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moral and code
Men believed they could control nature by obeying a moral code.
If the moral code were flouted, the proper balance of the universe would be upset, and the disastrous result could be floods, plague, or famine.
He does not do it for any grand, religious purpose, like Paneloux ( Rieux does not believe in God ), or as part of a high-minded moral code, like Tarrou.
The cooperative movement seeks to build new institutions which conform to cooperative principles, and generally does not lobby or protest politically, and clergymen often exhort their parishioners to follow a particular moral code or system.
Thus in Austinian terms a moral code can objectively determine what people ought to do, the law can embody whatever norms the legislature decrees to achieve social utility, but every individual remains free to choose what to do.
In The Moral Point of View, Kurt Baier objects that ethical egoism provides no moral basis for the resolution of conflicts of interest, which, in his opinion, form the only vindication for a moral code.
Ingle later noted that Orwell did not accept the existence of an afterlife, believing in the finality of death while living and advocating a moral code based on Judeo-Christian beliefs.
Some refer to this political activity as a separate and radical branch of the ecology movement, one that takes the axioms of the science of ecology in general, and Gaia theory in particular, and raises them to a kind of theory of personal conduct or moral code.
He began the process of replacing Christianity with a new moral code that rejected humanitarianism and challenged the Christian concept of marriage.
The early Crusades helped to clarify the moral code of chivalry as it related to religion.
Most scholars see chapters 1 – 16 ( the Priestly code ) and chapters 17 – 26 ( the Holiness code ) as the work of two related schools, but while the Holiness material employs the same technical terms as the Priestly code, it broadens their meaning from pure ritual to the theological and moral, turning the ritual of the Priestly code into a model for the relationship of Israel to God: as the tabernacle is made holy by the presence of the Lord and kept apart from uncleanliness, so He will dwell among Israel when Israel is purified ( made holy ) and separated from other peoples.
The most prominent and widespread moral code to be found in the contemporary pagan movement is the Wiccan Rede, which states that those who follow it should " do as you will, as long as you harm none ".
This code is a set of moral imperatives that, according to the Talmud, were given by God as a binding set of laws for the " children of Noah "that is, all of humankind.
The purpose of a moral code, Rand held, is to provide the principles by reference to which man can achieve the values his survival requires.
Rand's explanation of values presents the view that an individual's primary moral obligation is to achieve his own well-being — it is for his life and his self-interest that an individual ought to adhere to a moral code.
His leadership, influence and legacy led to the formation of communities dominated by Gentile groups that worshiped the God of Israel, adhered to the " Judaic moral code ", but relaxed or abandoned the ritual and dietary teachings of the Law of Moses, that these laws and rituals had either been fulfilled in the life of Christ or were symbolic precursors of Christ, all on the basis of Paul's teachings of the life and works of Jesus Christ and his teaching of a New Covenant ( or " new testament ") established through Jesus ' death and resurrection.
The United States Military Code of Conduct was promulgated in 1955 via Executive Order 10631 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower to serve as a moral code for United States service members who have been taken prisoner.
Working on this planet is an absolute moral code.
Some scholars point to this frequent device as evidence of the shift in the American moral code as it showed freer attitudes about divorce ( though the divorce always turns out to have been a mistake ).
His origin remains a mystery, but in the books his income derives from the pockets of the " ungodly " ( as he terms those who live by a less moral code than his own ).

moral and Bible
Some deists rejected the claim of Jesus ' divinity but continued to hold him in high regard as a moral teacher ( see, for example, Thomas Jefferson's famous Jefferson Bible and Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the Creation ).
In Antioch, over the course of twelve years, John gained popularity because of the eloquence of his public speaking, especially his insightful expositions of Bible passages and moral teaching.
The majority of the Christian Bible is, in fact, Jewish scripture, and it is used as moral and spiritual teaching material throughout the Christian world.
His analysis showed the Puritans as providing the foundational values of America, based on their strong Hebrew Bible view of the world, which included fighting for earthly political justice, an emphasis on laws and education, and the " chosenness " which the Puritans identified with, giving them a sense of moral mission in founding America.
Puritans sought both individual and corporate conformity to the teaching of the Bible, with moral purity pursued both down to the smallest detail as well as ecclesiastical purity to the highest level.
It promotes conservative or literal interpretations of the Bible as the basis for moral values, and enforcing such values by legislation.
The corporation's stated purposes are: “ Charitable, benevolent, scientific, historical, literary and religious purposes ; the moral and mental improvement of men and women, the dissemination of Bible truths in various languages by means of the publication of tracts, pamphlets, papers and other religious documents, and for religious missionary work .”
* Maltheism is an ad-hoc coining appearing on Usenet in 1985, referring to the belief in God's malevolence inspired by the thesis of Tim Maroney that " even if a God as described in the Bible does exist, he is not fit for worship due to his low moral standards.
' This can sometimes ( as with the conflict between William Tyndale and Thomas More over the translation of the Bible into English ) lead to moral quandaries: " Do I unreservedly obey my Church / priest / military / political leader or do I follow my own inner feeling of right and wrong as instructed by prayer and a personal reading of scripture?
All of his students converted and signed the " Covenant of Believers in Jesus ", committing themselves to continue studying the Bible and to do their best to live moral lives.
Augustine wrote extensively on many religious and philosophical topics ; he employed an allegorical method of reading the Bible, further developed the doctrine of hell as endless punishment, original sin as inherited guilt, divine grace as the necessary remedy for original sin, baptismal regeneration and consequently infant baptism, inner experience and the concept of " self ", the moral necessity of human free will, and individual election to salvation by eternal predestination.
" Sunday claimed to be " an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion ," and his uncomplicated sermons spoke of a personal God, salvation through Jesus Christ, and following the moral lessons of the Bible.
The Bible symbolizes the unique quality of Christian education which includes moral and spiritual training in addition to academic education.
Some Christians assert that the Bible is free from error only in religious and moral matters, and that where scientific questions are concerned, the Bible should not be read literally.
" By contrast, young Earth Creationists contend that moral and spiritual matters in the Bible are intimately connected with its historical accuracy ; in their view, the Bible stands or falls as a single indivisible block of knowledge.
Hicks ' teachings is that the Bible is the infallible Word of God and that it calls on Christians to grow to spiritual maturity, both in their moral development and in their spiritual love relationship with Jesus Christ, in order to be in the Bride of Christ.
Sinai ; Bible history being the story of how the Hebrews would follow or not a comprehensive moral order.
The social structure advocated by Christian Reconstructionism would have the clergy, laity and government, individually and corporately, to be in ultimate submission to the moral principles of the Bible, including the Old Testament, while retaining their separate jurisdictional spheres of authority and roles in society as inferred from principles of biblical law, both Old and New Testaments.
Under the covenantal overview of the Bible, submission to God's rule and living in accordance with his moral law ( expressed concisely in the Ten Commandments ) is a response to grace-never something which can earn God's acceptance ( legalism ).
" Puritanism … and the epidemic of evangelism of the mid-eighteenth century, had created challenges to the traditional notions of social stratification ” by preaching that the Bible taught that all men are equal, that the true value of a man lies in his moral behavior, not his class, and that all men can be saved.
Bernard Bailyn argues that the evangelism of the era challenged traditional notions of natural hierarchy by teaching that the Bible taught all men are equal, so that the true value of a man lies in his moral behavior, not his class.

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