act of god
上帝的行为,神的行为,上帝的旨意,天灾
Definitions
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Law.
- : a direct, sudden, and irresistible action of natural forces such as could not reasonably have been foreseen or prevented, as a flood, hurricane, earthquake, or other natural catastrophe.
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Examples
It is the summit of human happiness: the surrender of man to God, of woman to man, of several women to the same man.
“Personally, I deal with manners of righteousness and God,” he says.
A spokesman for Lewisham council said last year that it would be forced to act if the family returned to Britain.
My body used for his hard pleasure; a stone god gripping me in his hands.
Every once in a while, they act swiftly and acknowledge the problem.
The supernaturalist alleges that religion was revealed to man by God, and that the form of this revelation is a sacred book.
Each religion claims that its own Bible is the direct revelation of God, and is the only true Bible teaching the only true faith.
Elyon is the name of an ancient Phœnician god, slain by his son El, no doubt the “first-born of death” in Job xviii.
He caught himself in the act of listening to you too credulously—and that seemed to him unmanly and dishonorable.
But if God made man, then God is responsible for all man's acts and thoughts, and therefore man cannot sin against God.