Again, as faith reveals God my Father and Christ my Saviour, I follow without question where He leads me daily by His Spirit of love, wisdom, power and prayer.

Another character, Father Paneloux, uses the plague as an opportunity to advance his stature in the town by suggesting that the plague was an act of God punishing the citizens ' sinful nature.

AD 250 – 336 ), a Christian presbyter in Alexandria, Egypt, concerning the relationship of the persons of the Trinity (' God the Father ', ' God the Son ' ( Jesus of Nazareth ), and ' God the Holy Spirit ') and the precise nature of the Son of God as being a subordinate entity to God the Father.

The Arian concept of Christ is that the Son of God did not always exist, but was created by — and is therefore distinct from — God the Father.

Arius taught that God the Father and the Son did not exist together eternally.

Arians taught that the pre-incarnate Jesus was a divine being created by ( and therefore inferior to ) God the Father at some point, before which the Son did not exist.

The letter of Auxentius, a 4th-century Arian bishop of Milan, regarding the missionary Ulfilas, gives the clearest picture of Arian beliefs on the nature of the Trinity: God the Father (" unbegotten "), always existing, was separate from the lesser Jesus Christ (" only-begotten "), born before time began and creator of the world.

The Father was seen as " the only true God ".

In 321, Arius was denounced by a synod at Alexandria for teaching a heterodox view of the relationship of Jesus to God the Father.

Under Arianism, Christ was instead not consubstantial with God the Father since both the Father and the Son under Arius were made of " like " essence or being ( see homoiousia ) but not of the same essence or being ( see homoousia ).

It is all that subsists by itself and which has not its being in another, God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit all being uncreated.

According to the teaching of Arius, the preexistent Logos and thus the incarnate Jesus Christ was a created being ; that only the Son was directly created and begotten by God the Father, before ages, but was of a distinct, though similar, essence or substance from the Creator ; his opponents argued that this would make Jesus less than God, and that this was heretical.

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

The friend insists, then, that even though we might postulate that there is a first cause behind all things — God — we can't infer anything about the afterlife, because we don't know anything of the afterlife from experience, and we can't infer it from the existence of God.

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.

Men who gave themselves and their souls completely into the keeping of God were no longer expected to stay behind the walls of a cloister.

It is narrated in the < U > memoirs of the apostles </ U > that as soon as Jesus came up out of the river Jordan and a voice said to him: ' You are My Son, this day I have begotten you ', this Devil came and tempted him, even so far as to exclaim: ' Worship me '; but Christ replied: ' Get behind me, Satanas, the Lord your God shall you worship, and Him only shall you serve '.

Kid Rock released several studio albums that mostly went unnoticed before his 1998 record Devil Without a Cause, released with Atlantic Records, sold 11 million albums behind the hits, " Bawitdaba ", " Cowboy ", and " Only God Knows Why ".

It should be however noted that although it is usual to speak of Vishnu as the source of the avataras, this is only one of the names of the God of Vaishnavism, who is also known as Narayana, Vasudeva and Krishna and behind each of those names there is a divine figure with attributed supremacy in Vaishnavism.

In panentheism, God is viewed as the eternal animating force behind the universe.

This passage, along with the phrase in 1 Peter that God did " not leave his soul in Hades ," is the theological basis behind the statement " He descended into Hades " in the Apostles ' Creed.

The rationale behind Segal's reasoning was that it is disrespectful to combine a Name of God with another word.

He believed that the Christian idea of God was very similar to the Platonic concept of " the Good ," in that God represented the principle behind all other principles.

In the futurist view of Christian eschatology, the Tribulation is a relatively short period of time where anyone who chose not to follow God up until the Rapture and was therefore left behind ( according to Pre-Tribulation doctrine, not Mid-or Post-Tribulation teaching ) will experience worldwide hardships, disasters, famine, war, pain, and suffering, which will wipe out more than 75 % of all life on the earth before the Second Coming takes place.

* August 28 – Augustine dies during the siege of Hippo Regius at age 75, leaving behind his monumental work The City of God and other works that will have influence on Christianity.

" Essex also asserted that Cecil had stated that none in the world but the Infanta of Spain had right to the Crown of England, whereupon Cecil ( who had been following the trial at a doorway concealed behind some tapestry ) stepped out to make a dramatic denial, going down on his knees to give thanks to God for the opportunity.

