Sentences with phrase «precepts as»

Nonetheless, I was surprised to see that the Jehovah's Witnesses» recruitment campaign is founded on such ecological precepts as «environmental destruction».

My favorite part of the article is her description of yoga precepts as they related to creating this unique partnership with people with dementia.

They invoked God in their civil assemblies, called upon their chosen teachers of religion for counsel from the Bible, and recognized its precepts as the law of their public conduct.

Our intention here is not to settle this controversy on the meaning and function of specific moral precepts as between a Catholic universal ethics based on essential natures and a situation ethics given a Protestant interpretation.

Nor is it true, as some suppose, that he was referring only to such formal principles as «good is to be done,» for he speaks for the greater part of the tradition when he expressly includes such precepts as «Honor thy father and thy mother,» «Thou shalt not kill,» and «Thou shalt not steal.»

It is quite another to say that people who take those precepts seriously may be enduring targets of litigation and legal sanction if they have the temerity to voice those precepts as their own and make them the ground of their acts even in their private settings.

It makes no difference if some individual Christian does not know it, but regards such precepts as immutable principles of his life and then is surprised when the Church makes changes in them.

The Gospels have within its» writings their precepts as to just where the Kingdom of God is located!

Do you mean precept as say, a particular person's natural tendency not to murder anyone because of their religious beliefs?

Not exact matches

Washington hopes her wrap fund will appeal to women, minorities, and institutional investors such as schools and pension funds — all of whom, she thinks, will appreciate the precept of investing through female - and minority - owned firms.

Indeed, its precepts have come to be widely regarded as a model for «good governance» and for the brand of investor activism illustrated by the Allergan story.

The topics and texts include some esoteric items, such as the ranking of churches and discussion about a common calendar; but they also include problems that emerge from adapting an ancient faith to a modern reality — like precepts of fasting and, in particular, regulations of marriage in a multicultural and interreligious world.

You have all right to believe as you do as do I. And I do belief in the precepts of Scripture, you do not have too, and you have that right not to but it does nt mean that your veiw is right for you have a right to be wrong.

«banned mormon cartoon» youTube search gets you a lot of info as to basic precepts so you can decide for yourself if it's just another denomination or something totally different with Jesus having 3 polygamous wives.

Yet, as I see things, we, our bodies are not only God established and God created buildings for the benefits of the Godly who reside inside of us, but are for our benefits for learning and understanding the precepts of «Fractal Cosmologies»!

If one uses the precept of Love for humankind as decision making, it is not clear, then, that the Papacy has to go?

In short, dwelling in the land should be — must be — an act of imitatio dei, and, as the Hebrew prophets taught, to fail to embody that religious precept is to forfeit the right to dwell in that sacred place.

But if one self - proclaims as Christian, one is presumably at least making attempts to live these precepts, and feels genuine remorse when one fails to do so.

If Israel views itself as caretaker of the land — its divine mission, in Buber's view — whose owner always makes space for those who need it (for those who choose to live with the same inclusive spirit), the religious precept of imitatio dei would require us as Jews to share that space, even the holy city of Jerusalem, to make it a «divine place» — the place «God intended to have made of it.»

The Gospel precept challenges, not simply our unreasoning and unworthy hatreds, but those hatreds which we feel, as did the early Israelites, we ought to cherish («Do I not hate them, O Lord, that hate Thee?

When I was a pastor, I often quoted Isaiah 28:10 - 13 as proof that God's preferred method of teaching was also line by line, precept upon precept.

It is historically correct to say that Christianity has never been a saving force in civilization when it has been looked upon as a set of noble precepts which men may observe in isolation.

The two most inspirational biblical precepts that apply to this issue are the same that apply to any social issue: 1) Love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself.

As the Catechism of the Catholic Church makes clear: «The natural law, present in the heart of each man and established by reason, is universal in its precepts and its authority extends to all men» (1956).

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.

He therefore reacts to an alteration in such Church precepts almost as if God or the enduring nature of the Church had altered, and as if, as a consequence, neither of them were to be trusted any more.

That original Islam is only hinted at in the Qur» an and the Hadith, which were written years after the prophet Mohammed had his mystical experience — just as the original precepts of Christianity are minimized and only obliquely presented in the New Testament and its «authorized» translations, interpretations and commentaries, which were written over many years, well after Jesus» ministry and Paul's mystical experience.

Benedict is writing to offer a structure to «establish a school of the Lord's service» and as an encouragement to Quisquis to hearken «to the precepts of the master and incline the ear of thy heart: freely accept and faithfully fulfil the instruction of a loving father».

