The authenticity of the legislation of the schools of thought is assured by the Qur» an, for it says that the affairs of the people are matters of counsel and it orders that the people should
obey the authority of those who are responsible for the common good and are known for sound interpretation.
Id al - Adha, also called Id al - Qurban, the festival at the end of the pilgrimage, is the Great Festival at which Muslims from all over the world gather at the mosques to worship and then kill animals to memorialize the story of Abraham and Ishimael and their willingness to
obey the authority of God.
Obeying the Authority of Scripture: Both individually and corporately Trinity Western wholeheartedly embraces all the Bible teaches in regard to faith, ethical commitments, and way of life, believing it to be the ultimate standard of truth and hope.
Not exact matches
Hidden under the idea that we should choose to ignore some portions
of the Constitution, is the other idea that there should be an informal Higher Constitutional Moral
Authority that will tell the rest
of us when we should ignore and when we should
obey this or that provision
of the Constitution.
However, I would
obey secular
authorities or work rules which prohibit propagation
of my beliefs at the work place and use appropriate times to discuss it.
The higher post-constitutional
authority would be an amorphous group whose members would include the New York Tim es Editorial Board, The primetime hosts
of MSNBC and whatever list
of academics the Democratic party could scrape together to sign petitions in favor
of why we should contemptuously ignore / slavishly
obey constitutional provision X.
Only when we love the
authority of this Other, this real person who comes to us from outside ourselves, will we find ourselves glad to
obey his commandments.
The Caliphate or Imamate in Islam is not based on a heavenly sanction which gives the Caliph power from God to rule the nation; he has no divine
authority which makes it the duty
of the people to
obey him at any cost.
«He is an
authority who, before giving us something to
obey, gives us something to think about... Man wants to be enlightened in his intelligence and this is the great debt
of gratitude we owe the Pope.»
Certainly, a public opinion in and
of the Church must remain within the framework
of the one compulsory profession
of faith and also
of a general readiness to
obey the
authorities.
Such beliefs entail the choice
of whose voice is to be hearkened - which
authority to
obey.
Thus, encyclicals
of the era urged Catholics to
obey legitimate
authority, beginning with the pope's own temporal
authority in the Papal States.
The eroding
of the parents»
authority and the repudiation
of the children's obligation to
obey has seriously contributed to the disintegration
of the family and has undermined the education
of the young in crucial respects.
The foregoing principles
of parent - child relationships — concern by the parents for the needs
of the child and the obligation
of the child to
obey the parents, within the context
of intelligent and benevolent
authority — are the foundation for the right kind
of education not only in homes but also in schools, which are established to aid and complete the family in its educative task.
The young should be taught to
obey the rules established by persons in
authority and to have a respectful regard for the principles
of conscience that those rules are meant to embody.
Pursued with the right kind
of arguments and with sufficient vigor, an escape from the «exemptions ghetto» can bring us out into an open field
of religious freedom in full — and
of moral freedom in full for all, thanks to the indispensable leadership role
of religious conscience, and the recognition
of the duty
of men and women to
obey God before any
authority of the state.
Philadelphia minister David Jones finessed the apostles» admonition to submit to
authority into commands to
obey «the just, the good, the wholesome and constitutional laws
of the land,» not tyrants.
One - vignette: a dying cancer patient, a man in his forties, demanded to be placed on his feet (he was in great pain) and was
obeyed because
of his moral
authority.
The Prophet draws this triple
authority from the Qur» an itself, for it commands us to
obey the Messenger's orders (Surah IV, 59; XXIV, 56), tells us that he who
obeys the Prophet
obeys the very commandments
of God (Surah IV, 80), and recommends that we follow his example (Surah XXXIII, 21).
First
of all it should be noted that one should never harm the consciences
of children in going against Church teaching merely to
obey the law: «Our fathers chained in prisons dark were still in heart and conscience free» and better to be thus than to be applauded by the Local
Authority advisers and teach what is wrong.
If we step out
of the glorious sunshine
of the post-Vatican II church and into the dark ages that preceded it, we find some highly relevant advice coming down from heaven by someone who knows our situation exactly and whose
authority is to be respected and
obeyed absolutely.
Some may balk at the taking
of these liberties; but the issue is one both
of accuracy and
of justice, and «we must
obey God rather than any human
authority» (RSV: «men» — Acts 5:29)
Hebrews 13:17
Obey your spiritual leaders and submit to them [continually recognizing their
authority over you], for they are constantly keeping watch over your souls and guarding your spiritual welfare, as men who will have to render an account [
of their trust].
Flow will we, privileged with this knowledge, answer the question the disciples verbalize when they have experienced Jesus»
authority over the forces
of chaos in the stilling
of the storm, «Who then is this for even the wind and the sea
obey him?»
Your husband will answer to God, and you must answer to God for how you respond to your husband, even when he causes you to suffer.Just as we are to
obey government in every ordinance, and servants are to
obey their masters, even the ones who are abusive and surly, «likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands»... You can freely call your husband «lord» when you know that you are addressing the one who put him in charge and asked you to suffer at your husband's hands just as our Lord suffered at the hands
of unjust
authorities... When you endure evil and railing without returning it, you receive a blessing, not just as a martyr, but as one who worships God.»
