In Jesus Christ, we find the perfect model of obedience. As his disciples, we follow Christ's example as well as his commands. Our motivation for obedience is love:.
Obedience Is an Act of Worship. While the Bible places a strong emphasis on obedience, it's critical to remember that believers are not justified made righteous by obedience. Salvation is a free gift of God, and we can do nothing to merit it.
True Christian obedience flows from a heart of gratitude for the grace we have received from the Lord:. God Rewards Obedience. Over and over again we read in the Bible that God blesses and rewards obedience:.
Obedience to God Proves Our Love. The books of 1 and 2 John clearly explain that obedience to God demonstrates love for God. Loving God implies following his commands:. Obedience to God Demonstrates Faith. When we obey God, we show our trust and faith in him:. Obedience Is Better Than Sacrifice. The phrase "obedience is better than sacrifice," has often perplexed Christians. See Obedient, and cf. Obedience, in human behavior, is a form of "social influence in which a person yields to explicit instructions or orders from an authority figure" Obedience is generally distinguished from compliance, which is behavior influenced by peers, and from conformity, which is behavior intended to match that of the majority.
Obedience can be seen as both a sin and a virtue. For example in a situation when one orders a person to kill another innocent person and he or she does this willingly, it is generally considered to be a sin.
However when one orders a person to kill an enemy who will end a lot of innocent lives and he or she does this willingly it can be deemed a virtue. Humans have been shown to be surprisingly obedient in the presence of perceived legitimate authority figures, as shown by the Milgram experiment in the s, which was carried-out by Stanley Milgram to find how the Nazis managed to get ordinary people to take part in the mass murders of the Holocaust.
The experiment showed that obedience to authority was the norm, not the exception. Regarding obedience, Stanley Milgram said that "Obedience is as basic an element in the structure of social life as one can point to; Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is not forced to respond, through defiance or submission, to the commands of others.
Expectation on a monument. A dignified retreat from Balaklava. Lex Talionis playing 'possum. The second law of Nature, the first being murder. Submission to the orders of a superior. The first principle which ought to be inculcated and impressed upon the mind of every officer and soldier is obedience to all lawful commands. It is the mainspring, the soul and essence of military duty. It is evident that if all officers and soldiers are to judge when an order is lawful and when not, the captious and mutinous would never be at loss for a plea to justify their insubordination.
It is, therefore, an established principle, that unless an order is so manifestly against law that the question does not admit of dispute, the order must first be obeyed by the inferior, and he must subsequently seek such redress against his superior as the laws allow. If the inferior disputes the legality before obedience, error of judgment is never admitted in mitigation of the offense.
The redress now afforded by the laws to inferiors is not, however, sufficient; for doubtful questions of the construction of statutes, instead of being referred to the Federal courts of law for their true exposition, have received variable expositions from the executive, and left the army in an unfortunate state of uncertainty as to the true meaning of certain laws; and this uncertainty has been most unfavorable to discipline.
Again, while the punishment of death is meted to officers and soldiers for disobedience of lawful commands, the law does not protect officers and soldiers for obeying unlawful commands. Instances have occurred in the United States, where officers and soldiers have been subjected to vexatious prosecutions, simply for obeying orders according to their oath of office.
Would it not be just if the law, instead of requiring officers and soldiers thus nicely to steer between Scylla and Charybdis, should hold the superior who gives an illegal order alone responsible for its execution? Submission Tractability. William Shakespeare :. And his commandments are not burdensome. Rise, let us go from here. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets. Love the Lord your God : Obedience can be to simply honor and praise God for your life and the blessings within. While this may seem obvious and easy, there are many distractions in the modern world technology in particular that can sidetrack us from appreciating the glory of God in our daily life. Several studies have shown that nurses will often carry out the orders of a physician even when there is a good reason to believe that potential harm could come to the patient.
High school students were found to be even more willing to obey orders. Cross-cultural research in other Western cultures has also yielded high rates of obedience using Milgram's procedure.
Unfortunately, it seems as though Milgram's results were not flukes. By no means. The Asch and Milgram experiments have been repeated in many societies, where they have yielded results roughly similar to those seen in the United States.
Thus the phenomena of conformity and obedience seem to transcend culture Many of the studies have reported even higher obedience rates than those seen in Milgram's American samples.
Ever wonder what your personality type means? Sign up to find out more in our Healthy Mind newsletter. Principles of Social Psychology. American Psychological Association. Obeying and Resisting Malevolent Orders. Published May 25, Milgram S. Obedience to Authority: an Experimental View. Published June 8, Pastorino E, Doyle-Portillo S.
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