In 1970, Arizonan lawyer Russel T. Tansie filed a suit against God on behalf of his secretary, Betty Penrose, seeking $100,000 in damages.
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But the Law speaks to those who are âin the Lawâ (literal translation), namely, to the Jews. He is showing that their own Law, in which they boasted, condemns them. They will not be justified by the Law unless they have kept it perfectly, which no one has.
One of the lawyers answered him, âTeacher, in saying these things you insult us also.â And he said, âWoe to you lawyers also! For you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
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One of the lawyers answered him, âTeacher, in saying these things you insult us also.â And he said, âWoe to you lawyers also! For you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers. Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed. So you are witnesses and you consent to the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs. Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, âI will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,â ...
âTeacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?â And he said to him, âYou shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment.
There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.
Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
But a Pharisee in the council named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law held in honor by all the people, stood up and gave orders to put the men outside for a little while.
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
The television play God on Trial (2008), written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, depicts a scene similar to that attributed to Elie Wiesel, but is also described by Boyce as " apocryphal ". In it, three Auschwitz prisoners sue God. The trial returns a guilty verdict, although with likely reasons for appeal.
In the comedy film The Man Who Sued God (2001), a fisherman played by Billy Connolly successfully challenges the right of insurance companies to refuse payment for a destroyed boat on the common legal exemption clause of an act of God.
On July 30, 2008, local media sources reported the Douglas County District Court was going to deny Chambers' lawsuit because Chambers had failed to notify the defendant.
In the " Angels And Blimps " (1998) episode of the television legal drama Ally McBeal, a boy with leukaemia attempts to sue God. In the episode " The Nutcrackers " (2006â2007) of the television legal drama comedy Boston Legal, a woman sues God for the death of her husband.
From this experience, Wiesel wrote the play and novel The Trial of God (1979). It is set in a Ukrainian village during 1649 after a massacre of the Jewish inhabitants, possibly as part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising. In the play, three traveling minstrels arrive in the village, having intended to perform a play.
God. In the U.S. state of Nebraska, State Senator Ernie Chambers filed a suit in 2008 against God, seeking a permanent injunction against God's harmful activities, as an effort to publicize the issue of public access to the court system. The suit was dismissed because God could not be properly notified, not having a fixed address.
In a suit against the world's religious institutions as God's representatives on Earth, the religious institutions face the dilemma of either having to state God does not exist to uphold the legal principle, or being held liable for damages caused by acts of God.
God gave the Law to reveal His standard of absolute righteousness. When you tell people that they have sinned against the holy God, you will often hear, âGod knows that Iâve done the best that I could. I believe in the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule. I try to live by the Sermon on the Mount.â.
Back in 2:13, Paul said, âIt is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.â As I explained when we studied that verse, some understand it in a hypothetical sense, that if anyone can keep the Law, he will be justified, but none can. Others (and I lean this way) say that in the context there, Paul was not speaking of hypothetical perfect obedience, but rather to the general obedience that some, by Godâs saving grace, are able to perform. He was not looking at the front end of how one attains justification, but at the pattern of life of those who have been justified by faith.
5:21-22 ). He did the same thing regarding the seventh commandment against adultery. He said that if youâve ever lusted in your heart after a woman, youâre guilty of adultery ( Matt. 5:27-30 ). He sums up the requirement ( Matt. 5:48 ): âTherefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.â How can anyone claim, âI keep the Sermon on the Mountâ?
Letâs look for a moment at the absolute righteousness of Godâs Law (Paul means the whole Old Testament), which gives us âthe knowledge of sinâ (3:20). A. The two great commandments sum up Godâs absolute standard.
These verses show Godâs standard of absolute righteousness and how that standard will convict everyone who trusts in his own righteousness. To be acquitted, we need the perfect righteousness of the Savior credited to our account (3:21-28). 1. God gave the Law to reveal His standard of absolute righteousness. When you tell people that they have ...
Jesus said ( Matt. 22:37-40) that the entire Law rests on the two great commandments: ââYou shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.â This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, âYou shall love your neighbor as yourself.â On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.â
âAccountableâ is a legal term that occurs only here in the New Testament. It means that we are guilty and liable for punishment. Itâs not that we are accountable in a human court, but to God Himself! He knows every evil thought that weâve entertained. He knows every secret sin that weâve committed. All things are open and laid bare before Him ( Heb. 4:13 ). Weâve all broken His holy Law, not just a few times, but thousands and thousands of times. How could we possibly hope that all charges will be dropped?
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That God will judge menâs secrets is in keeping with the fact sin is often related to the conscience, i.e., the inward and hidden moral reasoning of a man (cf. Heb 4:13 ). That this judgment will take place, and that Jesus will be the judge, is in keeping with the gospel which Paul preached.
The fact that God is impartial is demonstrated in the manner of his judgment: those who sin apart from the law will be judged apart from the law and those who sin under the law will be judged by the law and only those who do the law will be declared righteous (2:12-13). 1.
That Godâs judgment is impartial is seen in that both Jew and Gentile have law and that both are judged on the same basis, i.e., works (2:5-11). 1. Jews who are hard-hearted and unrepentant are storing up wrath for themselvesâa wrath they will receive on the day of Godâs righteous judgment (2:5). 2.
The point Paul is making, then, can be put as follows: if the Gentile knows âGodâs righteous decree,â then a fortiori the Jew should know it even better; âthereforeâ he is guilty as well.
2:2 Now we know that Godâs judgment is in accordance with truth against those who practice such things. 2:3 And do you think, whoever you are, when you judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape Godâs judgment? 2:4 Or do you have contempt for the wealth of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, and yet do not know that Godâs kindness leads you to repentance? 2:5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when Godâs righteous judgment is revealed! 2:6 He will reward each one according to his works: 2:7 eternal life to those who by perseverance in good works seek glory and honor and immortality, 2:8 but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness. 2:9 There will be affliction and distress on everyone who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek, 2:10 but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and also the Greek. 2:11 For there is no partiality with God. 2:12 For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. 2:13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous. 2:14 For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves. 2:15 They show that the work of the law is written in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend them, 2:16 on the day when God will judge the secrets of human hearts, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.
The primary arguments for this position are: (1) the for ( γΏĎ, gar) makes good sense if Gentiles are still in view in 2:1-16, and (2) Jews are not explicitly mentioned until 2:17; (3) the Jews did not practice the same sins as the Gentiles so Gentiles must be in view in 2:1.
Others argue that good works (v. 7) means âfaithâ and that the reference is to the Jew or Gentile who has faith. The problem with this view is that Paul does not use work ( áźĎγον, ergon) in this way, but instead often draws a sharp antithesis between faith and works (cf. 4:6).
The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure , making wise the simple;
9. Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. - Romans 13:8. 8. So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. - Romans 7:12. 7. Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. - 1 John 3:4.
yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified. - Galatians 2:16. 3.