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Admin	How Do You Define? Posted : 2 Sep, 2013 05:55 PM The word Sovereign or Sovereignty. Post Reply
View Profile History	How Do You Define? Posted : 2 Sep, 2013 06:14 PM What is your definition? Post Reply
View Profile History	How Do You Define? Posted : 2 Sep, 2013 06:17 PM The question is how do you define it? Post Reply
View Profile History	How Do You Define? Posted : 2 Sep, 2013 06:24 PM WekiPedia ~ Sovereignty is the quality of having independent authority over a geographic area, such as a territory.[1] It can be found in a power to rule and make laws that rests on a political fact for which no pure legal definition can be provided. In theoretical terms, the idea of "sovereignty", historically, from Socrates to Thomas Hobbes, has always necessitated a moral imperative on the entity exercising it. For centuries past, the idea that a state could be sovereign was always connected to its ability to guarantee the best interests of its own citizens. Thus, if a state could not act in the best interests of its own citizens, it could not be thought of as a �sovereign� state.[2] *******************and further down you'll find.... Reformation ~ Sovereignty reemerged as a concept in the late 16th century, a time when civil wars had created a craving for stronger central authority, when monarchs had begun to gather power into their own hands at the expense of the nobility, and the modern nation state was emerging. Jean Bodin, partly in reaction to the chaos of the French wars of religion presented theories of sovereignty calling for strong central authority in the form of absolute monarchy. In his 1576 treatise Les Six Livres de la R�publique ("Six Books of the Republic") Bodin argued that it is inherent in the nature of the state that sovereignty must be:[1] Absolute: On this point he said that the sovereign must be hedged in with obligations and conditions, must be able to legislate without his (or its) subjects' consent, must not be bound by the laws of his predecessors, and could not, because it is illogical, be bound by his own laws. Perpetual: Not temporarily delegated as to a strong leader in an emergency or to a state employee such as a magistrate. He held that sovereignty must be perpetual because anyone with the power to enforce a time limit on the governing power must be above the governing power, which would be impossible if the governing power is absolute. XO Post Reply
teach_ib View Profile History	How Do You Define? Posted : 2 Sep, 2013 07:03 PM King of kings... Post Reply
View Profile History	How Do You Define? Posted : 2 Sep, 2013 07:53 PM How Do You Define? The word Sovereign or Sovereignty. *** I could define it as in a Dictionary...however...what I posted on the Thread below this one...sums it up...and I will not Deny HIM nor HIS Word...He is the Most HIGH GOD...The KING of Kings...the LORD of Lords...XO Post Reply
View Profile History	How Do You Define? Posted : 2 Sep, 2013 08:32 PM Ephesians 1:19-23: That power is like the working of His mighty strength, which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given...And God placed all things under His feet and appointed Him to be HEAD over everything for the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills everything in every way! I Corinthians 15:22-25: For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when He comes, those who belong to Him. Then the End will come , when He hands over the Kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority and power!! :angel::angel::angel::angel::angel::angel::angel: Post Reply
mcubed View Profile History	How Do You Define? Posted : 6 Sep, 2013 06:07 PM The sovereignty of G-d is absolute authority, rule, and government of G-d in the whole of that reality that exists distinct from Himself in the realms of nature and of grace. It is a concept that respects His relation to other beings and to all other being and existence. G-d possesses and exercises this absolute authority, rule, and government, the necessary presupposition of it is the oneness, or unity, of G-d. It is a fact to which Scripture bears constant witness in a great variety of contexts because it is a truth that underlies and determines the whole superstructure of divine revelation. It is not as if there were a host of lesser deities over whom G-d is supreme and therefore demands from us supreme worship and devotion. It is rather that he alone is G-d. "The Lord he is G-d; there is none else besides him." "He is G-d in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else" (Deut. 4:35, 39). "Hear, O Israel: the Lord our G-d is one Lord" (Deut. 6:4). "See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no G-d with me" (Deut. 32:39). "Thou art the G-d, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth" (2 Kings 19:15). Post Reply