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.

The God of Death Yama sends his representatives to collect the soul from a person's body whenever he is due for death and they take the soul to Yama.

Scholars agree that the Deuteronomists ' hand can be seen in Judges through the book's cyclical nature: the Israelites fall into idolatry, God punishes them for their sins with oppression by foreign peoples, the Israelites cry out to God for help, and God sends a judge to deliver them from the foreign oppression.

Initially grateful, Jonah's anger returns the next day, when God sends a worm to eat the plant, withering it, and he tells God that it would be better if he were dead.

God sends an evil spirit to torment Saul () and his attendants suggest he send for David, a young warrior famed for his bravery and for his skill with the harp.

When the brook dries up, God sends him to a widow living in the town of Zarephatho in Phoenicia.

God again speaks to Elijah and sends him to confront Ahab with a question and a prophecy: " Have you killed and also taken possession?

God pronounces the world " very good ", but it becomes corrupted by the sin of man and God sends a deluge ( a great flood ) to destroy it, saving only the righteous ( Noah ) and his family, from whose seed the world is repopulated.

In this testament, God sends the archangel Michael to Isaac in order to inform him of his impending death.

* 1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message " What hath God wrought " ( a biblical quotation, Numbers 23: 23 ) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland to inaugurate the first telegraph line.

Dining together, Jesse's sons are brought one by one to Samuel, each time being rejected by him, speaking for God ; running out of sons, Jesse sends for David, the youngest, who was tending sheep.

God makes David successful wherever Saul sends him.

Grace's fame has endured and his large beard in particular remains familiar ; for example, Monty Python and the Holy Grail uses his image as " the face of God " during the sequence in which God sends the knights out on their quest for the grail.

The premise of Everyman is that God, believing that the people on earth are too focused on wealth and worldly possessions, sends Death to Everyman to remind him of God's power and the importance of upholding values.

In Exodus 7 ( Parshat Va ' eira in the Torah ), God sends Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh once more, instructing Aaron that when Pharaoh demands to see a miracle, he is to " cast down his rod " and it will become a serpent.

Yet despite these events God does not forget his people, but sends Cyrus, king of Persia as his messiah to deliver them from bondage.

Balaam sends back word that he can only do what YHWH commands, and God has, via a nocturnal dream, told him not to go.

Moab consequently sends higher ranking priests and offers Balaam honours ; Balaam, in his coveteousness, continues to press God, and God finally gives him over to his greed and permits him to go but with instructions to say only what he commands.

Wim, also known as " He of Many Chances ", proves to be an inefficient saviour, as God sends him on a quest for Ultimate Truth.

Piepsam's fatal rage arises not only because he cannot stop the cyclist, but also because God will not stop him ; ;

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.

He ascribes to the mercy of God the peace which this personal matter -- the assurance that he can physically sustain the burden of the office longer than any individual in the history of our nation has been able to do -- has brought him.

Like Lincoln, he can distinguish his relation to God from the constitutional responsibilities a questionable decision exacts of him.

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 ''.

For him to divorce God and wife simultaneously would be bad publicity.

`` And Jesus, when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him ''.

he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove to alight upon him '' ; ;

On these excursions, Papa instructed him on man's chief end, which was his duty to God and his own salvation.

The cold, mysterious presence of God was all around him.

Someday God would choose him.

Unless God expected a man to believe the Holy Scriptures, why had He given them to him??

-- Let me help him, for the love of God!!

They have insisted, rather, on living fully and completely within modern culture and, so far from considering this treason to God, have looked upon it as the only way they could be faithful to him.

in the similitude of God he created him ''.

`` So that the man should not have thoughts of grandeur, and become lifted up, as if he had no lord, because of the dominion that had been given to him, and the freedom, fall into sin against God his Creator, overstepping his bounds, and take up an attitude of self-conceited arrogance towards God, a law was given him by God, that he might know that he had for lord the lord of all.