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Velichko A.M.,
Doctor of Laws

King and the Old Testament Church
«Whoever would say, undoubtfully, that due to natural conditions of human life kings are the highest representatives of the nation, its color, they embody spiritual strength of people»
Y.A. Bogorodskiy   «Jewish kings»
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What should be the nature of the relationship of Church and State, whether they should be co-workers in the development of human or antagonists? How many spears were broken around this and other similar questions in theoretical debates! However, despite the variety of options, we are not afraid to say that, as a rule, all distinguishing theoretical versions are caused by only one circumstance —personal understanding of  the author, what the state and the Church are. Today, the state is often understood as an equal to the machinery of government, the same as the Church with hierarchy of it.  In fact, the Church is not only bishops, and all the believers in Christ. And the state is a society united by a single authority, and living under one law, not only the bureaucracy. And it is impossible to separate the Church from the State, if its members are simultaneously citizens of this political union. Earlier when society lived according to the laws of Christ, it was taken for granted. Not coincidentally, St. Gregory Palamas, who lived in the XIVth century, portrayed the civil war in Byzantium not as a political event, but as a catastrophe of the Church.

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Velichko A.M.,

Doctor of Law,

Fetisov Timofey

                                                                              Archpriest, Candidate of Theology

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Sacral basis of Law

 «Law is the eternal truth, its foundation is in God. There is God, therefore, there is Law as a universal and necessary definition of peace, which draws its life in God and flows from it. «

                             F. Harms

«Being created with free will, a person is truly free only when he lives and acts correctly, but not according to his will. Sudden, illegal wishes immerse man in slavery of sin and put him into the power of a hostile evil force, the law for which is lawlessness. Observing the law and following the path of the law, people do good and fair deeds; breaking it, disregarding the law, they are undergone to  punishment in life  on the  Earth, and in the future. «

                V.I. Ivanov

What is Law? For many centuries this question has been on the agenda of jurists. It is clear what legislation is. This is a set of existing legal acts (laws, decrees, orders, instructions), adopted by the authorized bodies of the state, establishing rules of conduct, prohibitions on certain actions and sanctions for their non-compliance. But what the word «law» means is not clear, because until today the conventional wisdom has not been formed. And the mockery of the great Immanuel Kant: «Lawyers are still looking for the right definition of law» is still actual now.

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