It began invariably in low tones, almost conversational, and then gradually worked up to high, shrill appeals to God and man.

From this earth, then, while it was still virgin God took dust and fashioned the man, the beginning of humanity ''.

And He laid down for him certain conditions: so that, if he kept the command of God, then he would always remain as he was, that is, immortal ; ;

The next traditional step then was to accept it as the authoritative textbook of the Christian faith just as one would accept a treatise on any earthly `` science '', and I submitted to its conditions according to Christ's invitation and promise that, `` If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself '' ( John 7: 17 ).

and then, with this God on our side, we can face the whole world without fear.

there was no Martian concept to match it -- unless one took `` church '' and `` worship '' and `` God '' and `` congregation '' and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing-waiting then forced the concept back into English in that phrase which had been rejected ( by each differently ) by Jubal, by Mahmoud, by Digby.

# After one believes, God then regenerates ; one is able to continue believing … able also to resist.

A man who knows that God works through everything cannot sin, because every human act is then the act of God ;

Other major ideas in the book of Amos include: social justice and concern for the disadvantaged ; the idea that Israel's covenant with God did not exempt them from accountability for sin ; God is God of all nations ; God is judge of all nations ; God is God of moral righteousness ; God made all people ; God elected Israel and then liberated Israel so that He would be known throughout the world ; election by God means that those elected are responsible to live according to the purposes clearly outlined to them in the covenant ; if God destroys the unjust, a remnant will remain ; and God is free to judge whether to redeem Israel.

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.

That is, after the period of the eons, all punishment will cease and death is overcome and then God becomes the all in each one ().

Both theist and nontheist philosophers have accepted that, if objective moral truths exist, then God must too exist ; the argument from moral objectivity asserts that objective moral truths do exist, and that God must exist too.

Zophar is the first to accuse Job directly of wickedness ; averring indeed that his punishment is too good for him ( Job 11: 6 ); he rebukes Job's impious presumption in trying to find out the unsearchable secrets of God ( Job 11: 7-12 ); and yet, like the rest of the friends, promises peace and restoration on condition of penitence and putting away iniquity ( Job 11: 13-19 ).

The unbelievers are drowned in a flood, which includes Noah's son ; Noah asks God about this act, but God rebukes Noah as being ignorant and says that Noah's son is " not a member of his family.

John rebukes them, threatening to have his God kill them if they are unable to convince their goddess to make him die on the spot with her divine power.

Looking unto God, the Prophet Isaiah wrote these blessed words almost three thousand years ago: `` Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee ''.

The great Torah scholar, commentator and kabbalist, Nachmanides ( Ramban 1195-1270 ), attributed Job's suffering to reincarnation, as hinted in Job's saying " God does all these things twice or three times with a man, to bring back his soul from the pit to ... the light of the living ' ( Job 33: 29, 30 ).

In On Fate Alexander denied three things-necessity (), the foreknowledge of fated events that was part of the Stoic identification of God and Nature, and determinism in the sense of a sequence of causes that was laid down beforehand () or predetermined by antecedents ().

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.

As the three cardinal doctrines of Judaism, Abba Mari accentuates: ( 1 ) That of the recognition of God's existence and of His absolute sovereignty, eternity, unity, and incorporeality, as taught in revelation, especially in the Decalogue ; ( 2 ) that of the world's creation by Him out of nothing, as evidenced particularly by the Sabbath ; ( 3 ) that of the special providence of God, as manifested in the Biblical miracles.

( Chapter 1 is the first of three important moments in Joshua marked with major speeches and reflections by the main characters ; here first God and then Joshua make speeches about the goal of conquest of the Promised Land ; at chapter 12, Joshua looks back on the conquest ; and at chapter 23 Joshua gives a speech about what must be done if Israel is to live in peace in the land ).

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 seen by Nebuchadnezzar, a fourth figure appears in the furnace with the three and God is credited for preserving them from the flames.

Because Daniel continues to pray three times a day to God towards Jerusalem, he is accused and King Darius, forced by his own decree, throws Daniel into the lions ' den.

The " servant of Yahweh " can be interpreted as any of three plausible characters: the first is an individual chosen by God, like Moses, Hezekiah, Josiah, Cyrus, etc., who is identified as a messianic figure of the future.

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

Trinity refers to the teaching that the one God comprises three distinct, eternally co-existing persons ; the Father, the Son ( incarnate in Jesus Christ ), and the Holy Spirit.