It is worth mentioning that early Muslims who visited India believed they saw the worship of one true God behind the mask of several deities.

The emperor concluded that God had given Widukind the grace of witnessing the divine child, Jesus, behind the Sacred Host of the Mass.

The reredos behind the main altar features a painting of Christ, a statue of Saint Joseph, and two carved figures: a dove represents the Holy Spirit, and at the top sits God the Father with detailed golden rays surrounding him.

Morelos adopted the Virgin as the seal of his Congress of Chilpancingo, inscribing her feast day into the Chilpancingo constitution and declaring that Guadalupe was the power behind his victories: New Spain puts less faith in its own efforts than in the power of God and the intercession of its Blessed Mother, who appeared within the precincts of Tepeyac as the miraculous image of Guadalupe that had come to comfort us, defend us, visibly be our protection.

However, the principle behind the Al Wefaq's boycott, that only elected MPs should have the right to legislate, was undermined when, in response to proposed changes to the family law to give women more rights, Al Wefaq stated that no one except religious leaders had the authority to amend the law because MPs could ' misinterpret the word of God.

:" 17 “ Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt, 18 how he attacked you on the way when you were faint and weary, and cut off your tail, those who were lagging behind you, and he did not fear God.

In this drama, Margaret is depicted as the power behind the throne, a hardened woman of fanatical devotion to both God and herself.

He understood the ability of music to get behind people's gates, to draw them in with a beautiful melody and good words, to make people drop their defensive position to the gospel — even if for a short time — and allow God to speak to them in that moment .... Norman's songs sought to have a relevance to life on the street, establishing a rapport with the musical and social culture around him, and leading his listeners to look to Jesus for the answers in their search for meaning.

After hearing the guards ' story, the chorus comments, " My lord, the thought has risen in my mind :/ Do we not see in this the hand of God?

" Step By Step ", a song written by good friend Beaker and included on volume one, and incorporated into " Sometimes By Step " with additional lyrics by Mullins on volume two, became an instant hit on Christian Radio, and, like " Awesome God ", it became a popular praise chorus.

Glory to God in the highest ( chorus )

Behold the Lamb of God ( chorus )

He trusted in God that he would deliver him ( chorus )

Let all the angels of God worship Him ( chorus )

But thanks be to God ( chorus )

After their introduction in the Part I chorus " Glory to God ", apart from the solo in " The trumpets shall sound " they are heard only in " Hallelujah " and the final chorus " Worthy is the Lamb ".

The music proceeds through various key changes as the prophecies unfold, culminating in the G major chorus " For unto us a child is born ", in which the choral exclamations ( which include an ascending fourth in " the Mighty God ") are imposed on material drawn from Handel's Italian cantata Nò, di voi non vo ' fidarmi.

The final recitative of this section is in D major and heralds the affirmative chorus " Glory to God ".

The declamatory opening chorus " Behold the Lamb of God ", in fugal form, is followed by the alto solo " He was despised " in E flat major, the longest single item in the oratorio, in which some phrases are sung unaccompanied to emphasise Christ's abandonment.

The duet runs straight into the chorus " But thanks be to God ".

Shorter choral works written around this time include the carol-anthem Long long ago ( 1951 ), the introit Behold O God our Defender for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, and The House of the Mind ( 1954 ) for chorus and strings.

* Now Thank We All Our God for mixed chorus and organ, Op.

* The Great God Pan, a Choral Ballet for solo voices, chorus and orchestra ( Sheffield Festival 1920 )

* God so loved the world ( chorus from The Crucifixion )

* 3 Chants: no. 1, To an Unkind God, no. 2 To an Angel, no. 3, female chorus, 1930

The Leader of the Opposition immediately rose to applaud these measures, and the session ended with Liberal and Conservative members joining in a rousing chorus of God Save the King.

* As God the Lord of Sabaoth liveth ( Elijah, Ahab, chorus )

* Thanks be to God ( chorus )

* Be not afraid, saith God the Lord ( chorus )

He directed the chorus of student nurses of LDS Hospital ( 1942 – 48 ), and wrote the words to God of Power, God of Right which is Hymn # 20 in the 1985 Latter-day Saints Hymnal.