Sentences with phrase «law than its spirit»

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Thus, language, law, science, art, manners, customs, history, and tradition are elaborations of the human spirit no less than is religion.

But this time, rather than Moses coming down from the Mountain with the law, this time, it was the Holy Spirit coming down with grace and power.

The fundamental (excuse the pun) problems with far - right Christianity are exactly the same issues our Savior spoke about to the Pharisees: judgmentalism, hypocrisy, intolerance, and the hyper - extremity of observing the letter of the law rather than its spirit (as evidenced by statements from various preachers that people such gays and disobedient children should be killed).

So the poor in spirit must be more righteous than the Pharisees, the guys who were experts on the Law?

Yet as prophecy had declined, the law had tended to become externalized; its letter rather than its spirit was accented.

Its peculiarity consists in the fact that as a law it commands the spirit of love which must be something more than obedience to law.

The Prophet knew better than any other possible legislator the essence and spirit of the Law.

I have had a change of heart on this and i believe that jesus means what he says for us to go and sin no more.Why because the women caught in adultery is us it is a universal message for us sinners judged and condemned by the law if we do nt want to be under the law then the only way is to follow jesus but not according to the flesh but according to the spirit.Because if we walk in the spirit we will not gratify the desires of the flesh.Which means we will not sin that sums up the message once having been saved by jesus we follow him and walk by the spirit the message is clear and he provides the means for us to do it through his holy spirit.For sin shall not have dominion over us we are more than conquerers overcomers through Jesus Christ.

Is it possible that things haven't changed much since Jesus» day: we are more concerned with the letter of the law rather than the spirit of it?

Through experience, I had reached the conviction that the council was on the way to becoming a bureaucratic system, an enormous machine that, the larger it grew, the more it conformed to sociological laws of organization, rather than obeying the promptings of the Holy Spirit.

In the letter where, above all others, Paul emphasized faith rather than works and the Spirit rather than the Law, he wrote that the «fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self - control.»

J. M. Sterrett defines Antinomianism as follows: «In its widest sense the term is used to designate the doctrines of extreme fanatics who deny subjection to any law other than the subjective caprices of the empirical individual, though this individual is generally credited as the witness and interpreter of the Holy Spirit.»

That would not be literally obeying Jesus, but it would still be loving, and would therefore be keeping the spirit of the text rather than the letter of the law.

There isn't roomhere to do more than illustrate the case with a few examples, but an attempt will be made to show how rich Paul's view of ethics is, how his teaching on law is original and relevant, how his emphasis on love is important, and how he forces us to consider not only the human act that, as St Thomas says, is what moral theology is all about, but also the adjectival human agent transformed by the grace of the Holy Spirit into a friend, indeed a child of God.

Do we not say the police need to follow the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law.

It's Google and Starbucks who really benefit from a rule - based system of public contributions whose institutional resources are focussed on reinforcing the letter, rather than the spirit, of the law.

«We've abided by the spirit rather than the letter of the law,» says the HSC spokesman.

Again in the spirit of comity, I would humbly submit that there's no reason at all to cite law journals any differently than we cite the journals of any other discipline.

While the spirit of the law is supposed to be to protect, it more often than not is about control.

Equity enforces the spirit rather than the letter of the law alone.