In the words of the Athanasian Creed, an early statement of Christian belief, " the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three Gods but one God ".

Non-Trinitarianism includes all Christian belief systems that reject, wholly or partly, the doctrine of the Trinity, namely, the teaching that God is three distinct yet coeternal and coequal hypostases who are indivisibly united in one essence.

Similar to the covenantal system, but emphasizes the Kingdom of God rather than the three covenants.

" She spent the next three years investigating the law of God according to the Bible, especially in the words and works of Jesus.

They represent a trinity in unity, three in one, — the same in essence, though multi-form in office: God the Father-Mother ; Christ the spiritual idea of sonship ; divine Science or the Holy Comforter.

The three largest Jewish denominations — Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism — maintain the belief that the Jews have been chosen by God for a purpose.

Christianity posits that God exists as a Trinity ; in this view God exists as three distinct persons who share a single divine essence, or substance.

Doubts thus inculcated left me floundering for a while and, like some higher critical friends, trying to continue to use the Bible as the Word of God while at the same time holding it to have been subjected to a vast number of redactions and interpolations: attempting to bridge the chasm between an older, reverent, Bible-loving generation and a critical, doubting, Bible-emancipated race.

What interests him, he tells Rieux, is how to become a saint, even though he does not believe in God .</ br > Later in the novel, Tarrou tells Rieux, with whom he has become friends, the story of his life.

On his return from a business trip from Yemen, he was informed by friends that in his absence Muhammad had declared himself the Messenger of God, and proclaimed a new religion.

James VanderKam and Peter W. Flint further explain that the stories of Daniel and his friends, set in Babylon during the Exile, encouraged readers to remain faithful to God and to refuse compromise in the face of their oppressors, and offered the prospect of triumph over wickedness and idolatry.

It relates the story of Job, his trials at the hands of Satan, his discussions with friends on the origins and nature of his suffering, his challenge to God, and finally a response from God.

After several rounds of debate between Job and his friends, in a divine voice, described as coming from a " cloud " or " whirlwind ", God describes, in evocative and lyrical language, what the experience of being the creator of the world is like, and rhetorically asks if Job has ever had the experiences or the authority that God has had.

In the epilogue, God condemns Job's friends for their ignorance and lack of understanding while commending Job for his righteous words, commands them to prepare burnt offerings and reassures them that Job will pray for their forgiveness.

He is not mentioned in Job 2: 11, in which Job's friends are introduced, nor is he mentioned at all in the epilogue, 42: 7-10, in which God expresses anger at Job's friends.

In the narrative there are conversations that occur between Job and family, Job and friends, and Job and God.

According to Maimonides ( III 22 – 23 ), each of Job's friends represents famous, distinct schools of thought concerning God and divine providence.

Surrounded by Crito, his grieving friends and students, he is teaching, philosophizing, and in fact, thanking the God of Health, Asclepius, for the hemlock brew which will ensure a peaceful death ...

Erasmus used the Holbein portraits as gifts for his friends in England, such as William Warham, the Archbishop of Canterbury ( as he writes in a letter to Warham regarding the gift portrait, Erasmus quips that " he might have something of Erasmus should God call him from this place.

" ( John 3: 16 – 17, NIV ) John also wrote, " Dear friends, let us love one another for love comes from God.

After a comprehensive statement of the varied reasons slavery goes against “ the laws of God, man, and nature ,” the Conference answered in the affirmative to the question, “ do we pass our disapprobation on all our friends who keep slaves and advise their freedom ?” This position was put into action in 1783.

He lived in Athens as a vegetarian bachelor, prosperous and generous to his friends, until the end of his life, except for a voluntary one year exile, which was designed to lessen the pressure put on him by his political-philosophical activity, little appreciated by the Christian rulers ; he spent the exile traveling and being initiated into various mystery cults as befitted his universalist approach to religion, trying to become " a priest of the entire universe ", worshiping all forms of the One God.

In the second edition, Darwin added an epigraph from Joseph Butler affirming that God could work through scientific laws as much as through miracles, in a nod to the religious concerns of his oldest friends.

His three friends insist that God never allows bad things to happen to good people, and assert that Job must have done something to deserve his punishment.

In the end God states that the three friends were incorrect, and that Job was incorrect for assuming he could question God.

We would ask him questions like, " Dave, when did you and God become such good friends?

The Italians should bear in mind and repeat every hour the old saying: " God watch over my friends, so that I can watch over my enemies.