Sentences with phrase «by biblical law»

MARK 12:18 - 27 If a man dies childless, his widow is ordered by biblical law to have intercourse with each of his brothers in turn until she bears her deceased husband a male heir.

IIf a man dies childless, his widow is ordered by biblical law to have intercourse with each of his brothers in turn until she bears her deceased husband a male heir.

The rich were REQUIRED BY BIBLICAL LAW to not fully harvest the fields, but allow enough to remain so that the poor could glean the fields for food.

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That biblical vision helped form the bedrock convictions of the American idea: that government stood under the judgment of divine and natural law; that government was limited in its reach into human affairs, especially the realm of conscience; that national greatness was measured by fidelity to the moral truths taught by revelation and inscribed in the world by a demanding yet merciful God; that only a virtuous people could be truly free.

The same thing followed throughout Biblical times, man tried earning redemption by own merits and efforts / works but could not keep God's Covenants & Law, man's efforts were not sufficient.

Obviously, that biblical law was written by ignorant men, and because humans are changeable, we have «evolved» our beliefs on such things and do not recognize what the biblical laws require — because they are immoral.

The biblical interpretation stands, above all, under the archetype of the covenant, but it is also consonant with the classical theory of natural law as derived from ancient philosophy and handed down by the church fathers.

What would a day be in the Divine circadian cycle of an omnimodal, omnipotent being, 24 hours, 24 billion years, 24 milliseconds??? Nowhere in the Bible coes it say that evolution does not exist within the living realm, but Simon Peter does say that to the I Am»... one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one day...» (the Bible DOES recognize the effects of animal husbandry, which is a form of artificially - induced evolution on livestock species, and narrates accounts of Divine intervention to influence it, so you can not factually say that it is outside the realm of Divine probability by biblical accounts, as Divine probability contains, by textbook definition, the sum of the laws of nature.

He does so by abstracting principles out of the specific laws of Leviticus and then associating those abstractions with other biblical passages.

Can we moderate Christians tell the world that most Americans don't believe that you should devote your energy to judging others, that you should try to focus to improving yourself; that most Americans want religion protected by keeping it separated from «State» rather than the extremist push to make biblical law the law of the land; that each individual's morality is between him / her and God, not a morality imposed by Christian extremists?

But that basis is very narrow, and even it is strongly influenced by biblical traditions in ways seldom recognized by many natural - law theorists.

Although that might appear to be a conclusion of mere practical reason, first reached by the so - called Enlightenment, there is also a case to be made for it in terms of biblical Christianity as well as «natural law» or secular utilitarianism.

The law your enforcers abide and practice their profession by is based in Christian text and drawn from biblical sources.

He worked out a view of history in biblical terms in which the first period is that of the Father, characterized by the rigour of the law, and man's response of servile obedience and fear.

Finally, though they are not as numerous, but still quite important in their influence, there are Reconstructionists, who aspire to replace civil codes with biblical laws, even to the point, among hard - liners, of making homosexuality, adultery, blasphemy, propagation of false doctrine, and incorrigible behavior by children punishable by death.

Finally, the writer [apparently] operates on the mistaken view that if we can only get at least 51 percent of the voting populace to be swayed sufficiently by our coalesced, power structure, emotional appeals, and biblical truth (used only where it will work), then we can pass laws outlawing abortion.

There would be questions of biblical theology about the nature of Christian freedom, the relation between law and Gospel, the meaning of the law for those justified by faith.

Thus in biblical thought, there are two divine covenants with humanity operating in the face of evil created by human self - alienation from God — one, the covenant of redemptive grace with Abraham which ends in the Messianic Kingdom of Love and the other, the covenant with Noah of protective law of reverence for life and later with Moses of the Ten Commandments for the preservation of rough justice in society.

Onan's refusal to impregnate his widowed sister - in - law, a refusal expressed in his deliberate withdrawal before ejaculation, was interpreted by the biblical writer as so serious a violation of divine decree that Onan was killed by Yahweh.

Dubbed the «Guru of Fundamentalists» by Newsweek in 1982, Schaeffer believed that Christians are called to rule the U.S. — and the world — using biblical law.

2014 started off with a bang in the legal marketing world when Georgia lawyer Jamie Casino ran a two - minute local television ad during this year's Superbowl that includes (and I'm hardly scratching the surface here) biblical references, allegations of a cover - up by the area's chief of police in the death of Casino's brother, and a sunglass - clad Casino wielding a flaming sledgehammer to smash his brother's tombstone while a pounding heavy metal soundtrack plays in the background, all of which apparently provides the backstory for Casino's decision to move from criminal defense to personal injury law as his preferred area of practice.

What is the law but a necessarily finite effort on our part to find some earthly vision which at least partakes in a small way of that larger Biblical vision offered us by the Hebrew prophets Jeremiah, Isaiah, Amos, and by the one who followed them, Jesus Christ?

during this year's Superbowl that includes (and I'm hardly scratching the surface here) biblical references, allegations of a cover - up by the area's chief of police in the death of Casino's brother, and a sunglass - clad Casino wielding a flaming sledgehammer to smash his brother's tombstone while a pounding heavy metal soundtrack plays in the background, all of which apparently provides the backstory for Casino's decision to move from criminal defense to personal injury law as his preferred area of

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