If one generation of children were to be educated with
this natural law of love and unity as the basis for all decisions, approaches, and mentalities, just imagine the impact.
Not exact matches
It's not about a
law or legalism... If you are truly Born
of God obedience is just the
natural outcome
of love, not trying... If you find yourself trying to not cuss, well, that's works and legalism... but if you walk by the Spirit where the topic just never really comes up because it's not in God's, Jesus» or the Holy Spirit's vocabulary.
Even though Jesus affirmed the
law and the commandments, he called on men to abandon ties
of family and clan (Matthew 19:29), even to abandon their
natural inclinations: «For if ye
love them which
love you, what reward have ye?»
Reflect on this a little: Many
of the inspirations
of the threefold system
of political economy derive from evangelical inspirations such as personal creativity, personal responsibility, freedom, the
love for community through association and mutual cooperation, the aim
of bettering the condition
of every person on earth, the cultivation
of the rule
of law, respect for the
natural rights
of others, the preference for persuasion by reason rather than by coercion, and a powerful sense
of sin.
After all, the only way to live out the truth
of the
natural law is to know and
love the
natural law giver.
Nature as with all views
of the known
natural laws is very different from
Love.
If marriage is detached from that «
natural teleology
of the body,» on what ground
of principle could the
law rule out the people who profess that their own
love is not confined to a coupling
of two, but woven together in a larger ensemble
of three or four?
«The pattern
of ecstasis, made manifest in the
natural law and elevated by grace into a personal communion with the Trinity, unifies
law and
love.»
It can not be too strongly stressed, in contrast to a secular moralism which finds its base in social adjustment, or a balancing
of human values, or a
natural law of morality, that the center
of New Testament ethics lies in the
love requirement which in turn stems from the free gift
of God's
love to the undeserving.
Because God is
loving, God always wants the best for us, so God's suggestions are always the ones that, within the givenness
of the past and the
natural laws, are the actions we can take that will lead to the best future possible.
However, he didn't tell them that they should keep the
law by their
natural power, but he told them that they would need a deliverer or redeemer, who would come and dwell in them (the Holy Spirit), in oder to be their spiritual power, which would help them to overcome sin and live a life
of Christian
love.
So in this attempt to explicate Christian ethics
love is related to a particular tradition
of moral norms understood as both revelation and
natural law in a particular communal context.
Here is the culmination
of Israel's thought about
natural law: a glorious day should dawn when man's jungle impulses would atrophy, when right would triumph deep in human nature, and society would pursue its happy course in a state
of «anarchy,»
of «no
law,» because everyone would do the high and noble thing through his
love for it, in obedience to the unwritten
law inscribed on his heart!
Human freedom has to be understood ultimately in light
of the mystery
of God, the
love of Christ, and the beauty
of the
natural law.
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Law garnered both a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance, further cementing his reputation as one
of the more promising up - and - coming actors on either side
of the ocean.After a turn as a Russian marksman facing off against a Nazi sniper in Enemy at the Gates (2001),
Law returned to sci - fi with his role as
love machine Gigolo Joe in Steven Spielberg's eagerly anticipated A.I.In addition to his acting commitments,
Law kept busy with
Natural Nylon, the production company he founded with Sadie Frost, Sean Pertwee, Ewan McGregor, and Jonny Lee Miller.
Princess Raccoon — This bizarre little pan-Asian film stars Favorite Actress © Zhang Ziyi, as, well, Princess
of the Raccoons who falls in
love, against
natural law, with a human, who's on the run from his villainous father, the King
of a neighboring Mountain, who's trying to kill him because a magic mirror claimed that the son would one day become more beautiful than the king.
The Watercolorist's Bag
of Tricks April 10, 2018 12:30 - 2 pm Location: Presidio
of San Francisco Naturalist, educator, and artist John (Jack) Muir
Laws is in
love with the
natural world and has lived his life sharing this passion with others.