The Christian must normally adopt an analogous attitude in theory and practice in regard to teachings and moral precepts of the Church which are put forward authoritatively by the Church, even if not as irrevocable dogma.

Has the false notion of an adversarial relationship between science and religion caused such division in subscribed beliefs that one can no longer view science and the belief in a superior intellect as a harmonious precept?

Are you worried, at all, that you will be reincarnated according to the Hindu religion, you haven't live according to their precepts so you'll come back as slime mold?

the law of Christ, in contrast to the pharisaic precepts, leads to «rest,» it can be called chrestos [«easy»] even though it is more difficult in terms of content; and, insofar as the «yoke» provides even now the anapausis [«rest»], it is termed «light,» even though its demands are heavier.

«Religion» is the sum of customs and teachings in which the religiousness of a certain epoch of a people has been expressed and formed, crystallized in precepts and dogma, and handed down to all future generations as inalterably binding.

Horatio Alger, Andrew Carnegie, the Episcopal Bishop William Lawrence of Massachusetts, and a host of other late 19th century figures regarded Franklin in essence as a patron saint and patterned their writings and lives according to his precepts.

But these people who were doing it all wrong were not qualified priests to be performing such sacrifices that allows the killing of an animal so Krishna, the original preceptor of the Vedas, came as Buddha and told them to forget the Vedas and live a life of non-violence (ahimsa) and to just follow his precepts.

Already in Nigeria, the Sudan, Indonesia and the Philippines as well as Brazil and Guatemala, rapidly growing religious factions are fiercely competing for converts, struggling for political power, inciting persecution and trying to legislate and enforce laws taken from various sacred precepts.

Among the precepts of Christ in the Gospels, and the precepts with which they are illustrated and supplemented in the Epistles, there are few which could be applied as positive rules, to be followed mechanically, and enforced if necessary by legal sanctions.

Since it is the faith that marks us as Christians, the life self - consciously lived in love of God and neighbor according to Jesus» precepts, then we can disagree on doctrines and still share this faith.

Furthermore, the degree of certainty of such historical aetiology can be increased by the fact that the rational inference is drawn under the light of faith and of inspiration, as of course happens in recognition of more precise precepts of the natural moral law.

It is one thing to say, as the courts already have, that the moral precepts of Christianity and Judaism may not supply the premises of the law in a secular state.

When people go around claiming that America is a Christian nation and make it plain as day that that means for them that their moral precepts should be imposed with the force of law, that is NOT a private matter.

5 So he did, and his moral precepts, so far as they are (scantily) recorded, are practical and down to earth.

More recently, the Vaughan Parents Action Group (VPAG) argued that «practising Catholic» also involves following the Precepts of the Church, such as bringing one's child for First Communion.

In continuing his pursuit of the truth, which carries with it a precise method of making the distinction between the definitely true and the possibly false, he employs the triage of his second precept of Discourse on Method: «The second, to divide each of the difficulties that I would examine as individual parcels, as much as it would be possible and required for a better resolution» (18).

(p. 23) THOMAS JEFFERSON: «I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by himself to be the most pure, benevolent, and sublime which have ever been preached to man.

As long as a congregation seems to surmount its problems of social interaction, it is easy to forget its congregational aspects and to view its members as free agents who spontaneously collaborate to practice high Christian preceptAs long as a congregation seems to surmount its problems of social interaction, it is easy to forget its congregational aspects and to view its members as free agents who spontaneously collaborate to practice high Christian preceptas a congregation seems to surmount its problems of social interaction, it is easy to forget its congregational aspects and to view its members as free agents who spontaneously collaborate to practice high Christian preceptas free agents who spontaneously collaborate to practice high Christian precepts.

Can't one love the triune God and His revealed Word in such a way that one sees His holy principles, precepts and commands as His loving protection for His called out people?

Now, in the absence in the Qur» an of any further elaboration on these subjects, any clear details as to how these duties are to be performed, it is obvious that through these references the Qur» an establishes the authority of the Sunnah, and grants to it the right to elaborate and define the general precepts of the Qur» an.

Just as metaphysical first principles are discovered in a mode of enquiry, so the precepts of natural law are those «presupposed in any situation in which learning and enquiry between rational individuals about their individual and common goods can be advanced and by any relationship in which individuals can conduct themselves with rational integrity.»

If people are like the Israelites at Mount Sinai, and are too afraid to approach God, or do not know if they can trust Him, He is willing to let them approach Him through priestly mediators, written precepts, and holy places, knowing that many will eventually see the emptiness of religion, and will seek Him directly as He has always wanted.