Christ and his apostles must, therefore, have been what they claimed to be, teachers sent from God, and their doctrine must be what they claimed it to be, a revelation from God to men.
Reasons a priori for expecting a Revelation from God.
It is evident, then, that the dispensation given to the Apostle came to him by revelation from God.
We need not labor any disproof of the truth or authority of this doctrine as the Pharisees held it, because, admitting that they had the record of a revelation from God, this doctrine was not a part of it.
If, therefore, this doctrine be a revelation from God, it was revealed by him to the Persians in a dark and credulous antiquity.
The Redskin, to become a sorcerer or to secure a revelation from his totem, or the Eskimo, to become Angekok, will endure the most severe privations.
Even if the Prophet directed us, as a revelation from God, to abandon polygamy, still the nation would have further cause for quarrel because of the Church's temporal rule.
I have never disobeyed a revelation from God," he said.
But I knew that our people believed in it as a practice ordained, by a revelation from God, for the salvation of the world.
The affirmative side of the question belongs to us who hold out the Book of Mormon to the world as a revelation from God.
Thus only can we tell whether it be a revelation from God or from the Devil.
While Jesus taught in various ways that Leviticus contains a law given by revelation from God to Moses, these teach that it is a priestly forgery of the days after Ezra.
But decide them as one will, it will still remain true that the law is "the law of Moses," given by revelation from God.
This division, then, is because men are guided by opinion and preference and not by the spirit of revelation from God, which guides into all truth and brings those who possess it to a unity of faith.
No reason can be assigned for the ignorance of the masses and the enlightenment of the humble fishermen other than that the former depended upon the learning of men; the latter had received a revelation from God.
Again I ask, why were the Jewish people as wicked, cruel, and ignorant with a revelation from God, as other nations were without?
Here in our own country, only a few years ago, men claimed to have found golden plates upon which was written a revelation from God.
A man says that he has received a revelation from God, and he wishes to convince another man that he has received a revelation--how does he proceed?
Entering upon the study of the Scriptures as he had done, in order to prove that they were a revelation from God, Miller had not, at the outset, the slightest expectation of reaching the conclusion at which he had now arrived.
It not only lowers man’s conceptions of the work of redemption, but undermines faith in the Bible as a revelation from God.
He was not then prepared to answer them; but he reasoned that if the Bible is a revelation from God, it must be consistent with itself; and that as it was given for man’s instruction, it must be adapted to his understanding.
All that reason has a right to do is to judge as to the matter of fact whether the Bible and Christianity be really a revelation from God or not, and, if it be, what is its purport.
Even the Old Testament itself, though a revelation from Heaven, shines but with feeble and scanty rays.
Every such instance, it should always be remembered, is a fresh proof of Christianity being a revelation from God.
Their divine origin, and, consequently, the deference with which they are to be received as a revelation from God, are demonstrated by this symbolization of the presence chamber of the Almighty.
A sacred regard was shown not only for the book, but often for every manuscript, scrap of paper, or text which it contained, or which was supposed to contain a message or revelation from God.
As much as Christians ridicule the idea of Joseph Smith receiving a revelation from God, it comes to us with exactly the same authority as the claimed-to-be revelation of Moses.
A revelation from a pure, perfect, and holy God must (if we assume a revelation necessary) come through a pure and holy channel: otherwise it would be contaminated and corrupted before it reached us.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "revelation from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
