Author: Robert Henderson
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN: 0768413834
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Why do some people pray in agreement with Gods will, heart and timing, yet the desired answers do not come? Why would God not respond when we pray from the earnestness of our hearts? What is the problem, or better yet, what is the solution? Robert Henderson believes the answer is found in where your prayer actually takes place. We must direct our prayer towards the Courts of Heaven and not only the battlefield. Robert shows that it is in the courtrooms of Heaven where our breakthroughs can be found. When you learn to operate there you will see your answers unlocked and released. This book will teach you the legal processes of Heaven and how to operate in its courts. When you get off the battlefield and into the courtroom you can grant God the legal clearance to fulfill His passion and answer your prayers.
Operating in the Courts of Heaven
Author: Robert Henderson
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN: 0768413834
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Why do some people pray in agreement with Gods will, heart and timing, yet the desired answers do not come? Why would God not respond when we pray from the earnestness of our hearts? What is the problem, or better yet, what is the solution? Robert Henderson believes the answer is found in where your prayer actually takes place. We must direct our prayer towards the Courts of Heaven and not only the battlefield. Robert shows that it is in the courtrooms of Heaven where our breakthroughs can be found. When you learn to operate there you will see your answers unlocked and released. This book will teach you the legal processes of Heaven and how to operate in its courts. When you get off the battlefield and into the courtroom you can grant God the legal clearance to fulfill His passion and answer your prayers.
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN: 0768413834
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Why do some people pray in agreement with Gods will, heart and timing, yet the desired answers do not come? Why would God not respond when we pray from the earnestness of our hearts? What is the problem, or better yet, what is the solution? Robert Henderson believes the answer is found in where your prayer actually takes place. We must direct our prayer towards the Courts of Heaven and not only the battlefield. Robert shows that it is in the courtrooms of Heaven where our breakthroughs can be found. When you learn to operate there you will see your answers unlocked and released. This book will teach you the legal processes of Heaven and how to operate in its courts. When you get off the battlefield and into the courtroom you can grant God the legal clearance to fulfill His passion and answer your prayers.
God in the Courtroom
Author: Brian Bornstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The authors review legal developments and behavioural science research concerning the effects of religion on legal practice, decision-making processes of various actors and trial outcomes. Chapters address jury selection and bias, attorneys' use of religion in legal movements, judges' religious belief, and much more.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The authors review legal developments and behavioural science research concerning the effects of religion on legal practice, decision-making processes of various actors and trial outcomes. Chapters address jury selection and bias, attorneys' use of religion in legal movements, judges' religious belief, and much more.
God’s Court and Courtiers in the Book of the Watchers
Author: Philip Francis Esler
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532644493
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
First Enoch is an ancient Judean work that inaugurated the genre of apocalypse. Chapters 1-36 tell the story of the descent of angels called "Watchers" from heaven to earth to marry human women before the time of the flood, the chaos that ensued, and God's response. They also relate the journeying of the righteous scribe Enoch through the cosmos, guided by angels. Heaven, including the place and those who dwell there (God, the angels, and Enoch), plays a central role in the narrative. But how should heaven be understood? Existing scholarship, which presupposes "Judaism" as the appropriate framework, views the Enochic heaven as reflecting the temple in Jerusalem, with God's house replicating its architecture and the angels and Enoch functioning like priests. Yet recent research shows the Judeans constituted an ethnic group, and this view encourages a fresh examination of 1 Enoch 1-36. The actual model for heaven proves to be a king in his court surrounded by his courtiers. The major textual features are explicable in this perspective, whereas the temple-and-priests model is unconvincing. The author was a member of a nontemple, scribal group in Judea that possessed distinctive astronomical knowledge, promoted Enoch as its exemplar, and was involved in the wider sociopolitical world of their time.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532644493
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
First Enoch is an ancient Judean work that inaugurated the genre of apocalypse. Chapters 1-36 tell the story of the descent of angels called "Watchers" from heaven to earth to marry human women before the time of the flood, the chaos that ensued, and God's response. They also relate the journeying of the righteous scribe Enoch through the cosmos, guided by angels. Heaven, including the place and those who dwell there (God, the angels, and Enoch), plays a central role in the narrative. But how should heaven be understood? Existing scholarship, which presupposes "Judaism" as the appropriate framework, views the Enochic heaven as reflecting the temple in Jerusalem, with God's house replicating its architecture and the angels and Enoch functioning like priests. Yet recent research shows the Judeans constituted an ethnic group, and this view encourages a fresh examination of 1 Enoch 1-36. The actual model for heaven proves to be a king in his court surrounded by his courtiers. The major textual features are explicable in this perspective, whereas the temple-and-priests model is unconvincing. The author was a member of a nontemple, scribal group in Judea that possessed distinctive astronomical knowledge, promoted Enoch as its exemplar, and was involved in the wider sociopolitical world of their time.
