Sentences with phrase «by ancient law»

And Americans trying to live by ancient law sometimes reject all raw foods, because they feel that the «dosha» is a diagnosis, and the suggestions from thousands of years ago are a prescription or a «diet» (which is a modern construction).

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YOU may be a jewish priest, but I am not, and the laws for such ancient priests do not apply to, not are they adhered to by, ANY Christians today.

The legislation is pretty well represented by the Book of Deuteronomy, or by the central portion of that book, which we may fairly describe as a prophetic revision of the ancient laws of Israel.

God was represented by one of the ancient rabbis as saying, «When they read before me the laws about sacrifices, I will impute it to them as if they offered the sacrifices before me, and will have mercy upon them for all their misdeeds.»

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.

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make yourself look stupid by trying to refute scientific fact based on what someone told you or what you've read in an outdated book written to scare and control mankind though fantastical and highly embellished stories meant to inspire fear and obedience to ancient laws and beliefs.

Nevertheless, it's not clear how belief in a personal God — a God who creates and who answers prayers — is to he aligned with the scientific view of the cosmos as an ancient universe governed by impersonal and tightly knit laws.

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.

To be sure, the ancient world was not inclined to think of the universe as bound by what we call «natural law,» and so it did not have the problem with miracles that a scientific age has.

By this time there were tons of sects in Judaism because nobody understood the Law and the prophets properly because it was so confusing and written in ancient Hebrew that had probably been modified so many times that nobody knew what it said in the original anyway.

If the Bible needs to be interpreted for modern times that just proves it's nothing more than an ordinary book written by ordinary ancient people, and there's no more reason to base our laws or our lives off it than the Iliad or Beowulf.

It is increasingly clear that Deuteronomy and the Priestly writings contain at least some material much older than is indicated by the usual dating of the documents.9 Increasingly, too, it would appear that scholars are disposed to accept the substantial reliability of the persistent tradition which sees Moses as a lawgiver.10 That law was an early and significant aspect of Israelite culture is further attested not only by ancient Near Eastern parallels but even more strikingly in the life, the work and the character of the first three great names in Israel's national history: Moses, Samuel and Elijah.

A third characteristic — not unique since it is shared at least superficially by other ancient law codes — is, of course, that all the law is seen as, in very fact, the law of God.

and even in Jeremiah's time, the Rechabites, driven from their ancient nomadic ways by guerilla warfare, could in Jerusalem be used to shame the Hebrews by their uncompromising devotion to the laws of their fathers.

Jesus said those who worship the law will die by the law (the law meaning those ancient religion junk).

This view is complemented by an understanding of the eternal laws of power, as borrowed from Ancient Greece, dictating that the strong do as they like and the weak must endure.

In January of 2012 the Costa Concordia, the largest luxury liner built in Italy, manufactured at the Fincantieri shipyards in the ancient seafaring city of Genoa to the highest standards of safety specified by law, struck a reef in the Mediterranean, and partially capsized, killing dozens of people.

This is a foundational principle of the Law of Attraction and Manifestation techniques, elegantly stated by this famous ancient Chinese philosopher.

Still bound by an ancient Roman law, the group is pressed into sober and gruesome battles, all in the name of a far - flung leader many of them neither know nor believe in.

This proverb is Dutch in origin and is first recorded in Ancient Law Merchant by G. De Malynes, published in 1622.

The first five ingredients (which are required by law to be sorted by how the amounts of each contained in the food) of their Classic Real Lamb and Green Peas with Ancient Grains variety of dog food are deboned lamb, lamb meal (which are the bones of the animal crushed into a fine powder — a vital ingredient in dog food), peas, brown rice, and barley.

The Spaniel was known in pre-Christian Britain, and is mentioned by name in an ancient law of Wales as early as 300 AD.

NAIA cherishes the human - animal bond, believing that people and animals are bound together by natural law in an ancient relationship that benefits both.

Luckily, the ancient breed was dramatically rescued by a Hong Kong business man named Matgo Law, who appealed to Americans in 1973 through a dog magazine to save the Shar - Pei.

Also, dealing with Graziella Boucher, a tiny ancient tyrant» who headed the local Animal Defenders League and from 1964 to 1979 frequently clashed with Multnomah County law enforcement agencies, first over the use of pepper spray by mail carriers to deter aggressive dogs, later flamboyantly accusing a police officer of abusing his dog.

In the early 10th century, Helgi inherited the ancient Russian empire Rus founded by Rurik, believed to be his brother - in - law.

Talion has denied any allegations of wrongdoing, suggesting that his workplace negotiation practices are «strictly in line with Mordor industrial relations law», and that any orcs claiming to have been «dominated by the ghost of an ancient elf» are simply «enthusiastic».

He cites examples of ancient bodies of secular law that were picked up by the religious lawmakers and progressively passed backwards and forwards.

Law reviews, by contrast, feel as ancient as telegrams, but slower.

Ancient law: its connection with the early history of society, and its relation to modern ideas: with an introduction by Theodore W. Dwight.

• 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».

The basis of this common law is derived from the ancient laws of England that developed over time to protect the injured by awarding funds for damages.

Champerty and maintenance They are ancient doctrines in common law jurisdictions forbidding an agreement in which a person with no previous interest in a lawsuit helps maintain it, mostly by providing financing, (maintenance) with a view to sharing the damages if the suit succeeds (champerty).

Not simply for the practitioners, but for all those who have been injured or traumatized by the ancient system that was created when English common law insinuated itself into the family.

Typically, it is the sacred account of the creation of the physical and social world by dreaming ancestors in their heroic and ancient travels that are recounted in song cycles, ceremonies, designs and ultimately the basis for claims to country according to traditional laws and customs.

As to be expected, after such a long period of intense colonisation, ancient laws and customs were represented by what Cane calls «an attenuated core of language and mythology».