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Divine law is any law
LAW

LAW may refer to:* Anti-tank warfare, e.g. the US Army M72 LAW or the British Army LAW 80*Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights ...
 (or rule) that in the opinion of believers, comes directly from the will of God
God

God is a deity in theism and deism religions and other belief systems, representing either the sole deity in monotheism, or a principal deity in polytheism....
 (or a god)
Polytheism

Polytheism is the belief in or worship of multiple deities, such as gods and goddesses. These are usually assembled into a Pantheon , along with their own mythology and rituals....
. Like natural law
Natural law

Natural law or the law of nature is a theory that posits the existence of a law whose content is set by nature and that therefore has validity everywhere....
 (which may be seen as a manifestation of divine law) it is independent of the will of man, who cannot change it. However it may be revealed or not, so it may change in human perception in time through new revelation
Revelation

Revelation is the act of revealing or disclosing, or making something obvious and clearly understood through active or passive communication with the divinity....
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In Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas

Saint Thomas Aquinas, Dominican Order was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in the Dominican Order from Italy, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus and Doctor Communis....
's Treatise on Law, Divine Law, as opposed to Natural Law
Natural law

Natural law or the law of nature is a theory that posits the existence of a law whose content is set by nature and that therefore has validity everywhere....
, comes only from revelation or scripture, hence Biblical law
Biblical law

Biblical law refers to the legal aspects of the Bible, the holy scriptures of Judaism and Christianity.See:*Judaism:**Mitzvah, divine commandment, act of human kindness, a good deed...
, and is necessary for human salvation
Salvation

In religion, salvation is the concept that God saves humanity from death. As commonly conceived, He has both Will of God and omnipotence to realize human salvation....
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Divine law is any law
LAW

LAW may refer to:* Anti-tank warfare, e.g. the US Army M72 LAW or the British Army LAW 80*Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights ...
 (or rule) that in the opinion of believers, comes directly from the will of God
God

God is a deity in theism and deism religions and other belief systems, representing either the sole deity in monotheism, or a principal deity in polytheism....
 (or a god)
Polytheism

Polytheism is the belief in or worship of multiple deities, such as gods and goddesses. These are usually assembled into a Pantheon , along with their own mythology and rituals....
. Like natural law
Natural law

Natural law or the law of nature is a theory that posits the existence of a law whose content is set by nature and that therefore has validity everywhere....
 (which may be seen as a manifestation of divine law) it is independent of the will of man, who cannot change it. However it may be revealed or not, so it may change in human perception in time through new revelation
Revelation

Revelation is the act of revealing or disclosing, or making something obvious and clearly understood through active or passive communication with the divinity....
.

In Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas

Saint Thomas Aquinas, Dominican Order was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in the Dominican Order from Italy, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus and Doctor Communis....
's Treatise on Law, Divine Law, as opposed to Natural Law
Natural law

Natural law or the law of nature is a theory that posits the existence of a law whose content is set by nature and that therefore has validity everywhere....
, comes only from revelation or scripture, hence Biblical law
Biblical law

Biblical law refers to the legal aspects of the Bible, the holy scriptures of Judaism and Christianity.See:*Judaism:**Mitzvah, divine commandment, act of human kindness, a good deed...
, and is necessary for human salvation
Salvation

In religion, salvation is the concept that God saves humanity from death. As commonly conceived, He has both Will of God and omnipotence to realize human salvation....
.

See also

  • Antinomianism
    Antinomianism

    Antinomianism , or lawlessness , in theology, is the idea that members of a particular religious group are under no obligation to obey the religious law of ethics or morality as presented by religious authorities....
  • Biblical law
    Biblical law

    Biblical law refers to the legal aspects of the Bible, the holy scriptures of Judaism and Christianity.See:*Judaism:**Mitzvah, divine commandment, act of human kindness, a good deed...
  • Biblical law in Christianity
    Biblical law in Christianity

    Biblical law in Christianity generally refers to a discussion of the applicability of Biblical law in a Christianity. This is also referred to as God's Law or Divine Law....
  • Halacha
  • The Law of Christ
    The Law of Christ

    The Law of Christ is an undefined phrase found in the Pauline Epistles of the New Testament. Supersessionists and Dispensationalists believe this replaces or completes the previous Law of Moses of the Hebrew Bible....
  • Sharia
    Sharia

    Sharia is the body of Islamic religious law. The term means "way" or "path to the water source"; it is the legal framework within which the public and private aspects of life are regulated for those living in a legal system based on Fiqh and for Muslims living outside the domain....
  • Ten Commandments
    Ten Commandments

    The Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, are a list of religious and moral imperatives that, according to Judeo-Christian tradition, were authored by God and given to Moses on the mountain referred to as "Biblical Mount Sinai" or "Mount Horeb" in the form of two stone tablets....
  • Great Commandment
    Great Commandment

    The Great Commandment in Judaism is the name commonly given to a part of in the Hebrew Bible:The Great Commandment appears on a 1958 Israeli postage stamp in Hebrew and several other languages commemorating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights....
  • New Commandment
  • Noahide Laws
    Noahide Laws

    The Seven Laws of Noah , often referred to as the Noahide Laws, are a set of seven moral imperatives that, according to the Talmud, were given by Names of God in Judaism to Noah as a binding set of laws for all Human....
  • Mitzvah
    Mitzvah

    This article is about commandments in Judaism. For the Jewish rite of passage, see Bar Mitzvah and Bat MitzvahMitzvah is a word used in Judaism to refer to the 613 Mitzvot given in the Torah and the Mitzvah#Rabbinical_mitzvot instituted later for a total of 620....


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