Individual Interpretation of Laws

NO, legal standards are not limited to the determination and the interpretation of the individual. This is a very secular humanist idea, implying that there is no higher code of morals or laws that we must subscribe to, and that each man is on his own to determine how he lives his life. However, we are not independent beings. We rely on others for our well-being, emotionally, physically, mentally, in every way. On a personal, relational level, on a social level, on a national level, even in the simple sense that all mankind shares a bond based off of the fact that we all share our humanity. WE cannot live alone, and this idea of self-dependence and the choice of doing whatever anyone may feel is right or what they want to do completely isolates human beings. We become little islands of our own moralities, our own rights and wrongs, and our own truths, and slowly drift away from all other people, all on their own little islands. Even postmodernists, who believe that there are no absolute truths, believe that we are responsible to the communities which we live in and must allow ourselves to be influenced by them. From a Christian perspective, we certainly do not have the power and right to determine legal and moral standards on our own. We are bound to those standards that God has laid out for us in the Bible, and the moral code that is innate in all human beings. Furthermore, if each person felt unbound by moral and legal codes, chaos would ensue. We are not perfect beings, and we need to be held responsible by something other than ourselves.