This is one of the oldest claims to the author ’ s purpose ( Walton ) and it states that Luke is writing to Rome in order to demonstrate that Christianity is not a political threat to Roman authority.

Though a minimum of three bishops participating is desirable ( there are usually several more ) in order to demonstrate collegiality, canonically only one bishop is necessary.

Noth maintained that the history was written in the early Exilic period ( 6th century BCE ) in order to demonstrate how Israel's history was worked out in accordance with the theology expressed in the book of Deuteronomy ( which thus provides the name " Deuteronomistic ").

The policy prohibited people who " demonstrate a propensity or intent to engage in homosexual acts " from serving in the armed forces of the United States, because their presence " would create an unacceptable risk to the high standards of morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion that are the essence of military capability.

Common to all gridiron codes is the notion of control — a receiver must demonstrate control of the ball in order to be ruled in possession of it, while still in bounds, as defined by his code.

In the graphic novel Watchmen, the character The Comedian / Edward Blake displays and is characterized as being a nihilist, both moral and political, to the extent of openly committing murder in order to demonstrate the lack of human concern or nerve ( stating that Dr. Manhattan could have stopped him at any moment, but chose not to ).

Selective reporting has a compounded effect on meta-analysis, which is a statistical technique that aggregates the results of many studies in order to generate sufficient statistical power to demonstrate a result that the individual studies themselves could not demonstrate at a statistically significant level.

In order to gain approval from the Sporting Goods department, Quinn suggested Atari demonstrate the game to executives in Chicago.

Thus, it is not enough to demonstrate that you have suffered the wrong in order to win a tort case, you must also have legally recognized damages that were directly or indirectly caused by the tortfeasor as a result of the tort, and be able to prove the extent of those damages.

Statistically, the receiver has a 20 % chance of randomly guessing the correct symbol, so in order to demonstrate telepathy, they must repeatedly score a success rate that is significantly higher than 20 %.

In Parts II and III he analyzes specific portions of the Bible in order to demonstrate that it is not the revealed word of God.

OXO, a graphical version of tic-tac-toe, was created by A. S. Douglas in 1952 at the University of Cambridge, in order to demonstrate his thesis on human-computer interaction.

* Vesalius was a supporter of ' parallel dissections ' in which an animal cadaver and a human cadaver are dissected simultaneously in order to demonstrate the anatomical differences and thus uncover Galenic errors.

According to Simplicius, Diogenes the Cynic said nothing upon hearing Zeno's arguments, but stood up and walked, in order to demonstrate the falsity of Zeno's conclusions.

Heidegger's novel ideas about ontology required a gestalt formation, not merely a series of logical arguments, in order to demonstrate his fundamentally new paradigm of thinking, and the hermeneutic circle offered a new and powerful tool for the articulation and realization of these ideas.

Apart from the primary aspects of the expedition, Heyerdahl deliberately selected a crew representing a great diversity in race, nationality, religion and political viewpoint in order to demonstrate that at least on their own little floating island, people could cooperate and live peacefully.

Although he never explicitly exposed it, Durkheim adopted a realist perspective in order to demonstrate the existence of social realities outside the individual and to show that these realities existed in the form of the objective relations of society.

The mission's goals were to study the surface and atmosphere of Mars during close flybys, in order to establish the basis for future investigations, particularly those relevant to the search for extraterrestrial life, and to demonstrate and develop technologies required for future Mars missions.

From this shared starting point social contract theorists seek to demonstrate, in different ways, why a rational individual would voluntarily consent to give up his or her natural freedom to obtain the benefits of political order.

Is also conceivable, however, that holding the election in Italy was a deliberate choice on the part of Otto II in order to demonstrate that Italy was an equal part of the Empire on the same level as Germany.

He compares genre to an ecosystem in order to demonstrate how writing recreates genres as well as genre recreates writing.

Bawarshi uses the idea of a doctor's office as an ecosystem in order to demonstrate his point more clearly.

He asked his readers to imagine themselves suspended in the air isolated from all sensations in order to demonstrate human self-awareness and self-consciousness, and the substantiality of the soul.

CT produces a volume of data that can be manipulated, through a process known as " windowing ", in order to demonstrate various bodily structures based on their ability to block the X-ray beam.

* Torah Liturgy ( 6: 6 – 8 ): Micah speaks on behalf of the community asking what they should do in order to get back on God's good side.

