The Law And What Portions Modern Christians Are

All of these laws seem ridiculous to us in today’s world. However, in the Puritan’s day, these laws made complete sense to them. The magistrates who originally wrote these laws, felt as if these were commandments from God.

They suggest that living in accordance with these laws will foster success while rebellion against the laws will produce consequences. The ten laws, “ 1) sowing and reaping, 2) responsibility, 3) power, 4) respect, 5) motivation, 6) evaluation, 7) proactively, 8) envy, 9) activity, 10) exposure” (Cloud & Townsend, 1999, p.p. 37-58) define Godly principles of relationships.

Christianity is one of the most influential religions on both ancient and modern Western society, with the religion based on the teachings of the prophet Jesus Christ who lived approximately between the years of 5 BC and 33 AD. It is claimed that Christ was the son of God whose spirit was embodied and sent to Earth as a human being to bring peace and prosperity to the less fortunate, and absolve the world of its sin. Jesus preached a doctrine of a supreme monotheistic god who ruled over the universe, as well as ethics and morals especially centred on the concept of faith and forgiveness. If one was to live their life in accordance to the Will of God and the teachings of Christ found in the written word of the Holy Bible, one would be absolved of their sin and ascend to the spiritual realm of God, known as Heaven, after their physical death.

The Ten Commandments are regarded as the fundamental laws that all Christians are to conform to. They were written by the hands of God himself and revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai, inscribed on two stone tablets. They offer basic rules of behaviour for spiritual and moral living to Christians. These laws still instruct Adherents today, for they expose sin and show us God's standard. Without the sacrifice of Christ, Adherents are completely helpless to live up to God's holy standard.

Although it can be tempting to break one of these laws, I believe that as long as I keep my faith with God and abide by these laws, I won’t have to doubt my future salvation. The Ten Commandments are significant to me because they

In Arthur Miller’s novel The Crucible we perceive the town of Salem, a land of peace, turn to a place of destruction. This town was a haven of religious freedom from Britain. In this new world, people were expected to be flawless and commit no sin. Unfortunately, with this community being based purely on the Bible these townsfolk could not commit to such particular laws. This town was on the brink of destruction and a simple lie turned everything upside-down.

A few thousand years ago, three sets of laws were composed that show remarkable similarities in their instructions on how to live a moral and righteous life. Although they were written hundreds of miles apart from each other, and in totally different cultures and civilizations, the Edicts of Ashoka, the Bible, and Hammurabi’s Code all elucidate the moral principles of self-control, justice, and abstention from harming living beings.

The continued immigration of culture from around the world forces the U.S. to recognize that the favoring of one religion over another would carry grave consequences. In other nations it is not so, such as the generally monotheistic Iran. In one of this week’s readings, “The Ten Commandments and American Law,” the author describes a situation when a sculpture of the Ten Commandments was wheeled out of an Alabaman courthouse, much to the disproval of the surrounding Christian population. This situation clearly illustrates the important role that diversity plays in assuring that church and state stay separated. Without diversity, there would be nobody offended by the placement of the Ten Commandments sculpture in the courthouse, and there the sculpture would remain. Whether the placement of the sculpture is a big deal or not isn’t the point; the point is in the principle of a Christian object being placed in a government institution that’s supposed to remain objective to the very last. While it may seem so, the separation is not that large between allowing a Christian object inside a courthouse and the institution of an overruling Christian law such as what Kony was trying to do in

In the gospel of Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, and 21-23 the Pharisees notice that Jesus’ disciples are eating without washing their hands. The Pharisees found this unusual because they wouldn’t eat until their hands were clean, which was the tradition of the elders that they had followed. However the Pharisees would not only cleanse their hands. They also cleaned their jugs, kettles, beds, and even themselves after returning from the market. So when they saw that the disciples were eating with unclean hands, they asked Jesus why the disciples didn’t follow tradition as they did. Jesus responded saying to the Pharisees that they disregard the commandments, yet they honor human tradition. Jesus then gathered the crowd and said to them that nothing that

Now looking in a aspect of law we that in the United States that Christian theology is much involved. we declare ourselves as people who have separated our values in law from the philosophies of church but in actuality its quite the opposite. the United States’ laws are deep rooted on many Christian ideologies on which we perform upon. What did Obama or any preceding president or any politician for that matter have to put his hand on before being sweared in to office? When in court for a review on the witness stand, what do we have to say? “Do you swear to tell the whole truth, nothing but the truth so help you GOD?” Our very law system and morality can be be matched with god ten commandments : “thou shalt not kill” and “thou shalt not steal.” What does it say on America’s money? on the bill it contains ”In GOD We Trust”, indicateing that God is really intwined within our law. inherently, Christian theology trails politics by learning its supremacy on people,

Biblical principles are the foundation that influenced the criminal justice system as we know it today. Many of the laws that we adhere to today were originally disseminated to the masses via the teachings and principles contained within the Bible. Many of the crimes against persons and property that are illegal by Christian standards were originally made illegal by biblical standards. This paper will discuss laws as they are written in the bible comparing them to laws applicable in today’s criminal justice system.

In the reading on Paul’s take on the law it talks about a consistency within his view of the law being that no one, Jew or Gentile, can live up to the law, only Jesus can. We would never be able to live up to the law even without the traditional “eating of the fruit” fall of man, somehow we would have messed it up and needed a savior, that savior being found in Jesus.

Justice has been misperceived to go hand and hand with rules in which a society must conform to, mostly in due part to the enlightenment era. In the case with the Romans, the laws they established, especially early on, dealing with the spread of Christianity has been interpreted with a sense of disgust for the unfair treatment targeted towards Christians, and later on to those of other faiths. However, I argue that, Roman law, when concerning religion, was used to strengthen the identity of what it meant to be Roman. Furthermore, as Rome, the political institution, was beginning to decay, as an act of acclamation, the formulation of Roman Laws allowed Christianity to be a main means of connection to what it meant to identify as Roman. Utilizing various primary sources, it is evident that faith had been gradually accepted as the dominant form of unity and law, beginning with Emperor Diocletian to Emperor Theodosia, even among emperors, the Catholic faith had shown that all men were under God, and under God they were all Roman.

These religious codes of conduct, such as the Ten Commandments, are generally very broad statements, elucidating only general principles that may be inconvenient to apply to each specific case. Some religious moral codes may also contradict one another. These contradictions compel religious believers to decipher religious directives or to draw out the implications of particular views- this is otherwise known as doing ethics.

Cleanliness in accordance with the Holy Bible means purity: to be pure in both body, mind and soul. During the time of Jesus, Jewish traditions considered some foods, animal, clothing and even people as unclean if certain rules and rituals are not followed or carry out. Cleanliness was next to Godliness, a pre-requisite to approach God. Jesus, who viewed the rituals surrounding cleanliness as Elders traditions rather than that of God will disregard many of them. One of the notable of such rituals is “The Hand Washing”. Before eating, a person must perform a ceremonial hand washing in order to be considered clean; Jesus will challenge this notion. There is an instant in the book of luke where Jesus was invited to dine with the Pharisees, to their surprise, Jesus did not perform the ceremonial hand washing before eating. While they look at him with surprise, Jesus said: “Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? But now as for what is inside you—be generous to the poor, and everything will be clean for you? (The Holy Bible, luke 11: 39-41). Jesus viewed the ceremonial handwashing as more of a face value and holding on to Elders tradition rather than that of God. He will approach “cleanliness” from an inward perspective rather than outward. He viewed cleanliness as an act of good deeds, love, and empathy towards one another rather