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More significantly, in the section titled, "The Obedience of Subjects unto Kings, Princes and Rulers," Tyndale states that the "powers that be" (36) are powers ordained by God, and that resistance to earthly authority is resistance to God's authority, but the bishops have usurped earthly authority from secular rulers, and therefore, they must ...
And lastly, kings are compared to the head of this microcosm of the body of man. [22] James's reference to "God's lieutenants" is apparently a reference to the text in Romans 13 where Paul refers to "God's ministers". (1) Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Christ sits at the right hand of God, crowned in glory as "King of kings and Lord of lords". [22] "God put this power to work in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but ...
From this perspective, God alone possesses free-will in the sense of ultimate self-determination. [30] Moreover, God acts through voluntarism in its nominalist sense. [31] This means, what God does is good not because it is guided by his character or moral structure within his nature, but only because God wants it. [32]
Dominion theology is a reference to the King James Bible's rendering of Genesis 1:28 in which God grants humanity "dominion" over the Earth.. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."
We did what God put us here to do.” ... “We want everyone to know how quickly we reacted — not for recognition, but for their peace of mind,” he added. “It wasn’t hours or minutes. It ...
Papal supremacy is the doctrine of the Catholic Church that the Pope, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, the visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful, and as pastor of the entire Catholic Church, has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered: [1] that, in ...
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