If then this issue has been settled by these Doctors
of Law or experts in this way, and we certainly are in those situations in which one may resist the governing
authority... we are unable to oppose... if in this instance it is necessary to fight back, even if the Emperor himself attacks, or whoever else may do so in his name... That until now we have taught absolutely not to resist the governing
authority was due to the fact that we did not know that the governing
authority's law itself grants the right to do so; we have
of course always diligently taught that this law must be
obeyed.
When it comes to the things
of God it is His
authority that we must
obey and didn't He place a female shepherd over His people?
«One
of the great consolations
of the monastic life,» says a Jesuit
authority, «is the assurance we have that in
obeying we can commit no fault.
When the Declaration later proclaimed that the church must always hear and
obey her Lord over against all other
authorities, it did so in the light
of the scriptures and the communal memory
of the church, which gives concrete embodiment to her worship.
We should vote and then
obey the laws
of the land, and pray for those in
authority.
A person
obeys the moral
authority of his peers because he shares their standards, values, and goals, and the dedication to truth that is implied in the operation
of science.
Just as Daedalus refused to
obey the tyrannical King Minos and secured freedom for himself and his son, so our hero, the prominent atheist A. C. Grayling, has refused to
obey false
authority and freed himself and his readers from the tyranny
of religion.
The Council said expressly that it and other general councils drew their
authority directly from Christ and that all, including the Pope, were «bound to
obey» them «in all those things which pertain to the faith» to the healing
of schism, and to the general reformation
of the Church.»
Such people had to
obey the Curial
authority, acting on behalf
of the Pope, or indeed the Pope himself.
And other texts: Letter
of Consolation to all who Suffer Persecution (1522), Temporal
Authority: to what extent it should be
obeyed (1523), covering a wide range
of the responsibilities
of the state, Ordinance
of a Common Chest (1523), That Jesus Christ was born a Jew (1523), a defence
of the teaching that Jesus was the promised «Messiah»
of the Jews, To all Christians in Worms (1523), Concerning the Ministry (1523), Trade and Usuary (1524), stricter than some earlier medieval theories but not in practice greatly different (and he sent a letter to the Saxon Chancellor, Gregory Bruck on the same topic), To the Councillors
of all Cities in Germany that they establish and maintain Christian Schools (1525), How God rescued an Honourable Nun (1524), the story
of an escape from a convent, A Christian Letter
of Consolation to the People
of Miltenberg (1524).
In July, Luther wrote a pamphlet defending himself, An Open Letter on the Harsh Pamphlet, spelling out with clarity and aggressive emphasis that there was no way
of avoiding one's obligation to
obey established civil
authority.
`... that all
authority in the last analysis rests on opinion is never more forcefully demonstrated then when, suddenly and unexpectedly, a universal refusal to
obey initiates what then turns into a revolution... Unlike human reason, human power is not only «timid and cautious when left alone», it is simply non-existent unless it can rely on others; and the most powerful king and the least scrupulous
of all tyrants are helpless if no one
obeys them, that is supports them through obedience; for, in politics, obedience and support are the same».
This particular child who came along later in our family was extremely willful and rebellious toward our
authority and would often require sessions
of correction lasting from one to two hours in length before the will would finally be broken... Even though you may think these methods
of correction that God has ordered parents to carry out are bestial, abusive, and unloving, you are the one who is bestial, abusive, and unloving if you don't
obey God in this matter.
An overwhelming majority
of Tory members (84 %) believe that schools should teach children to
obey authority, compared with 31 %
of Labour members and 38 %
of SNP and Lib Dem members.
In Section 287 (1)(2)(3)
of the 1999 Constitution, the decisions
of the Supreme Court, Court
of Appeal, Federal High Courts, High Courts
of State and FCT and other subordinate courts, shall be
obeyed and enforced in any part
of Nigeria by all
authorities and persons including President Buhari and his AGF.
«In my own view, this plot is an act
of desperation, blackmail, intimidation, abuse
of office and crude tactics aimed at turning our country into a Police State where top officials can not be made to
obey the law, follow due process and subject themselves to constituted
authorities,» the Senate President told Senators.
The Senate President has also charged the IG
of «blackmail, intimidation, abuse
of office and crude tactics aimed at turning our country into a Police State where top officials can not be made to
obey the law, follow due process and subject themselves to constituted
authorities.»
The study depicted in Experimenter (Grade: B --RRB- is just as controversial but less theatrical: A decade before Stanford started and aborted its own little autopsy
of human behavior, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard, eventually rocking some unflattering facial hair) tested people's willingness to
obey authority by instructing volunteers to administer electric shocks to strangers in another room.
Despite pleadings from the person they were shocking, 65 percent
of subjects
obeyed commands from a lab - coated
authority figure to deliver potentially fatal currents.
In Compliance, director Craig Zobel shows the dangers
of always following the rulebook and the extent to which some will go to
obey authority, even if said
authority is merely a voice zapped in from a telephone wire.
While sometimes willful and defiant and sometimes passive to the point
of self - extinction (Socrates did not protest his punishment), the heroes
of civil disobedience believed in the need to
obey a higher
authority and to be cleansed
of self - interestedness.
This forces Texas pet owners to
obey the current law or risk denial
of services and / or possible seizure
of their pet by animal control
authorities.
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court, by a 6 - 3 ruling in Medellin v. Texas, held that the President does not have the
authority to order states to relax their criminal procedures to
obey a ruling
of the International Court
of Justice.
Truck drivers must not only follow rules
of the road but also
obey special rules developed by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and Texas regulatory
authorities.
However, the rule
of law doctrine means
authorities may only act within the law and must
obey the law.