Human law need not, and according to St. Thomas should not, enforce every obligation of the natural or moral law.
Not exact matches
I do not know of a single adult
human being that has given their life to the Tooth Fairy, seen the Tooth Fairy, thinks there is a Tooth Fairy, prays to the Tooth Fairy, given new life by the Tooth Fairy, given hope by the Tooth Fairy, lived by the
law of the Tooth Fairy, fought wars with a Fairy banner held high and last but not least Stalin, Mao and Poll Pot felt no
need to eliminate and persecute those who held tight to the Tooth Fairy.
Did Yahweh learn that
humans were worse than he thought so he
needed to change his
law?
† God brought the
Law before to show
human how sinful and short of Glory he / she is and that he / she
needs God for redemption, hence, it was the shadow of Christ to come.
We must believe in the contents of all the messages concerning the code of
laws which aims at the organization of
human life in a way which meets the
needs of mankind and promotes
human welfare in accordance with His justice and mercy.
If a corrupt magistrate, indifferent alike to
human need and divine
law, would grant an importunate widow her rights merely to get rid of her, surely God, the altogether righteous judge, will speedily vindicate his elect when they cry to him.
But humanity is spiritual as well as physical, and so
human society is founded on the absolute value of the individual and the
need for a direct relationship with God as the Environment in which men find their Life -
Law and their fulfilment:
«authority would
need to be regulated by
law, to observe consistently the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity, to seek to establish the common good, and to make a commitment to securing authentic integral
human development inspired by the values of charity in truth» (n. 34).
All western nations
need laws that protect vulnerable depressed and mentally incompetent people from falling victim to the euthanasia lobby who are promoting suicide (right to die) as a
human right.
While the former aims at the restoration of «true man,» «original man,» the goal of the latter was the transcendence of the
human condition, the acquisition of some degree of freedom from the
needs or
laws that determine ordinary
human life by assimilation to a radically different state of being [The Heating Journey (Pantheon, 1973) p. 17].
its like when my city made a
law saying all animals
need to be on a leash, and i called the cops on every
human, squirrel, and bird i seen.
Any universe created by the multiverse generator would
need to include both (a) the positive conditions necessary for life (i.e., the fine - tuned
laws of nature) and (b) the negative conditions necessary for
human existence (i.e., the absence of V - class objects).
The issue in all these Sabbath controversies is that of the relation of
human need to the
law.
Human need takes precedence over the
law.
Moses and angels are responsible for the
Law and its sacrificial system — which is a reflection of
human thinking, not God's
need or want for blood sacrifice.
Not much experience is
needed to be fully aware of
human weakness and to understand that
human beings and especially the young, who are so exposed to temptation
need incentives to keep the moral
law, and it is an evil thing to make it easy for them to break that
law.
To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in
need of any partners but we the creation is in
need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we
human fear the fed
laws more than we fear the
laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing,
human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the
law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed
laws but when it comes to the
laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the
law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....
In short, the Nature we know from modern science embodies and reflects immaterial properties and a depth of intelligibility... To view all these extremely complex, elegant and intelligible
laws, entities, properties and relations in the evolution of the universe as «brute facts» in
need of no further explanation is, in the words of the great John Paul II, an «abdication of
human intelligence».»
Nicholas Berdyaev the Russian philosopher was most critical of the traditional Christian ethics which confined itself to the ethics of
law and ethics of grace and ignored the ethics of creativity, while secular modernity to which Christian modernism succumbed, elevated the
human vocation of creativity as supreme and as capable by itself of solving the problem of destructivity within it without the
need of grace and even of
law in the long run Anthropology got perverted on all sides by converting Creation into an order of static
laws which are only to be obeyed and perfected by grace in Catholic thought and by getting validated for collective existence without criticism but to be rejected as totally irrelevant in the realm of existence in grace in Protestant thought.
Secular
human societies
need laws because, apart from cooperation with Grace, our survivalist instincts predispose us to choose immediate selfish interests and desires over our greater common good.
Human shriti sakti is good but it tends to turn almost inevitably into samhara sakti which in history
needs to be constantly checked by
law and redeemed by Grace.
The ceremonial
law, as a good Jew, he apparently retained except where it conflicted with service to
human need, and this was often.
Because this authority is predicated on the
need to achieve certain specifiable ends that some people may not wish to promote, and because often reasonable people can disagree about how
human activities should be coordinated to attain those ends, we get queasy about enforcing this kind of authority by
law.
It
needs to declare what are the external and overriding criteria, based on shared
human experience, that its qualified defense of communities requires; it
needs something like natural
law.
To become Incarnate, God
needs only, but must have, the vessel and seed of
human life, but without that total personal operation which is the
law of the being of «another».
