WORD AS THE BEGINNING OF GOD'S LAW AND THE CRIMINAL LAW IN THE WRITINGS OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIANS AND RUSSIAN LAWYERS Bespalko Victor Gennadievich, PhD at law, associate professor. <...> Place of employment: Law Enforcement Institute, the Russian Customs Academy. <...> E-mail: viktor_bespalko@mail.ru Annotation: This article analyzes the authoritative judgment of Christian theologians and representatives of Russian jurisprudence on issues of relationship norms of religion, morality and criminal law. <...> The significance of religious and moral justification of criminal prohibitions and sanctions. <...> The necessity of environment of religiousmoral-legal harmony as the efficiency of modern penal policy. <...> Literature list: Alekseev S.S. Law – institutional social education // Questions of the theory of the state and law. <...> Dobroselsky P.V. On the origin of man, original sin, and for the artificial-ЛТrЭС. <...> The history of interpretation of the Old Testament. <...> M.: Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, 2008. <...> Introduction to the Holy Scriptures of the Old Testament: a course of lectures. <...> The Holy Scriptures of the Old Testament studies. benefits. <...> Issue 1: Introduction to the study of the Holy Scriptures of the Old Testament. <...> What is the spiritual life and СШа ЭШ ЭЮЧО ТЭ? <...> Sorokin V.V. Conscience as an element of Russian OrЭСШНШб УЮsЭТМО // SЭКЭО КЧН ХКа. 2011. № 6. <...> Interpretation of the Old Testament // URL: http://www.biblicalstudies.ru/filon.html Tagantsev N.S. Russian criminal law: lectures. <...> Ter-Akopov A.A., Tolkachenko A.A. Biblical commandment of Christianity as metapravo-time legal systems // RЮssТКЧ УЮsЭТМО. 2002. № 6. <...> The Christian doctrine of crime and punishment / scientific editing K.V. HarКЛОЭ, A.A. TШХФКМСОЧФШ. <...>