The Christian view of Jesus as Messiah goes beyond such claims and is the fulfillment and union of three anointed offices ; a prophet like Moses who delivers God's commands and covenant and frees people from bondage, a High Priest in the order of Melchizedek overshadowing the Levite priesthood and a king like King David ruling over Jews, and like God ruling over the whole world and coming from the line of David.

Abraham was hesitant, but at God's order he listened to his wife's request.

Some modern Christian theologians argue that God's omniscience is inherent rather than total, and that God chooses to limit his omniscience in order to preserve the freewill and dignity of his creatures.

It teaches that God's predestining decision is based on the knowledge of His own will rather than foreknowledge, concerning every particular person and event ; and, God continually acts with entire freedom, in order to bring about his will in completeness, but in such a way that the freedom of the creature is not violated, " but rather, established "

Augustine's position, and subsequently that of much of Christianity, was that Adam and Eve had the power to topple God's perfect order, thus changing nature by bringing sin into the world, but that the advent of sin then limited mankind's power thereafter to evade the consequences without divine aid.

He proposes that order and continual motion in the world is caused by God's intellect.

The main thrust of his argument was that God's design of the whole creation could be seen in the general happiness, or well-being, that was evident in the physical and social order of things.

" God's plan for the world is that men should work together to renew and constantly perfect the temporal order.

These two sounds, constituting a single unit of shofar sounding, were rendered three times during a service added specially for Rosh HaShanah: first in honor of God's Kingship ( malchiot ); next to recall the near sacrifice of Isaac, in order to cause the congregation to be remembered before God ( zichronot ); and a third time to comply with the precept regarding the shofar ( shofrot ).

These included such arguments as that the view is void of good news ; repugnant to God's wise, just, and good nature, and to man's free nature ; " highly dishonorable to Jesus Christ "; " hurtful to the salvation of men "; and that it " inverts the order of the gospel of Jesus Christ " ( which is that we are justified after we believe, not prior to our believing ).

As such, the word " economy ", and the concept attaching to it, are utilized especially with regard to two types of " handling ": ( a ) divine economy, that is, God's " handling " or " management " of the fallen state of the world and of mankind — the arrangements he made in order to bring about man's salvation after the Fall ; and ( b ) what might be termed pastoral economy ( or ) ecclesiastical economy, that is, the Church's " handling " or " management " of various pastoral and disciplinary questions, problems, and issues that have arisen through the centuries of Church history.

Human history is the record of God's and Man's efforts to make these reparations over time in order that conditions can be fulfilled so that God can send the Messiah, who comes to initiate the complete restoration process.

He urged readers to view with contempt anyone who had " openly rebelled against God's order or commandments " and also described elective elders of the 1930s who refused to submit to Watch Tower Society administrative changes as " despicable ".

He defined it as God's household (" oikos ") law or arrangement (" nomos ") for dispensing Himself into His chosen and redeemed people as their life, life supply, and all in all, in order to gain a corporate expression of Himself through the building up of the church which will consummate in the New Jerusalem in eternity.

On her visit to Solomon she told him that a piece of wood from the bridge would bring about the replacement of God's Covenant with the Jewish people, by a new order.

* In the Christian fiction novel The Face of God, by Bill Myers, the pastor Daniel Lawson and terrorist Ibrahim el-Magd race to find the Urim and Thummim, as well as the twelve stones of the sacred breastplate, in order to hear God's voice.

Therefore, the organization continually studies for greater knowledge of God's design for His Church and attempts to better align itself to the New Testament teachings of Christianity in order to continually grow and develop into the " fullness of the stature of Christ ".

They believe their door-to-door preaching is part of a " sign " before God's kingdom destroys the world's governments, in order to have God's will done on earth as it is in heaven.

The notion of God's kingdom on Earth, however, constitutes the establishment of and adherence to Allah's laws within human society, in order to maintain a lasting peace and unity within the lives of the devout, at all levels.

Lahiri taught that if one is earning an honest living and practicing honesty, then there was no need to alter one's external life in any significant way in order to become aware of God's presence.

A distinction is usually made between " general providence ", which refers to God's continuous upholding the existence and natural order of the universe, and " special providence ", which refers to God's extraordinary intervention in the life of people.

" Thus, in order to strictly adhere to God's will, The Church of Jesus Christ only accepts revelation as supported by the Bible and the Book of Mormon.