We do not deny or circumscribe the Creator, because we hold he has created the self - acting originating
human mind, which has almost a creative gift; much less then do we deny or circumscribe His power, if we hold that He gave matter such
laws as by their blind instrumentality moulded and constructed through innumerable ages the world as we see it... Mr Darwin's theory
need not then be atheistical, be it true or not; it may simply be suggesting a larger idea of Divine Prescience and Skill... At first sight I do not see that «the accidental evolution or organic beings» is inconsistent with divine design - It is accidental to us, not to God.»
In the light of the vast economic and technological changes that the UN has already contributed to the global system of what Vasak calls «solidarity,» it is now possible to classify the basic
human standards into three broad categories: rights (individual)
needs (collective) and uses (world
law).
Not all
Humans carry a soul, in fact the vast majority do not, hence the
need for organized govt to make harsh
laws and churches to scare them with fire and brimestone.
What is the
law in the perspective of ethics supposed to mean when it comes to the
needed growth of genuine social morality and the injection of hope itself into
human lives?
Because the
law needs people as
human reminders of what the
law ought to be, and is capable of becoming, so that it will not arrogantly and comfortably settle for what it is.
There would still be
need for work to meet
human needs, but God has provided forms of
law and government that man's life may be ordered, sin restrained, and the necessities of communal existence met.
Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter»
needing only the brute
laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the
laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second
law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and
human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.
Thus, where the
law served both to honor God and to serve
human need, he could rejoice in it; where it was at variance, he could boldly set it aside.
First among them is the
need for a vital ecclesial intellectual life and culture of grace as the context for knowledge of basic metaphysical truths about God, the
human person, and the natural
law.
For us, it must start with the vision of a peaceful world, where gradually the production and distribution of armaments gives way to the production and distribution of goods and services that benefit the
human race instead of threatening to destroy it, a vision of the rule of
law rather than of economic domination, a vision of democracy where people are able to have a real say in what their own future will be, a vision of smallness and community involvement, a vision of cultural pluralism and a diversity of ideas, a vision of leisure spent meeting
human needs.
This practically amounts to saying that much that it is legitimate to admire in this field
need nevertheless not be imitated, and that religious phenomena, like all other
human phenomena, are subject to the
law of the golden mean.
site the washing of the feet and the drying with the hair... that my friends is a marriage ceremony in Judaic
law and custom of that period and yes they did have a daughter named Sarah) but... not it seems to be a shock to many who really did not dig into their own religious dogma... blind faith is great if you can achieve it... normally people today
need to inspect... inspect and you find the truths... then you will have faith based on the truth, not twists and turns and the
human politics of history that changed historical truth.
It really shouldn't be necessary to even have
laws regarding such matters, but then again, it shouldn't be necessary to have
laws that say you can't up and kill somebody you are angry with, but it is necessary and
human behaviour does
need to be regulated if we are to be able to live together in any sense of civility.
Among them were pantheism and the positions that
human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil
law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral
laws do not
need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»
because the OT teaches us that EVERONE
needs a saviour, NO ONE can follow the
law and that even though we, as
humans are major screw uops, God can still use us.
Paul teaches us much about what moral reflection and teaching is, and about what a
human moral agent is, avoiding a narrow legalism or a concentration on natural
law that each ignore the
need for grace and so run the risk of being closer to Pelagian ethics than to Catholic moral theology.
And if you want to take
human nature out of the game, then you
need to take every bit of contact out of the game and play it to the letter of the
law.
I am like: this is a basic
human need and we
need a
law that says we can do this when we
need to do this.
Cutting nearly $ 1 trillion from Medicaid will give states the freedom to tailor the program to suit their
needs, Health and
Human Services Secretary Tom Price said, as he defended a narrowly passed House bill that aims to undo parts of the health care
law enacted by the previous administration.
CUNY's motto «
Law in the Service of
Human Need» aligned well with Alicka's world views.
Meier authored a
law requiring the United States Department of Health and
Human Services to apply for a Federal Medicaid waiver to create a pilot program to offer less costly, more appropriate care to Medicaid patients in
need of long - term care.
That the Labour party should so loudly trumpet its contempt for personal privacy and the presumption of innocence, parading its violation of the European Court on
Human Rights ruling on DNA retention as one of the top six reasons to vote for it, tells you everything you
need to know about its attitude to civil liberties and the rule of
law.
This administration has proposed cuts to funding for
human services, starved our infrastructure of the resources it
needs and paid millions of dollars in fines for being unable to provide clean drinking water but can spend several million dollars taking care of the
law firms that employ his campaign donors,» said Brian Hegt, spokesman for the BoL Democratic Caucus.
In December, both the home affairs select committee and the joint commitee on
human rights report that there is no evidence to suggest the
law needs to be changed.
Citing six catalysts - the confusion over
human rights and the rule of
law, the unprecedented growth of the «database state», devolution and the pressure for greater decentralisation in England, the European Union and globalisation and questions about the eventual succession of Queen Elizabeth II, I predicted that the
need for fundamental constitutional change would become unarguable within the next twenty years.