Word: obey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberalism with anti-semitism and nationalism. Resistance was organized under the leadership of Pastor Martin Niemoeller in the Pastor's Emergency Federation, and at the Barmen Synod the declaration was adopted according to which Jesus Christ is the only Word of God that men are to hear, trust, and obey. The pastors were harrassed, arrested, deported, called into military service, prevented from conducting services, not allowed to train theological students, and their churches were pacified by a government Ministry for Church Affairs. They were harrassed for over 12 years, until the end of the Second World...
...political and social issues that are close by whenever theological statements are made. Barmen, in Germany in 1934, was the meeting place of the first Synod of the Confessing Church. The Synod said Jesus Christ is the only Word of God that men are to hear, trust, and obey; the Synod condemned the suggestion that there might be any source for the church's proclamation other than revelation...
...weight of these sad times we must obey...
Price found it "utterly inconsistent on the one hand to expect southern whites to obey anti-segregation laws despite strong feelings supported by Biblical texts, and to expect on the other hand exemption from the law for the sake of our conscience in this...
...course, if your conscience won't let you go to war, you must obey it," he said. "You must refuse the draft, and take your chances on court -- where we may expect the judgment to be an understanding...