Without a tremor, `` God forbid ''!!

The school appealed the IRS decision all the way to the U. S. Supreme Court, arguing that the University met all other criteria for tax-exempt status and that the school's racial discrimination was based on sincerely held religious beliefs, that " God intended segregation of the races and that the Scriptures forbid interracial marriage.

They forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving for those who believe and know the truth.

Following the example of the holy fathers and recognizing the obligation of our office, we absolutely forbid in virtue of the authority of the Apostolic See that anyone be ordained or promoted for money in the Church of God.

Desiring with the grace of God to protect the recognized possessions of the Holy Roman Church, we forbid under pain of anathema any military person to invade or forcibly hold Benevento, the city of St. Peter.

In the letter, Paul commands church brethren, " Do not forbid to speak in tongues " ( 1 Cor 14: 39 ), while warning them that " all things must be done properly and in an orderly manner " He further expresses his wishes that those to whom he wrote " all spoke with tongues " ( 1 Cor 14: 5 ) and claims himself to speak with tongues more than any in the church at Corinth (" I thank God I speak with tongues more than you all " 1 Cor 14: 18 ).

Negative commandments ( traditionally 365 in number ) forbid a specific action, and violations create a distance from God.

The first of the Ten Commandments can be interpreted to forbid the Children of Israel from worshiping any other god but the one true God who had revealed himself at Mount Sinai and given them the Torah, however it can also be read as henotheistic, since it states that they should have " no other gods before me.

I would not want to put any of the Jerry Falwell Ministries in a position where we might be subservient to a future Bill Clinton, God forbid ....

But if anyone presumes to contradict this definition of Ours, which may God forbid: let him be anathema.

God forbid.

And we worship them not as God, as you maintain, God forbid !...

In the PC version, IGN stated " It's all about the gameplay, and when you crank this baby to hard, or God forbid, im-freaking-possible, you'll find the gameplay to keep you going for hours piled upon days, piled upon weeks.

He shouted out, " Perhaps, God forbid, a decree has been passed upon us to be punished, for through us has been revealed that which has not been revealed from the time Moshe stood on Mount Sinai!

) says " We forbid to all servants of God hunting and expeditions through the woods with hounds ; and we also forbid them to keep hawks or falcons ".

They believe in God and the Last Day ; they enjoin Al-Ma ' rûf and forbid Al-Munkar ; and they hasten in ( all ) good works ; and they are among the righteous.

" Louis responded: " The Lord God forbid that ever I should be reproached with fleeing from the field, and abandon the emperor.

God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

Islamic texts forbid the association of partners with God ( shirk ), emphasizing a strict notion of monotheism ( tawhīd ).

The nobles disdain for justice is revealed more forcibly when Henry, unaware that Gloucester is dead, asks the court to treat him fairly, and Margaret, knowing he is both innocent and dead, responds, " God forbid any malice should prevail / That faultless may condemn a noble man " ( 3. 2. 23 – 24 ).

God forbid that should ever take place.

* God forbid: religion and sex in American public life by Kathleen M. Sands ISBN 0-19-512162-7

As it says: " God will be King over all the world ― on that day, God will be One and His Name will be One " ( Zechariah 14: 9 ).

So, although through their relationship Something and Other mutually determine each other ’ s inner Qualities, they do not have the same effect on the Infinite Being ― be it God, spirit or ego ( in the Fichtean sense )― to which they are now objects.

Adams contended that once such a special class had been created it became a vested interest and sought to maintain itself by assuming exclusive control over the relationships between God and man.

There are some passages in the writings of Irenaeus where the image of God and the similitude are sharply distinguished, so most notably in the statement: `` If the ( Holy ) Spirit is absent from the soul, such a man is indeed of an animal nature ; ;

The outcome of such an experiment has been in due time the acceptance of the Bible as the Word of God inspired in a sense utterly different from any merely human book, and with it the acceptance of our Lord Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of God, Son of Man by the Virgin Mary, the Saviour of the world.

Here was what was called the American dream, namely, the effort to build a structure which would be something new in history and to do so in such fashion that God could bless it.