God on Trial
Author: Peter H. Irons
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670038510
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
A detailed examination of five recent landmark court battles over the separation of church and state offers coverage of the cases from both sides, from the 1989 challenge of a cross in a San Diego public park to the 2004 fight by parents who objected to the Dover, Pennsylvania, school board's decision to mandate the teaching of intelligent design.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670038510
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
A detailed examination of five recent landmark court battles over the separation of church and state offers coverage of the cases from both sides, from the 1989 challenge of a cross in a San Diego public park to the 2004 fight by parents who objected to the Dover, Pennsylvania, school board's decision to mandate the teaching of intelligent design.
God in the Courtroom
Author: Guy Bechor
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004209743
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
This volume compares the courtroom oaths of both Islamic and modern Egyptian legal systems, blending elements of legal history, comparative law, theology, philosophy and culture.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004209743
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
This volume compares the courtroom oaths of both Islamic and modern Egyptian legal systems, blending elements of legal history, comparative law, theology, philosophy and culture.
Trying Man, Trying God
Author: Meira Z. Kensky
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 9783161504099
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Revised version of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Chicago, 2009.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 9783161504099
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Revised version of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Chicago, 2009.
God Save this Honorable Court
Author: Laurence H. Tribe
Publisher: Random House (NY)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Tribe's new book takes on William Rehnquist, senators seeking a precise litmus test for judicial appointments, champions of judicial restraint, and, sub silentio, Edwin Meese. His study of the political history of High Court appointees demolishes several claims.g., that one justice cannot make a difference in judicial proceedings and myths that of ``strict constructionism,'' with Tribe insisting that literal adherence to the constitutional text abdicates judicial responsibility. So, too, he finds, does the inevitably inconclusive inquiry into the Framers' intent. Then there is the myth of the ``spineless Senate,'' which, he shows, is anything but the case. Tribe's respect for the Court's power is boundless; not that he is uncritical, but he does appreciate its extraordinary influence, and, given it, argues that Senate and nation must subject each nominee to the closest scrutiny. This tightly argued appeal can be readily followed by nonlawyers. It should be heeded. Milton Cantor, History Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst - Library Journal.
Publisher: Random House (NY)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Tribe's new book takes on William Rehnquist, senators seeking a precise litmus test for judicial appointments, champions of judicial restraint, and, sub silentio, Edwin Meese. His study of the political history of High Court appointees demolishes several claims.g., that one justice cannot make a difference in judicial proceedings and myths that of ``strict constructionism,'' with Tribe insisting that literal adherence to the constitutional text abdicates judicial responsibility. So, too, he finds, does the inevitably inconclusive inquiry into the Framers' intent. Then there is the myth of the ``spineless Senate,'' which, he shows, is anything but the case. Tribe's respect for the Court's power is boundless; not that he is uncritical, but he does appreciate its extraordinary influence, and, given it, argues that Senate and nation must subject each nominee to the closest scrutiny. This tightly argued appeal can be readily followed by nonlawyers. It should be heeded. Milton Cantor, History Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst - Library Journal.
