Holiness cannot be attained, as the pantheist claims, by a merely natural growth or development, since man's natural tendencies are wholly in the direction of selfishness.
The book of Job shows how impossible it is for man to work out the problem of personal immortality from the point of view of merely natural religion.
Further, we do not merit by merely natural operations.
Intellectual love is contradistinguished from that natural love, which is merely natural, in so far as it belongs to a nature which has not likewise the perfection of either sense or intellect.
When I say that our sorrow should be supernatural, I mean that it should be prompted by the grace of God, and excited by motives which spring from faith, and not by merely natural motives.
What do we mean by "motives that spring from faith" and by "merely natural motives" with regard to sorrow for sin?
By "merely natural motives" we mean sorrow for reasons made known to us by our own experience or by the experience of others, such as loss of character, goods or health.
These beneficent fruits cannot have their source in merely natural causes, apart from the truth and divinity of the Scriptures; for in that case the contrary beliefs would be accompanied by the same blessings.
Nothing must exist to suggest the event to merely natural prescience.
The continued corruption of heathen lands shows that this change is not due to any laws of merely natural progress.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "merely natural" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