Members of some generally non-theistic religions such as Buddhism, tend to believe in an afterlife, but without reference to a God.

His report of life there covers a wide range of topics, such as marriage in heaven ( where all angels are married ), children in heaven ( where they are raised by angel parents ), time and space in heaven ( there are none ), the after-death awakening process in the World of Spirits ( a place halfway between Heaven and Hell and where people first wake up after death ), the allowance of a free will choice between Heaven or Hell ( as opposed to being sent to either one by God ), the eternity of Hell ( one could leave but would never want to ), and that all angels or devils were once people on earth.

Individuals judged by God to be wicked, such as in the Great Flood or at Armageddon, are given no hope of an afterlife.

As such, open theists resolve the issue of human free will and God's sovereignty by claiming that God is sovereign because he does not ordain each human choice, but rather works in cooperation with his creation to bring about his will.

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.

In many Gnostic systems, the various emanations of God, who is also known by such names as the One, the Monad, Aion teleos ( " The Broadest Aeon "), Bythos (" depth or profundity ", Greek ), Proarkhe (" before the beginning ", Greek ), the Arkhe (" the beginning ", Greek ), are called Aeons.

Some scholars believe that the apologetic view of Luke ’ s work is overemphasized and that it should not be regarded as a “ major aim of the Lucan writings .” While Munck believes that purpose of Luke ’ s work is not that clear-cut and sympathizes with other claims, he believes that Luke ’ s work can function as an apology only in the sense that it “ presents a defense of Christianity and Paul ” and may serve to “ clarify the position of Christianity within Jewry and within the Roman Empire .” Pervo disagrees that Luke ’ s work is an apology and even that it could possibly be addressed to Rome because he believes that “ Luke and Acts speak to insiders, believers in Jesus .” Freedman believes that Luke is writing an apology but that his goal is “ not to defend the Christian movement as such but to defend God ’ s ways in history .”

Article 25 of the Thirty-Nine Articles, speaking of the sacraments, says: " Those five commonly called Sacraments, that is to say, Confirmation, Penance, Orders, Matrimony, and extreme Unction, are not to be counted for Sacraments of the Gospel, being such as have grown partly of the corrupt following of the Apostles, partly are states of life allowed in the Scriptures ; but yet have not like nature of Sacraments with Baptism, and the Lord's Supper, for that they have not any visible sign or ceremony ordained of God.

In the Bahá ' í religion God is often referred to by titles and attributes ( for example, the All-Powerful, or the All-Loving ), and there is a substantial emphasis on monotheism ; such doctrines as the Trinity are seen as compromising, if not contradicting, the Bahá ' í view that God is single and has no equal.

According to the Bahá ' í teachings the human purpose is to learn to know and love God through such methods as prayer, reflection, and being of service to humankind.

Ezra is written to fit a schematic pattern in which the God of Israel inspires a king of Persia to commission a leader from the Jewish community to carry out a mission ; three successive leaders carry out three such missions, the first rebuilding the Temple, the second purifying the Jewish community, and the third sealing of the holy city itself behind a wall.

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.

Job knows that no man such as himself, conceived in sin, can appeal to God on his behalf ; so God must do it himself.

Hosea is believed to be the first prophet to use marriage as a metaphor of the covenant between God and Israel, and he influenced latter prophets such as Jeremiah.

Charles Hodge writes that " The subjective change wrought in the soul by the grace of God, is variously designated in Scripture " with terms such as new birth, resurrection, new life, new creation, renewing of the mind, dying to sin and living to righteousness, and translation from darkness to light .< ref name = Hodge1 > Hodge, Charles.

According to the Bible, " God raised him from the dead ", he ascended to heaven, is " seated at the right hand of the Father " and will ultimately return to fulfill the rest of Messianic prophecy such as the Resurrection of the dead, the Last Judgment and final establishment of the Kingdom of God.

But in conquered or ceded countries, that have already laws of their own, the king may indeed alter and change those laws ; but, till he does actually change them, the ancient laws of the country remain, unless such as are against the law of God, as in the case of an infidel country.