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“Adapt or die” is a real thing…
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Law vs Command
The physical law of gravity is an inescapable reality: it operates independently and universally. The advice “thou shalt not jump from the top of tall buildings” suggests optional behaviour.
Advice is not law, but a consequence of it. An adaptation.
Similarly, the Ten Commandments are not Laws of Creation, but consequences thereof.
God’s Laws are inescapable realities, not optional behaviour or commands.
They are the why of the Ten Commandments (ref. “Will vs Love: A Divine Quantum Entanglement“), and also the why of the laws of science. They define the structure and operations of Creation.
We can think about God’s Laws as the manifestation of God’s Power. Since His Power does not work randomly, but in a consistent and unchangeable way, we use the word “Law“.
For now, we can use the terms God’s Power, God’s Laws, Divine Laws, Laws of Creation, and God’s Will interchangeably.
How The Laws Are Revealed
No man knoweth the Son,
— KJV, Matt 11:27
but the Father;
neither knoweth any man the Father,
save the Son,
and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him
When we speak of “encounters” with God we mean encounters with His Power. This Living Power is omnipresent, just like the law of gravity is universal in the material world.
Spiritual ignorance causes us to misuse that element of His Power that we have access to, which results in self-harm, in the same way that the power of a car will bring harm to a reckless driver.
We ignored or misinterpreted various prophets who had been sent to educate us. In an Act of Love, Christ brought the revelation of God’s Laws in The Word to arrest the situation. The result is described in the Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen.
Living according to The Word (i.e. not merely reading It) reveals the knowledge of God and His Laws (ref. “Act To Experience To Know“):
He that hath my commandments,
John 14:21
and keepeth them,
he it is that loveth me:
and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father,
and I will love him,
and will manifest myself to him.
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Our behaviour determines whether we will be helped or harmed by His Laws.
“Help” and “harm” do not coincide with our materialistic definitions, because the Laws are oriented towards our eternal welfare (ref. “We Don’t Understand Love“) and not what we define as comfort.
The Laws are Loving
The Divine Laws work automatically, consistently, and unchangeably, with infinite awareness, love, and wisdom. They are not robotic like a computer program or dead like human laws.
They contain all that we think of as eternally “good”: love, beauty, harmony, peace, etc.
We interact with God through His Laws, and the knowledge of how to interact successfully is gained by living The Word.
Perfection vs Limitation
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets:
— Matt 5:17-18
I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
For verily I say unto you,
Till heaven and earth pass,
one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law,
till all be fulfilled.
God’s Laws are perfect. Therefore God never acts contrary to His Laws or changes His mind, since His Will is perfect (ref. “Is His Love Blind?“). That which He already established is as Perfect as Him.
Some interpret this as God “cannot do” anything He “wants to do“. This indicates anthropomorphic thinking (ref. “God Is Neither Superman Nor Santa“).
An expert marksman “cannot” shoot himself; not because of “limitations” but because the action makes no sense.
Human understanding of God’s Will changes and evolves, but not the Will Itself.
We experience God’s Power every moment, because His Laws govern all visible and invisible phenomena. If we wish to be helped by Them, we must become students of Them.
The course of study is the experiencing of The Word (ref. “Act To Experience To Know“).
Today’s Resolution
- We shall give thanks to God for sending us The Word, through which he extends the understanding of His Power to us.
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