Sentences with phrase «obedience to the law»

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

The Jewish people, recognizing the loss of a prophetic voice to keep them on track, developed various religious organizations to help the people maintain obedience to the law.

Obedience to the law became an end in itself.

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

Hence formal obedience to the law as such is no radical obedience, though of course true obedience can exist in fulfillment of the law.

The freedom of the spirit is maintained so long as the meaning of ethical action is kept as response to the love of God rather than simply as obedience to law.

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

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.

While taxation and imprisonment is often a good way to get others to support your causes and force obedience to your laws, such tools do not always work among those who seek to serve a Higher Power, or believe they are following a Divine Law which supersedes human courts.

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.

In the Jewish scriptures, the response is primarily in terms of obedience to the law given by God.

Of course, James was concerned with orthopraxy far more than with eschatological reasons; while obedience to the law leads to God's approval, it also liberates those who are impoverished and promotes the well - being of the community as a whole.

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.

Rote obedience to law may actually do violence to God's will in a particular situation.

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

Thus God has always justified by obedience through trust and not by obedience to the law.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

No one disputes that the work ethic and obedience to the law are good things.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

They had come to believe that salvation was not the result of their obedience to the law, but the free gift of God's love, and what mattered now was a faith that worked through love (Gal.

As soon as legalists begin to make some headway in their own life in the «Obedience to the Law» department, they set themselves up as a manager in the department, and try to get everybody else to follow the rules as well.

Again and again it was affirmed that the very existence of the nation depended on loyalty to the God of the covenant and obedience to his law.