God's Law Vs Religion

During the late 1800s both China and Japan were suffering from unequal treaties, poverty, civil unrest, and lack of modern technology. Both countries knew that reform was necessary in order to prevent further chaos, but the way each country approached reform varied. China’s attempts to reform were rather unsuccessful, while on the hand japans reforms succeeded in unifying the nation and undoing the unequal treaty system. The reforms that took place in both countries were very complex in nature and received both praise and condemnation from their respective peoples. The reforms goals were to both modernize the countries while at the same time keep traditional values.

He believes that acquiring God’s acceptance is through grace and faith alone in contrast to how the Galatians believed that acceptance was gained through adhering to the Laws of Moses. The topic of circumcision is a major contributor to this case. Physically, circumcision is simply a surgical procedure that removes the foreskin from a male penis;alsdkyh. Symbolically, however, it was considered a sign of the covenant that symbolized a person’s belonging with the people of God. Traditionally, the Galatians circumcised their children to preserve the covenant and to be accepted by God. Conversely, Paul considered the act of circumcision irrelevant and meaningless. He acknowledged the symbolic meaning of circumcision, but he despised the thought that it was required to be accepted by God and that it was necessary to affect one’s status with

Paul directly tells the Jews and Gentiles they have miss interrupted the Mosaic Law; that the Mosaic Law truly reveals that not one person is righteous before the Lord; therefore must seek salvation

Paul makes it clear in Romans and then again in Acts, that just because you are a Christian, and have accepted Christ and come to salvation, does not mean you can break the law. Paul is clear in Romans to the Jews that they are not to break the old ways or Mosaic Laws. In our text you will read that a person born to a Jewish woman is considered a Jew. So Timothy who had a Jewish mother, but a Greek father, would have been considered a Jew. Paul was not being hypocritical because the Jerusalem Council had come to these rules and written the letter to the Gentiles. Timothy was not by any standards a Gentile. He was considered a Jew because of his mother’s heritage. Paul would have wanted Timothy circumcised as a Jew should have been. Not to be circumcised in this matter would have been

The church of today needs to make sure that it’s speaking the language of the New Testament. Now, I’m not stating that every member of the church should speak Greek to whatever environment you may be in, but rather to proclaim the gospel with the understanding of the message in the original language. In our world today, we have a clash of two languages; one being the secular and the other being the Biblical. In our preaching, we feel we should succumb to modern language and in the end we fail because we have made the language and its message ‘modern’. The Christian preacher and teacher stand in the middle of the clash. Resolving the clash of the languages is the whole art of preaching and teaching the Word of God.

The Law of God is undoubtedly one of the most present themes in the Scriptures, and possibly one of the most misunderstood by almost all those who wish to do the will of the Creator. Given the relevance of the theme, the psalmist David placed it as the cornerstone in virtually every verse of Psalm 119.

Throughout our lives obedience to Gods will in all areas of our life can be a struggle. The people of ancient Israel stood as testament to this. However Gods promise to the Israelites is seen in this passage promising his blessings if they stood true to his law. This essay will explore the relationship between obedience to the law and Gods blessing using Jacqueline Grey’s Them, Us & Me principle of looking at the bible.

Religion and religious traditions both have ethical beliefs as a common set. Meaning, they have moral meanings and understandings. They don't actually measure the same set of ethics, however, many religions have some set of ethics and they believe that those particular ethics are mandated by some supernatural forces. For instance, Christianity have 10 commandments.

The English philosopher Stephen Law’s “The evil-god challenge” is a retort against the arguments raised in favour of the theistic belief that the world was created and is governed by an all knowing, supremely benevolent being. In order to refute the existence of the notion of a “good-god” as constructed in the arguments of theists, law has constructed his own hypothetical entity the “evil-god”. Law’s challenge stems from the logical and evidentiary problems that the concept of evil presents to the conception that there exists a supremely benevolent god. These problems are justifying the supreme goodness propagated as being part of the classical monotheistic understanding of god in a world where evil undeniably exists. Supporters of classical monotheism have created theodicies that justify why a wholly benevolent being would allow evil and suffering in a world fully under his control. In response Law suggests that the duty of, “those who believe in the god of classical monotheism, then, is to explain why, if belief in an evil god is highly unreasonable, should we consider belief in a good god significantly more reasonable?” (Law 360). Even if evil and good can coexist in the world, is not the former evidence against an all-encompassing god only interested in the ensuring of the latter?

The divine command theory correlates religion and ethics to create the idea that an action is morally right if it is commanded by God. To understand the divine command theory, one must understand what ethics is. Ethics is a theory or system of moral values. It is the study of right and wrong. But, what does that mean? Ethics sets the standard for what is right and wrong. It also discusses the development of a person’s moral standards. There are multiple things that can lead someone away from what is really ethical. A great example of this would be feelings. Ethics provides grounds for people to not murder, steal, or other serious crimes. “Right is Right because God, or a Rshi or a Prophet, commands it, and Right rests on the Will of a Lawgiver,

Paul’s argument of justification was that holiness was received by faith, not by works of the law. God’s promises to Abraham substantiate Paul’s point. The promises and God’s covenant with Abraham came centuries before the law, therefore law cannot invalidate promise. Jesus was not concerned with circumcision in the slightest.

In Shakespeare’s stage play Macbeth, a husband and wife are blinded by ambition which causes them to commit crimes to achieve power, but in the process they become unhappy and eventually died. Finally achieving their dream of power, did nothing for the couple except make them miserable and discontent with their lives. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s longing to be powerful figures made them engage in evil actions and directly led to their demise, revealing that in the ambitious pursuit of power a person can leave one distraught and disappointed with their achievements and bring about their own downfall.

The relationship between law and morality has a substantial degree of interest; but, the controversy between law and morality still remains unclear. This paper articulates that Devlin is correct and the state should be ready to purpose to some definite “harm” in order to justify law’s intervention. Both Devlin and Mill are discovered through the context of harm in their theories of good and bad and what they believe and sharing its strengths and weaknesses of strictly relying on harm as the main and by legitimate justification for state action. Therefore, harm is shown through cases by Labaye and R. v. Butler by discovering through examples by exogenous substances, religion and socioeconomic statuses.

Krimesh Patel ENWR 106 15 February, 2016 Prompt for "Hills like White Elephants": Symbolism Ernest Hemingway is an incredible writer, known for what he leaves out of stories not for what he tells. His main emphasis in “Hills like White Elephants” seems to be symbolism. Symbolism is the art or practice of using symbols, especially by investing things with a symbolic meaning or by expressing the invisible or intangible by means of visible or deep representations. Hemingway uses this technique to emphasize the importance of ideas, once again suggesting that he leaves out the important details of the story by symbolizing their meaning.

In the eyes of many, religion plays a significant variable in the choice we make. The circumstances and actions seen as acceptable are based off of a set of divine commandments taught to the people. Religion is very influential in what laws are adapted in countries. Rather we think so or not, law and religion go hand and hand in many ways. Our morals let us decide what is right or wrong, and many moral beliefs are based on that adapted set of commands taught to us in a specific religion. These morals are universal at times. Religion provides a strong basis to what is morally permissible to the human race. Many beliefs are similar in multiple cultural and religious groups. The system of laws created to contain order in countries fall into many divine commands. Why can’t religion be the guide to moral correctness?