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What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

I heard of E. C. Wines's Commentaries on the Laws of the Ancient Hebrews (1855) long ago from R. J. Rushdoony, a great connoisseur of forgotten books.

and fyi, i have read the koran, various ancient commentaries on islamic law and many of the Hadith.

In general, I don't care what a candidates cult affiliation is unless he seems to be the type of cult member that will want to press his cults ancient (or not so ancient) beliefs on others through the force of law.

If you want to believe in your god, then more power to you, but don't make yourself look stupid by trying to refute scientific fact based on what someone told you or what you've read in an outdated book written to scare and control mankind though fantastical and highly embellished stories meant to inspire fear and obedience to ancient laws and beliefs.

This oral tradition was supposed to have been inspired on Mt. Sinai together with the written law, though it often actually adjusted the requirements of the ancient laws to new circumstances and customs by rather free interpretations.

a place where people write laws based on ancient books from the Bronze Age backed up by zero evidence.

America was founded on Christian beliefs, and even atheists should honor and respect these beliefs (RE: Ancient Laws (Jefferson)-RRB- even though they do not believe in God... and just as we are told to respect them they should also respect us; sounds like they like being bullies; it should be understood that all can have their own opinion, but we should not condemn each other for different opinions.

Arguments for marriage based on tradition or natural law started to sound ancient and unintelligible.

In this sense, the Sermon on the Mount proclaims the same intention of perfection and holiness that runs through the ancient Law.

For example, the book of Leviticus contained laws for ancient Israel on quarantine and hygiene when surrounding nations knew nothing about such matters.

Then through all of the vicissitudes of actual life in the ancient Near East, God made himself a people from those forebears — delivering them from slavery in Egypt, protecting them against their enemies, leading them through the terrors of the wilderness, entering into covenant with them, giving them his guiding presence in the covenant law, bringing them into a land flowing with milk and honey, giving them a Davidic king to be their protector of justice in peace and in war, and finally taking up his own dwelling in their temple on the Mount of Zion.

If Jesus allowed for breaking the honored Sabbath laws so as to provide for healing or gleaning, though the ancient laws forbade these on the sacred day, would he not also allow for a suspension of the proscription against divorce if such were to liberate a person from the bondage of an intolerable marriage?

Added Mitchell: «This latest research on the prevalence of ancient parasites suggests that Roman toilets, sewers and sanitation laws had no clear benefit to public health.

What Yorgos Lanthimos did which is really great is that he tells this story of a patriarchal system in this almost ancient Greek way which has been going on for thousands of years: this Roman law that the father can decide on the life of everybody else in the house.

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It can take place in your back yard, in the ancient past, on the moon, in another dimension - the nature and laws of which can be anything you imagine.

Puri Taman Sari is designed and built based on Balinese ancient architectural law which is known as Asta Kosala Kosali, to ensure the harmony between the occupant, the building and environment.

It appears to me the the number 40 had magical significence to the ancients of the near and middle east: the flood's 40 days and nights of rain; the Jews wandering in the wilderness for 40 years; Moses's 40 days and nights» sojourn on Mt. Sinai to receive the law; Jesus's 40 days and nights in the desert; Ali Baba and the forty thieves; and likely more references that I've missed (e.g. Muslim mythology?).

As Jonathan Turley notes on his blog, the word «Olympic» and the original ancient sporting event in Greece preceded both the United States and copyright / trademark laws.

Mindfulness is described as «an ancient method of deliberate, moment - to - moment attention» on the website of the Initiative on Mindfulness in Law & Dispute Resolution, which is at the Fredric G. Levin College of Law at the University of Florida.

Stay tuned for whether language, not to mention common sense and the lessons of history, has any real meaning in our age, and whether, to paraphrase the late Lillian Hellman (commenting on the tendency of some leftists during the McCarthy period to denounce friends and associates as Communists), the plain and tested meaning of ancient laws is to be tailored to meet the fashions of the day.

• An ancient code cited by the International Court of Justice in 1996 and in one of the major constitutional judgments of one jurisdiction where a judge thundered about the fundamental importance of law: «The preservation of the human race itself hinges on law».

Chancel Repair Liability («CRL»), has been variously described as an «arcane and unsatisfactory» area of property law, an «ancient liability» of an «anachronistic, even capricious, nature» and «one of the more unsightly blots on the history of English jurisprudence».

Although they were a bit off on that doomsday thing, I'm pretty sure the ancient Mayans saw this one coming: new Florida law finally revised the definition of «motor vehicle» to exclude swamp buggies.

Putting a price on harm from work - related injury is an ancient concept, with roots in Sumerian law (approx. 2050 BC).

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