Religious Law - Christianity

Christianity

See also: Christian ethics, Render unto Caesar..., Letter and spirit of the law, Legalism (theology), and antinomianism

In some Christian denominations, law is often contrasted with grace (see also Law and Gospel and Antithesis of the Law): the contrast here speaks to attempts to gain salvation by obedience to a code of laws as opposed to seeking salvation through faith in the atonement made by Jesus on the cross.

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Famous quotes containing the word christianity:

    “I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Wherever there are walls I shall inscribe this eternal accusation against Christianity upon them—I can write in letters which make even the blind see ... I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty—I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind....”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)