Putting God on Trial
Author: Robert Sutherland
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412018471
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Many scholars find the legal metaphor of an Oath of Innocence inappropriate, though for different reasons. Some liberal scholars opt for an aesthetic, not a moral, resolution of the question of evil in the world. They find a sublime beauty in God's review of the animal and physical worlds, Behemoth and Leviathan. But that is all they find. They find no suggestions of moral purpose in God's creation and control of evil. Indeed, they feel none could be forthcoming. God is beyond good and evil so no moral resolution is possible. Since no moral resolution is possible, a legal mataphor such as a lawsuit dramatizing the moral question is inappropriate. They interpret Job to understand that position. And they interpret him to retract the lawsuit in its entirety. This author feels such liberal scholars miss a moral resolution for five reasons. (a) First, they fail to give adequate weight to Satan's first speech in heaven setting out the moral solution. (b) Second, they misinterpret Job's struggle with God to be a request for a restoration of his former position, rather than a request to know the reason behind evil in the world. (c) Third, they fail to appreciate the moral restrictions under which God has to operate. God cannot reveal any moral answers directly without defeating his very purpose in the creation and control of evil. As a result, they miss the suggestions of moral purpose in God's two speeches and the inferences God would have Job draw. (d) Fourth, they fail to fully appreciate the legal dynamics of the enforcement mechanism of Job's Oath of Innocence. In particular, they fail to appreciate the distinction between causal responsibility and moral blameworthiness. Thus, they do not understand God's comments concerning vindication and condemnation in his first speech to Job. And they do not understand Job's hesitation to proceed beyond his own vindication to a condemnation of God in Job's first speech to God. Ultimately, they fail to see Job's adjournment and continuation of his Oath of Innocence implied by the allusion to the story of Abraham and Sodom and Gomorrah in Job's final speech. (e) Finally, they fail to give full expression to God's ultimate judgement on Job. Job and only Job spoke rightly about God. In the face of such a judgement, there is no room to deny the ultimate propriety of the moral and legal question as a way of framing man's encounter with God. Some conservative scholars opt for a moral resolution of the question of evil in the world, but their resolution is equally unsatisfying. They interpret Job's so-called excessive words and his Oath of Innocence to be sins of presumption. Thus they would have Job retract his lawsuit in its entirety and repent morally for either his so-called excessive words, his raising of the lawsuit or both. This author feels such conservative scholars miss a satisfactory moral resolution for three reasons. (a) First, they fail to understand the depth of Satan's challenge to God. It is not merely that Job will curse God. It is that God is wrong in his judgement on Job's goodness. God missed sin in Job's life. Such scholars think their moral resolution is possible, because although Job sins, Job does not actually curse God. Their resolution actually makes Satan right in his challenge of God so that God should step down from his throne and destroy mankind. (b) Second, they fail to give proper weight to Job's blamelessness and integrity. The raising of the Oath of Innocence is an expression of that blamelessness and integrity. It is what God expects of Job, though he cannot tell him that directly. (c) Finally, they fail to give full expression of God's ultimate judgement on Job. Job and only Job spoke rightly about God. In the face of such a judgement, there is no room to attribute sin or wrongdoing to Job for either his so-called excessive words or for his Oath of Innocence. My personal interpretation charts a new middle course between these two-fold horrors
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412018471
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Many scholars find the legal metaphor of an Oath of Innocence inappropriate, though for different reasons. Some liberal scholars opt for an aesthetic, not a moral, resolution of the question of evil in the world. They find a sublime beauty in God's review of the animal and physical worlds, Behemoth and Leviathan. But that is all they find. They find no suggestions of moral purpose in God's creation and control of evil. Indeed, they feel none could be forthcoming. God is beyond good and evil so no moral resolution is possible. Since no moral resolution is possible, a legal mataphor such as a lawsuit dramatizing the moral question is inappropriate. They interpret Job to understand that position. And they interpret him to retract the lawsuit in its entirety. This author feels such liberal scholars miss a moral resolution for five reasons. (a) First, they fail to give adequate weight to Satan's first speech in heaven setting out the moral solution. (b) Second, they misinterpret Job's struggle with God to be a request for a restoration of his former position, rather than a request to know the reason behind evil in the world. (c) Third, they fail to appreciate the moral restrictions under which God has to operate. God cannot reveal any moral answers directly without defeating his very purpose in the creation and control of evil. As a result, they miss the suggestions of moral purpose in God's two speeches and the inferences God would have Job draw. (d) Fourth, they fail to fully appreciate the legal dynamics of the enforcement mechanism of Job's Oath of Innocence. In particular, they fail to appreciate the distinction between causal responsibility and moral blameworthiness. Thus, they do not understand God's comments concerning vindication and condemnation in his first speech to Job. And they do not understand Job's hesitation to proceed beyond his own vindication to a condemnation of God in Job's first speech to God. Ultimately, they fail to see Job's adjournment and continuation of his Oath of Innocence implied by the allusion to the story of Abraham and Sodom and Gomorrah in Job's final speech. (e) Finally, they fail to give full expression to God's ultimate judgement on Job. Job and only Job spoke rightly about God. In the face of such a judgement, there is no room to deny the ultimate propriety of the moral and legal question as a way of framing man's encounter with God. Some conservative scholars opt for a moral resolution of the question of evil in the world, but their resolution is equally unsatisfying. They interpret Job's so-called excessive words and his Oath of Innocence to