Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Law--where does it come from?
While, logically, governments are the ultimate authority for creating laws, this is a loaded question. The laws laid out by our governments, such as tax laws, driving laws, labor laws, etcetera, are the governments teritory, and rightly so. Without a goverment that is prepared to and does make laws for the citizens in their territory, all hell would break loose. Ideally, a society could survive without laws, and everyone would live in harmony-a utopia. However, we as humans are innately sinful and could not possibly support the moral infrastructure necessary for such a utopia to survive. (Sidenote: this is why communism is impossible, foolishly idealistic, and entirely corruptible.) So, we rely on government to provide day-to-day peace and unity in our society through laws. However, where this question gets debatable is when we expand the idea of laws to include moral laws. I personally believe, as a christian, that we are all held to a higher moral law, laid out in the Bible. The Bible itself even states that we are not to obey government when it tells us to do something that goes against what the Bible has instructed us to do. Thus, the government should not be considered the highest form of lawgiver--that trait is God's and God's alone. While there is absolutely nothing wrong with governments providing laws to keep order in society, we must adhere to the laws given by the highest being in our entire universe, world, everything-the Lord God.
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