Sentences with phrase «biblical prohibition»

Mormon polygamy was outlawed in this country, despite the constitutional protection of freedom of religion, because it violated the sensibilities of the dominant Christian culture, even though no explicit biblical prohibition against polygamy exists.

The effort to rid the world of Jews, he concludes, was also an effort to free man from oppressive biblical prohibitions, so as «to have men's secret lusts dance unrestrainedly under the open sky.»

- an arbitrary pick - and - choose approach to Scripture, complete with an implicit canon - within - the - canon, which, for example, is tough on sexual offenses but says nothing about the regular biblical prohibitions against usury

On the one hand, lying under oath has always been seen as a particularly noxious crime, from the biblical prohibition against bearing false witness to the 16th - century common law in England, where perjurers had their tongues cut out.

The essence of the biblical prohibition of idolatry is «You shall have no other gods in My presence» (Exodus 20:3).

They still believe that the biblical prohibition for fornication (sex outside of marriage) is valid on some level.

Yet later you lump Id theft in with stealing and even internet pornography in with a Biblical prohibition.

(Goux, in Les Iconoclastes, needs of course to find a psychoanalytical basis for the biblical prohibition against representing God and adoring images.

This seems to violate the biblical prohibition of «recognition of persons in judgment» (Lev.

I posted this a week ago to my personal blog and intended to cross-post it here without too much delay, but I've just realized that I never got around to it.There's a particularly bad argument against those who accept the biblical prohibitions against same - sex sexual acts, and I think I've....

He also encouraged him to use representational imagery (something Motherwell rarely did in his painting), despite the biblical prohibition of «graven» images.