History is divided into ( typically seven ) " dispensations " where God tests man's obedience differently.

The author describes various tests by which readers may ascertain whether or not their communion with God is genuine, and teaches that the proof of spiritual regeneration is a life of active righteousness.

For example, a statement such as " God created the universe " may be true or false, but no tests can be devised that could prove it either way ; it simply lies outside the reach of science.

relates the binding of Isaac, in which God tests Abraham by asking him to present his son, Isaac, as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah.

In the Bible's version of the story, God tests Abraham by asking him to present his son, Isaac, as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah.

According to Catholic theologians, demonic assault can be involuntary and allowed by God to test a person ( for more details about God's tests on persons see Job ).

" Yes, when in mournful moments we want to strengthen and encourage our minds by contemplating those great men, your chosen instruments, who in severe spiritual trials and anxieties of heart kept their minds free, their courage uncrushed, and heaven open, we, too, wish to add our witness to theirs in the assurance that even if our courage compared to theirs is only discouragement, our power powerlessness, you, however, are still the same, the same mighty God who tests spirits in conflict, the same Father without whose will not one sparrow falls to the ground.

The ensuing journey sees Max embrace his Divine Right, as he takes control of the situation, and ultimately the universe, only to face off against the WildC. A. T. S., Gen13, The Fallen, and even Susanna herself, as he truly tests the limits of what God can do, and how much humanity can be retained.

Maimonides deals with the problem of evil ( for which people are considered to be responsible because of free will ), trials and tests ( especially those of Job and the story of the Binding of Isaac ) as well as other aspects traditionally attached to God in theology, such as providence and omniscience: " Maimonides endeavors to show that evil has no positive existence, but is a privation of a certain capacity and does not proceed from God ; when, therefore, evils are mentioned in Scripture as sent by God, the Scriptural expressions must be explained allegorically.

* J. B. – based on the biblical character Job ; a man confronted by many tests of his faith in God.

At several points in the Bible God tests his followers, and this could be a plea to avoid such unpleasant testing.

Granted this scriptural passage, it only makes sense that Jesus was required to pass these tests before God without relying on powers that other men do not have.

These three propositions were further developed by his followers, who maintained that God revealed Himself in a threefold revelation, the first in the Biblical patriarch Abraham, marking the epoch of the Father ; the second in Jesus Christ, who began the epoch of the Son ; and the third in Amalric and his disciples, who inaugurated the era of the Holy Ghost.

David A. Clines, in his influential The Themes of the Pentateuch ( 1978 ), identified the overarching theme of the five books as the partial fulfilment of a promise to made by God to the patriarchs, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

The next is between God and Abraham, and the third between God and all Israel at Mount Sinai.

According to the Bible, God commanded Abraham in the Binding of Isaac to sacrifice his son, but ultimately provided a ram as a substitute.

Three angels hosted by Abraham by Ludovico Carracci: The three angels represent the Godhead ( Christianity ) | three persons of God.

Divine revelation for the direction of the entire church comes from God to the President of the Church, who is viewed by Latter-day Saints as a prophet in the same sense as Noah, Abraham, Moses, Peter, and other biblical leaders.

At the directive of God / Allah, Prophet Abraham took Hagar as a concubine with the permission of his wife Sarah, who was infertile ( according to Islamic sources ).

Traditionally, both Judaism and Christianity believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, for Jews the God of the Tanakh, for Christians the God of the Old Testament, the creator of the universe.

It is the stage of Abraham our father whom the Holy One, blessed be God, called " My friend " ( Isaiah 41: 8 — ohavi

This position has been softened by some adherents, or completely rejected by other churches where Jews are recognized to have a special status due to their covenant with God through Abraham, so this continues to be an area of ongoing dispute among Christians.

Christadelphians believe that he will return to the earth in person to set up the Kingdom of God in fulfilment of the promises made to Abraham and David.

" God tells Moses to return to Egypt and lead the Hebrews into Canaan, the land promised to Abraham.

Israel is elected for salvation because the " sons of Israel " are " the firstborn son " of the God of Israel, descended through Shem and Abraham to the chosen line of Jacob whose name is changed to Israel.

" Moved by a faith like that of Abraham ( Romans 4: 17, Hebrews 11: 19 ), Elijah prays that God might restore her son so that the veracity and trustworthiness of God's word might be demonstrated.

: " For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory ; but not before God.

Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

The new post-Flood world is equally corrupt, but God does not destroy it, instead calling one man, Abraham, to be the seed of its salvation.

At God's command Abraham descends from his home into the land of Canaan, given to him by God, where he dwells as a sojourner, as does his son Isaac and his grandson Jacob.

The narrative is punctuated by a series of covenants with God, successively narrowing in scope from all mankind ( the covenant with Noah ) to a special relationship with one people alone ( Abraham and his descendants through Isaac and Jacob ).

The " patriarchal history " recounts the events of the major patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to whom God reveals himself and to whom the promise of descendants and land is made, while the story of Joseph serves to take the Israelites into Egypt in preparation for the next book, Exodus.

God instructs Abram ( the future Abraham ) to travel from his home in Mesopotamia ( modern Iraq ) to the land of Canaan.

Abraham asks God that Ishmael " might live in Thy sight ," ( that is, be favoured ), but God replies that Sarah will bear a son, who will be named Isaac, through whom the covenant will be established.

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

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 ''.

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 ''.

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 ''.

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 ''.

Religion and the churches were institutions which had been created by man, not God.

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.

His very honest act called up the recent talk I had with another minister, a modest Methodist, who said: `` I feel so deeply blessed by God when I can give a message of love and comfort to other men, and I would have it no other way: and it is unworthy to think of self.

Normal, by God.

`` They'll get them by God and let them bring them down here to me, just let them, God, I'll slice their balls right off.

If I hafta do this to stay alive by God I'll do it.

Furthermore, Bern decrees that we must do as we are ordered by the Council, preach only the word of God and stop meddling in politics ''!!

In blind panic of grief she accepted Jonathan's dictum, and believed in her desperation that she had been cursed by God.

You never knew about it, but by God, we taught them respect for Captain Androfski ''.

He'd come East for the christening, by God he would.

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.

Moreover, man may not supplant or frustrate the physical arrangements established by God, who through the law of rhythm has provided a natural method for the control of conception.

In 1958, the Conference endorsed birth control as the responsibility laid by God on parents everywhere.

When you see them again give them my love -- not best respects now, but love by God ''.

Another Yankee became so disgusted as to state: `` I wish to God one half of our officers were knocked in the head by slinging them against ( the other half ) ''.

A stronger stand on their beliefs and a firmer grasp on their future were taken Friday by delegates to the 29th general council of the Assemblies of God, in session at the Memorial Coliseum.

-- Encouraging by every means, all existing Assemblies of God churches to start new churches.

But, as Scripture everywhere reminds us, God does have need of his creatures, and the church, a fortiori, can ill afford to do without the talents with which the world, by God's providence, presents it.