Word: god-given
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...second element, faith, includes the belief that "Christ was who He said He was," namely God's own son, and that "He can do what He claimed He could do," forgive sins and fill a person's life. "Only by believing in Jesus-committing yourself to Him, surrendering to Him-are you saved." Graham insists that this God-given "complete change" in individuals is the only basis for social improvement, because people's efforts to better things on their own are doomed...
...true Christian could disagree that today's homosexuals must be granted the same God-given "rights" that their forefathers in Sodom and Gomorrah enjoyed: principally, the right to a speedy death by fire. The argument that it is a Christian virtue to accept homosexuals as "brothers in Christ" is a liberal theological crock...
...Schickel can complain about the dialogue. The most monstrous dialogue is the American vernacular of Washington, Jefferson, and those we call the founding fathers, living off the labor of slaves while debating the God-given liberty of mankind...
...matters little how much it will cost. For it is autumn, and, however beautiful, man knows that he does not live by foliage alone. To be renewed, to be properly inscribed in the Book of Life for the coming year, he must drink from the God-given elixir that is Rock...
...Reed, Arlo Guthrie, they are truly the harbingers of autumn. It matters little whom you choose; the Pilgrims at Plymouth partook indiscriminately of foods both familiar and exotic--maize and corn, turkey and chicken-dogs; it mattered little. Having partaken of the fruits of the earth, having experienced the God-given bounties of the soil, they were renewed. And surely they fancied themselves well-girt against the cruel winter that followed. And they blessed Plymouth, and not surprisingly, they called it Plymouth Rock. Later...