Sentences with phrase «under biblical law»

In most ancient near Eastern cultures, including Israel, unmarried women were considered the property of their fathers (or the male head - of - house), and under biblical law could either be sold into slavery to pay off debt or married for a bride price (Exodus 21:7, Nehemiah 5:5; Genesis 29:1 - 10).

With all of these discussions and opinions you shared in great detail regarding slaves bound under biblical law, how can you say that you do not admit that the bible condones slavery?

Not exact matches

Investment for return (as Rodney Stark relates in The Victory of Reason) largely occurred against the grain of Church teaching, the Spanish Scholastics being largely ignored, and it was Calvin's application of biblical law to trade and commerce that created the competitive tension under which a millennium of misapplication and resultant economic suppression could begin to be corrected.

I refuse to live under any «biblical» magic book law.

Yet even in the case of blood vengeance, biblical law at least keeps the system under the watchful eye of the elders, who arbitrate the claims of the respective parties, just as in the more direct cases of lex talionis.

That biblical vision helped form the bedrock convictions of the American idea: that government stood under the judgment of divine and natural law; that government was limited in its reach into human affairs, especially the realm of conscience; that national greatness was measured by fidelity to the moral truths taught by revelation and inscribed in the world by a demanding yet merciful God; that only a virtuous people could be truly free.

I am saying that whether one believes we are under the law or under grace... there is still no biblical mandate of sexual abstinence outside of marriage unless one is a woman and the property of a man whose property value goes down once she is no longer a virgin.

The biblical interpretation stands, above all, under the archetype of the covenant, but it is also consonant with the classical theory of natural law as derived from ancient philosophy and handed down by the church fathers.

But according to the biblical witness, man does not exist under a cruel law of self - preservation, nor is pleasure the goal of his life.

Had Mr Seay done his Biblical homework (as well as his «flock»), he would have seen that under the Mosaic Law covenant, that tattoes were a violation of the Law.

This new analogy invites us to place the originary expressions of biblical faith under the sign of the poetic function of language; not to deprive them of any referent, but to put them under the law of split reference that characterizes the poetic function.

TWU considers that sexual intimacy outside heterosexual marriage falls into this category of actions permitted under Canadian law but inconsistent with their biblical view of sexuality.