Sentences with phrase «not edicts»

Soft - peddling around an issue leaves people feeling like your input is a recommendation, not an edict.

The sacrifices were a concession by G - d to the Jews at Mt. Sinai (it was, after all, a negotiated contract, not an edict).

The «Edict of Milan,» whose milleseptuacentennial (so to speak) is being marked this year, wasn't an edict and wasn't issued at Milan.

You can not edict a person to be in a

Hands - on Leader by example, not edict.

And it was not an edict that came out in an email.

Not exact matches

Such edicts, meant to protect children with potentially fatal allergies, have forced parents to search the supermarket aisles — often in vain — for snacks guaranteed not to contain nuts or even nut residue.

Edicts won't work when it comes to getting this sort of a community moving in a common direction.

My increasing concern is that we won't see much from the incoming administration that doesn't involve intimidation, misuse of power, self - dealing, and attempts to use discretionary edict - as a substitute for equal protection and legislative process.

Islamic Finance has a set of specific rules which people follow when conducting business; such as the strict edict not to engage in usury or collecting interest off of loans.

Uber said expanding its service may be a boon for Saudi Arabia, a country where women are not allowed to drive because of fatwas, or religious edicts, issued by conservative Muslim clerics that uphold a distinct segregation between the sexes.

So Israel follows the «do not kill» edict when it deliberately seeks out and bombs the civilian homes and wives and tiny children of elected Palestinian government officials.?

Of course the other bible edict stating to pray in public is a big ol' Class A sin that won't hand you the remote to open the Pearly Gates... is breached each miserable Sunday you show up to fawn at the foot of some podium pounding bible pimp.

To disagree with the edicts of the church means... you're really not a Catholic.

There are plenty more edicts in the bible that people just ignore or just don't care.

In the beginning Joseph Smith didn't teach polygamy until Brigham Young suggested it and then then he wrote it in to a later edict.

If we lived in a theocracy, where every debate would be settled by edicts from the Bishop of Washington, this wouldn't be a problem.

They did not set their hands on the plunder, though both Persian law and the second edict allowed them to.

One might say there's a nice analogy between SCOTUS opinions and holy texts, in that if the edicts don't appeal to some self - evident consensus, for better or worse, they'll be re-intepreted to do so.

-1384), who produced the first English Bible (in 1382, not keeping it in Latin as the official language of the church), was condemned by Pope Gregory XI, issuing five edicts against him.

It is comparable to the arrogance of the Supreme Court in the 1992 Casey decision, when it declared that not the Court but the character of the nation is being «tested» by whether or not it follows the Court's five - to - four edict in support of the abortion license.

Even if I accepted the premise that the Christian bible (in its present form no less) somehow represents the final word on God's will... it still does not reveal any such edict.

It was not Jesus announcing a «law of the Medes and Persians» edict from heaven onto mankind.

It is very likely that Mordecai and Esther were not even alive when the edict was given to return.

A society made over by totalitarian edict, as in much of the life under communism today, would not be the kingdom of God.

They know about the anti-Jewish polemics of certain church fathers; about the forced baptisms, especially of children; about the church council decree that sanctioned the removal of such children from their parents; about a papal edict encouraging raids on Jewish synagogues by the faithful; about the expulsion of all Jews from a country like Spain; about Luther's hate language directed against Jews when they did not convert according to his timetable; about the prohibition against Jews living in Calvin's Geneva; and about all the cruelties Christians have felt justified in perpetrating against the people they called «Christ - killers.»

LoA Since the edict to kill cats came from the church, and was taught to the people (otherwise it would not have been everywhere) by the churches leaers, the correlation can be verified.

By the way by no means does this mean that I am particularly against Islam, I am also against Judaism, Christianity, and any unproven dark age manifestation of a all knowing, creator, If there was a god he sure does «nt need help enforcing his edicts and morals, remember that if there is a god then as many religions state, people will be judged upon there beliefs and sins after death and spend eternity in heaven or hell, so why is it so important for people to butt in and start trying to control each other and force people to believe in something that many think is absurd and insane.

Do you think that there is a god handing down edicts on what is moral and not?

When he saw that the first edict was not sufficient to torture Christians, he passed another edict in 258 AD.

They then decided to qualify it, but that qualification is NOT in the edicts of Vatican 2.

And make no mistake, it is only your standard, not some universal edict written in stone.

The Golden Rule also has roots in the two old testament edicts, found in Leviticus 19:18 («Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself»; see also Great Commandment)

in connection with the terrorist attacks — because jihad is something that Muslims respect — I got up and responded as follows: «I'd like to relate to this comment not as an academic, but as a Jew... We Jews have in our Bible the edict of «an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.»

I with Obama had not drawn the line at the use of chemical weapons, because now he pretty much has to use our military to back up his edict.

The Golden Rule also has roots in the two old testament edicts, found in Leviticus 19:18 («Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself»; see also Great Commandment) and Leviticus 19:34 («But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God»).

It's not a matter of the gov» t issuing an edict and manna just falling from heaven to solve everyone's woes.

It's only because we've already been through this that I take the liberty of suggesting to you Muslims that you, too, drop the edict of jihad, which isn't even one of the five pillars of Islam.

I mean, don't mess with the Big Guy's edicts, right?

The church for a very long time apparently did not interpret biblical teaching as an edict for one - man, one - woman marriage.

There is on one side of this coin the students» tendency to attend lectures which they need for their examinations; on the other side is the fact that there is strong political support for Küng among the students (there was a huge rally and torchlight parade last December on the night following the Roman edict to withdraw his missio canonica), and for many students, both Protestant and Catholic, the issues in the Küng case are larger than the man himself, Küng's status at the university is not dependent on the number of students who come to his lectures (nor on the number of his doctoral students), but the fall semester will be some index of the viability of this new «third track» in theology.

It was also the same year that Galerius died, but not before he published the Edict of Toleration from Nicomedia.

I'm not even going to mention the large percentage of American Catholics who violate this edict by using contraception on a regular basis... or the hypocrisy of Catholic hierarchy who went to great lengths to cover - up some very un-Godly behavior by a scary number of its priests

In 1685 Louis XIV, intent on being absolute monarch and determined to be rid of a religious minority who constituted an enclave not yet fully integrated under his rule, revoked the Edict of Nantes.

Now they send an edict to the scouts wanting to change something that really isn't broke.

I don't like how it made me feel when I was a believer (I could never live up to those expectations), and I don't like how it makes me feel now (anger at theological edicts).

The rather humane provisions of the mis - named «Edict of Milan» were not infrequently ignored in subsequent Western history; but that doesn't alter the fact that the «Edict» had a profound and, in many respects, beneficial influence on the future of the West.

Thus the not - really - an - Edict of Nicomedia and Elsewhere cemented into the foundations of the West ideas first sketched by the Christian philosopher Lactantius: that coercion and true religious faith don't mix because «God wishes to be adored by people who are free» (as Joseph Ratzinger would rewrite Lactantius a millennium and a half later, in the 1986 Instruction on Christian Freedom and Liberation).

Ned Yost's Rodriguez - free roster isn't some conspiracy, an edict from the new commissioner and the lurking shadow people.

With that edict in place on Wednesday, the R&A probably wasn't thrilled to see a pair of Northern Irishmen exchange some money in a very entertaining and public way.