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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Wide Eyed in Wonder" |
| Date: |
07 Mar 2006 08:26:44 AM |
| Object: |
What Law Should a Judge Use? |
Should a Texas state court judge use Florida law to make decisions (and
not use Texas law)?
Should France use USA law (and not French law) to make it's decisions?
Would it be acceptible for any judge to ignore the law of their own
land and own government and use, in its place, a foreign law to make
decisions?
No?
Then, what makes anyone think that God is going to bypass His own law
to judge us by our own standards and view of ourselves?
All criminals think they are good in their own eyes. It doesn't make
it so. The courts of every land on earth determine a law breaker by
whether one broke their law, not whether the lawbreaker thought they
should be justified. Whether the criminal thinks the law is just is
irrelevant to the judge, whose law it is to enforce the law.
If we determine a criminal by the standard of the lawmaker (not the
lawbreaker), why should we expect God, as Judge, to ignore His own law
about us?
Kenny Clifton
-author of the Red Letter Stories
http://www.christianjedi.com/redletterstories.html
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| User: "Anno Domini" |
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| Title: Re: What Law Should a Judge Use? |
09 Mar 2006 08:46:40 PM |
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Wide Eyed in Wonder wrote:
Should a Texas state court judge use Florida law to make decisions (and
not use Texas law)?
Should France use USA law (and not French law) to make it's decisions?
Would it be acceptible for any judge to ignore the law of their own
land and own government and use, in its place, a foreign law to make
decisions?
No?
Then, what makes anyone think that God is going to bypass His own law
to judge us by our own standards and view of ourselves?
All criminals think they are good in their own eyes. It doesn't make
it so. The courts of every land on earth determine a law breaker by
whether one broke their law, not whether the lawbreaker thought they
should be justified. Whether the criminal thinks the law is just is
irrelevant to the judge, whose law it is to enforce the law.
If we determine a criminal by the standard of the lawmaker (not the
lawbreaker), why should we expect God, as Judge, to ignore His own law
about us?
Kenny Clifton
-author of the Red Letter Stories
http://www.christianjedi.com/redletterstories.html
Excellent subject Ken. Most readers here will not appreciate the
complexity of your question.
For example, my view is that there are only two aspects of Law to
consider:
1) the laws of life
and
2) the laws of death
Governmental laws are an aside which are indeed useful, but somewhat
distracting when one is trying to wrap his brain around LAW and it's
spiritual aspects.
Here (as always) the Bible clearly and simply introduces the two
aforementioned LAWS:
"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free
from the law of sin and death." (Romans 8:2)
Now for the readers out there, the first thing for them to accomplish
is to not let there thoughts drift off into the abiss of "natural law"
or even governmental law (mainly since life and death are undeniably
spiritual matters as afirmed by the Bible).
Next the readers need to know that the Bible itself declares that man,
being incapable of physically following God himself's law (as given to
the Hebrews), indeed has the capacity to follow it spiritually (which
is a way which God accepts)...
"For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh,
God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin,
condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be
fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."
(Romans 8:3-4)
So to answer your question directly, once one accepts Jesus Christ as
his saviour, God ignores the laws of "sin and death" on that persons
life.
And actually, that is a very problematic proposition for the mind of
man (who requires justice in all cases) to comprehend.
Nevertheless that's what we're here for... i.e. to tackle hard
questions and trough touchdown passes on 4th down.
Good and thought provoking post,
Jd A.D. 2006
"Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi ("In the Year of Our Lord Jesus
Christ"), commonly shortened to Anno Domini ("In the Year of the
Lord"), abbreviated as AD or A.D., is the designation used to number
years in the Christian Era, conventionally used with the Julian and
Gregorian calendars. It defines an epoch based on the
traditionally-reckoned year of the birth of Jesus."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini
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