including the Assize of Arms of 1252 and King Edward III's declaration of 1363: " Whereas the people of our realm, rich and poor alike, were accustomed formerly in their games to practise archery – whence by God's help, it is well known that high honour and profit came to our realm, and no small advantage to ourselves in our warlike enterprises ... that every man in the same country, if he be able-bodied, shall, upon holidays, make use, in his games, of bows and arrows ... and so learn and practise archery.

When he came to mount the steps to the scaffold, he is widely quoted as saying ( to the officials ): " I pray you, I pray you, Mr Lieutenant, see me safe up and for my coming down, I can shift for myself "; while on the scaffold he declared that he died " the king's good servant, but God's first.

Islam views Jesus as a human like all other prophets, who preached that salvation came through submission to God's will and worshiping God alone.

One day Akiva came to Rachel by a river, and asked her why the Jewish people, if they were God's Chosen people, had to suffer so much.

The author of the work seems to be a dualist because he presents Belial as God's opponent, not as a servant, but does not mention how or why this came to be.

A special kind of rhythm was produced by the frequent employment of the so-called anadiplosis, a mode of speech in which the phrase at the end of one sentence is repeated at the beginning of the next, as, for instance, in the passages " they came not to the help of the Lord to protect God's people, to the help of the Lord against the mighty " ( Judges 5: 23 ; compare " ẓidḳot " and " nilḥamu " b ), and " From whence shall my help come?

Two notable examples came in the episodes " Cousin Liz " ( Archie went on a diatribe about how God hates gays ) and " California, Here We Are " ( where, upon learning that Gloria's near affair had almost destroyed the Stivics ' marriage, berates the " Little Goil " and says that the matter is " God's business ").

# He went up on the eighteenth day of Tammuz to beg forgiveness for the people's sin and came down without God's atonement on the twenty-ninth day of Av

# He went up on the first day of Elul and came down on the tenth day of Tishrei, the first Yom Kippur, with God's atonement

In face of the fake Umayyad claim to legitimate sovereignty in Islam as God's Vice-regents on earth, and in view of Umayyad treachery, arbitrary and divisive government, and vindictive retribution, they came to appreciate his honesty, his unbending devotion to the reign of Islam, his deep personal loyalties, his equal treatment of all his supporters, and his generosity in forgiving his defeated enemies.

Doctrines of the Church of God General Conference include belief in the authority of the Bible as the rule of faith, one God, who is the Father, Jesus is God's Son, who came into existence beginning with his miraculous conception in Mary's womb, repentance is life long change, the literal premillennial second coming of Jesus Christ, those who have accepted the gospel will be resurrected at the return of Christ, and that the promises of God to Abraham will be literally fulfilled, referred to as the " Kingdom of God " being established on earth.

Colson, however, came alongside the creation care movement when endorsing Christian environmentalist author Nancy Sleeth ’ s Go Green, Save Green: A Simple Guide to Saving Time, Money, and God's Green Earth.

Because the church believes that Judaism is God's plan of worship, " New Testament Judaism " reflects the fact that Jesus came to reform Judaism, not to destroy it.

In some cases the original meanings of these minced oaths were forgotten ; < nowiki >' struth </ nowiki > ( By God's truth ) came to be spelled < nowiki > strewth </ nowiki > and zounds changed pronunciation ( with the vowel as in " found ") so that it no longer sounded like By God's wounds.

In the years following their separation, she came to believe that the time she had spent with Byron guaranteed he would experience God's embrace upon his death.

He starred in another movie with Zachary Isaiah Williams, God's Gift, which came out in 2006.

The Vineyard movement's statement of faith states the belief that God's kingdom came through Jesus and continues to come through the Holy Spirit.

From this latter point of view, any practice associated with Judaism came to be seen as a rejection of God's salvific gift, even the prohibition of blood which is listed among the " three exceptions " in Acts 15 ( though the prohibition of blood was only rejected in the Western Church and not until the Middle Ages ).

As the flood had killed all other living beings, the rainbow came to symbolize God's promise that he would never send another flood to destroy all of the earth and that never again would all living things be killed in the waters of a flood.