Sentences with phrase «obedience to laws»

Souraya soon realizes that the only power she might have «would only be through exaggerated, even competitive, obedience to the laws of her husband's God.»

«As their king, you also need to mobilise the people for their own development through cooperation with the government by regularly paying tax, levies and fees, obedience to the laws of the land, promotion of peace and tranquillity and enthusiastic participation in development projects.

But somehow the conviction grew that behind all this, expressing himself through history, particularly that of the Jewish people, was the very God of the universe, and that he was the Lord of history; that he ruled the universe and man through laws, and that only through obedience to these laws could man live.

I also know it is through the atonement of Christ all mankind may be saved by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.

It's regulation had a severely negative effect on European development, just as can be viewed with Islam today and the current apparent efforts in some places to squash dissent and demand obedience to their laws.

The British court cited a South African decision from 2000, which acknowledged the difficulty of determining religious exemptions from obedience to laws.

While Christians should submit to the state, pray for its leaders, and render qualified obedience to its laws, to pledge allegiance is a profoundly religious act.

It offers protection to its people and in turn demands obedience to its laws.

«We believe that through the atonement of Christ all mankind may be saved by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.

Mormonism teaches that Jesus suffered for our sins in the Garden of Gethsemane, providing personal salvation (which may mean exaltation to godhood) conditional upon our obedience to the laws and ordinances of the LDS gospel.

This would destroy all obedience to law, both private and public, and replace it with individual fancy.

The assumption is always that the Jewish people received eternal life through obedience to the Law and following the sacrificial system instituted by Moses.

13) is not barely the professing a belief in the person of Christ; but moreover, implies a belief of his whole doctrine, and an obedience to his law; without which, the calling him Lord will save no man.]

We will see that Mary and Joseph's careful obedience to the law were key factors in preparing Jesus for his earthly ministry.

And he lived his whole life in obedience to the law, so that, according to Galatians 4:1 - 7 and Romans 6:14 - 17, we do not have to.

l God has entered into a covenant with America and will shower blessings on it only so long as some unknown remnant of Americans honors the covenant by obedience to the Law.

But this constant and emphatic dwelling on the inward disposition rather than the overt act might well excite the suspicion of those who insisted on the deed as the sole visible test of obedience to the Law of God.

Jews had been seeking salvation by obedience to the law, but this did not work.

There would have remained the dispute as to whether salvation comes through obedience to law or participation in the faithfulness of Jesus, but this could have continued as a debate that might prove fruitful for both parties.

But with respect to how the wealth is gained, except for the requirement of honesty and obedience to the law, these Christians have had little to say.

He goes to great lengths to show that the effort to overcome the consequences of idolatry by obedience to law is not successful.

Obedience to the law became an end in itself.

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.

Of course, when laws are created as a substitute for love, people think that what is important is obedience to the law, rather than learning to love.

But the obedience that He is after in us is not obedience to the law... but the obedience of faith.

The letters of Paul reveal that he had tried with desperate earnestness to find salvation in obedience to the Law.

but he is not alluding to any gradual approach to Christ through obedience to the law.

Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God; for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to Law.

Here and there it may be, we can catch a glimpse of the wonderful order in nature, the regularity of the stars, scattered over the wide spaces of the universe yet obedient to one law; the order to be found even in the microscopic world, as also within visible things concerning which science has given such amazing information in recent years; the order in the construction of a flower or of an animal, from the flea to the whale, a noteworthy obedience to law even in the life of man.

«Thou shalt have no other gods before me» is more than a summons to obedience to law.

Since the Christian's ultimate loyalty is to God and not the state in its demand for obedience to the law, the Christian always tempers his loyalty with insistences on justice with love that calls for an equality and liberty that holds the state's necessary powers of coercion under restraint and accountability to God.

They had hoped to gain eternal life by living in obedience to the law.

Our Jewish Sisters and brothers, frequently with some justification, have accused Christianity of being antinomian — that is, of believing that obedience to the law is unnecessary and perhaps even damaging to one's hope for salvation.

I think Whitehead also knew this, suggesting a radical reversal of the Western philosophical and religious tradition's insistence that virtue, there meant as obedience to law, can be externally taught.

If a relationship is dependent on the obedience to law, especially if that law is conceived of in terms of rules and regulations, the idea of merit inevitably enters in.

It was the way of obedience to the Law.

Obedience to the law must be determinable, and therefore law must concern itself with the What of action, not the How.

It was at the age of 12 that young Jewish men began their formal training in the synagogue, were received into Judaism as a «son of the law» and were expected to begin strict obedience to the law at this age.

«A lawyer should maintain high standards of professional conduct and should encourage other lawyers to do likewise... Obedience to law exemplifies respect for law.

They believe that the sacredness of the body and obedience to the law is far more important than everything around them.

They failed to show «respect for and obedience to the law, and respect for the rights of others,» and intentionally or recklessly failed to act competently, all in violation of legal Rules of Professional Conduct.

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.

(Ephesians 5:22 - 24) «Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

16 For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

No, obedience to such laws are for peace and harmony in society and culture as we live life with other human beings.

That is a central Christian teaching which many Christians find offensive since they have fallen into the Galatian heresy of beginning in the Gospel, but returning to the Law: saved by Grace, but remain saved by our obedience.

All of a sudden, «The soul knew in its very depths that it was living a lie, and this knowledge, together with the will to perform could only be communicated to the body as a resistance against its law of total obedience to the universal law of the Good and the True.»

These are real decisions and not just acts or good works done in obedience to God and in response to his known will, his law, his clear commandment.

We can not of course go more closely here into the question why the Church has the right and duty, not only to promulgate and inculcate the precepts of immutable divine law and to supervise its observance, but on its own initiative to go beyond this and lay down positive legal prescriptions, and impose obedience to them as a Christian's duty, although they are enacted with full consciousness that they are not necessarily eternally valid but can be changed and even abolished.

The young man cited I Corinthians 14:34 - 35 «Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.