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Among early Christian writers, there existed differing viewpoints regarding the ethics of deception and dishonesty in certain circumstances. Some argued that lying and dissimulation could be justified for reasons such as saving souls, convincing reluctant candidates to accept ordination, or demonstrating humility by refraining from boasting about one's virtues.
Newton describes this letter as "an account of what the reading has been in all ages, and what steps it has been changed, as far as I can hitherto determine by records", [3] and "a criticism concerning a text of Scripture". [4] He blames "the Roman church" for many abuses in the world [3] and accuses it of "pious frauds". [4]
The Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) forbids perjury in at least three verses: "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor" (Exodus 20:12, part of the Ten Commandments), also phrased "Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor" (Deuteronomy 5, see Deut 5:16), and another verse "Keep yourself far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous do not kill; for I will not ...
Ethics in the Bible refers to the system(s) or theory(ies) produced by the study, interpretation, and evaluation of biblical morals (including the moral code, standards, principles, behaviors, conscience, values, rules of conduct, or beliefs concerned with good and evil and right and wrong), that are found in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles.
Sermon 94: On Family Religion - Joshua 24:15; Sermon 95: On the Education of Children - Proverbs 22:6: "Train up a child in the way wherein he should go: And when he is old, he will not depart from it." Sermon 96: On Obedience to Parents - Colossians 3:20; Sermon 97: On Obedience to Pastors - Hebrews 13:17; Sermon 98: On Visiting the Sick ...
Early Baptist preacher Benjamin Keach Martin Luther King Jr. Balthasar Hubmaier (1480–1528) (Anabaptist) Roger Williams (1603–1684) (Reformed/Particular Baptist) John Bunyan (1628–1688) (Reformed/Particular Baptist) William Kiffin (1616–1701) Benjamin Keach (1640–1704) (Reformed/Particular Baptist) John Gill (1697–1771) (Reformed ...
In Judaism, bible hermeneutics notably uses midrash, a Jewish method of interpreting the Hebrew Bible and the rules which structure the Jewish laws. [1] The early allegorizing trait in the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible figures prominently in the massive oeuvre of a prominent Hellenized Jew of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, whose allegorical reading of the Septuagint synthesized the ...
A lay preacher at a nineteenth-century Haugean conventicle. A lay preacher is a preacher who is not ordained (i.e. a layperson ) and who may not hold a formal university degree in theology . Lay preaching varies in importance between religions and their sects.