The idea that people decide what is normative in life is opposed to the Word of God, which teaches that God is sovereign as the final lawgiver. |
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According to tradition, Numa was the great civil and sacred lawgiver of regnal Rome. |
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This chapter and verse makes clear that only God can be our lawgiver, judge and King. |
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So the perfect judge would have to be the perfect lawgiver, whose laws are not only infinitely complex but also ordered toward a perfectly just society. |
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It basically says that the law is whatever the lawgiver says it is. |
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In strict logic, one is forced to define harmful animals as those reputed to be such by the lawgiver. |
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If atheists believe they are just rearranged pond scum, and that there is no absolute moral lawgiver, then on what grounds can they justify truth-telling? |
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The first solution makes a distinction between God as creator and God as lawgiver. |
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For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they shall go from virtue to virtue, the God of gods shall be seen in Sion. |
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In the old time family the father was the sole economic provider, the religious leader, the ruler, protector and lawgiver. |
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Dirty dikes Angela the lawgiver ReprintsMrs Merkel holds out the prophecy of a political union. |
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Indeed, unlike the civilian situation, the Government is often employer, landlord, provisioner, and lawgiver rolled into one. |
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Darius particularly wished to be remembered as the great lawgiver, and law reform was one of the cornerstones in his program for reorganizing the empire. |
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Dirty dikes Angela the lawgiver ReprintsIn November Poland's foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, gave a big speech in Berlin in which he urged Germany to act to save the euro. |
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Dirty dikes Angela the lawgiver ReprintsThe fuss erupted in January after media reports drew attention to how many of the party's leading lights are being spied on, sometimes with clandestine methods. |
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Solon, the great lawgiver of ancient Athens, remarked: The city is best modelled where those that are not injured prosecute and punish the unjust as zealously as do those that are injured. |
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The rabbis worked in the spirit of Moses the lawgiver when they determined to make the Torah the Book of the People by translating it into the vernacular, and expounding it for themasses. |
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It is easy to see how Moses, the liberator and lawgiver, became a hero. |
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We must observe the letter of the law, without doing violence to the reason of the law and the intention of the lawgiver. |
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Though he thought of religion as a tribal survival strategy, Darwin was reluctant to give up the idea of God as an ultimate lawgiver. |
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He created the type of lawgiver, the nomothetes, in the classical sense, not for Hellas only, but as a model for mankind. |
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