be sins of presumption. Thus they would have Job retract his lawsuit in its entirety and repent morally for either his so-called excessive words, his raising of the lawsuit or both. This author feels such conservative scholars miss a satisfactory moral resolution for three reasons. (a) First, they fail to understand the depth of Satan's challenge to God. It is not merely that Job will curse God. It is that God is wrong in his judgement on Job's goodness. God missed sin in Job's life. Such scholars think their moral resolution is possible, because although Job sins, Job does not actually curse God. Their resolution actually makes Satan right in his challenge of God so that God should step down from his throne and destroy mankind. (b) Second, they fail to give proper weight to Job's blamelessness and integrity. The raising of the Oath of Innocence is an expression of that blamelessness and integrity. It is what God expects of Job, though he cannot tell him that directly. (c) Finally, they fail to give full expression of God's ultimate judgement on Job. Job and only Job spoke rightly about God. In the face of such a judgement, there is no room to attribute sin or wrongdoing to Job for either his so-called excessive words or for his Oath of Innocence. My personal interpretation charts a new middle course between these two-fold horrors
The Supreme Court of Heaven - Judgement of God - Trilogy 1
Author: Mcebo Michael Metfula
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781977712929
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
There is a court in heaven. It is in session NOW. The Judge is God. The Defendant is God (Christ Jesus). The Plaintiff is Satan. The Witnesses are the people (on earth). God established the Supreme Court of Heaven after the creation of the heavens and the earth. He established it because he had created beings both in heaven and on earth that had freewill. When their freewill would lead them against his will, then he would need to use this court to judge them. Either angels or people, all would have to face the judgement of God. No creature has power to escape God's judgement in heaven. In some cases compiled in this book of revelations, God appears in the court as the Defendant, because even his creation is allowed to file cases against him. So if God is the Defendant in some cases, then who is the Judge? God himself is the Judge. He is a perfect God such that he is able to preside as the Judge and the Defendant of the same case. He can pass a judgment against himself and also sentence himself! The Cross is a proof of that. Case 1: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witnesses: Adam, Eve Case 2: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Noah Case 3: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Abraham Case 4: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Ruth Case 5: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Elijah Case 6: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Job Case 7: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Peter Case 8: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witnesses: Abel Case 9: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Lot Case 10: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Gideon Case 11: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: John the Baptist Case 12: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Stephen Case 13: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witnesses: Isaac Case 14: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Joseph Case 15: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Samson Case 16: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Mary Case 17: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Lazarus ...
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781977712929
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
There is a court in heaven. It is in session NOW. The Judge is God. The Defendant is God (Christ Jesus). The Plaintiff is Satan. The Witnesses are the people (on earth). God established the Supreme Court of Heaven after the creation of the heavens and the earth. He established it because he had created beings both in heaven and on earth that had freewill. When their freewill would lead them against his will, then he would need to use this court to judge them. Either angels or people, all would have to face the judgement of God. No creature has power to escape God's judgement in heaven. In some cases compiled in this book of revelations, God appears in the court as the Defendant, because even his creation is allowed to file cases against him. So if God is the Defendant in some cases, then who is the Judge? God himself is the Judge. He is a perfect God such that he is able to preside as the Judge and the Defendant of the same case. He can pass a judgment against himself and also sentence himself! The Cross is a proof of that. Case 1: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witnesses: Adam, Eve Case 2: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Noah Case 3: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Abraham Case 4: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Ruth Case 5: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Elijah Case 6: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Job Case 7: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Peter Case 8: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witnesses: Abel Case 9: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Lot Case 10: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Gideon Case 11: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: John the Baptist Case 12: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Stephen Case 13: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witnesses: Isaac Case 14: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Joseph Case 15: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Samson Case 16: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Mary Case 17: Judge: God Plaintiff: Satan Defendant: God (Jesus) Witness: Lazarus ...
To An Unknown God
Author: Garrett Epps
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312262396
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Describes the "peyote case," in which Klamath Indian Al Smith, an alcohol and drug abuse counselor, was fired for distributing peyote as part of a Native American religious ritual, and examines the constitutional issues the case raised.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312262396
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Describes the "peyote case," in which Klamath Indian Al Smith, an alcohol and drug abuse counselor, was fired for distributing peyote as part of a Native American religious ritual, and examines the constitutional issues the case raised.