Does the application of the law ever really teach anyone anything valuable or does it just complicate the mess we find ourselves in? What do you do when you see someone using law and accompanying punishment on some else in order to teach them a lesson when the one doing the punishing is guilty of the same offenses or similar things or maybe even worse? If we want to be people of the law doesn't the law in order to work as the law was intended to be practiced (fairly) have to be applied to everyone equally? How often do you see the law applied equally? How often do you see an accuser, someone who has been wronged and is now seeking to see the offender punished or held accountable, step back and say..."Let's start all over because as I was looking to hold you accountable for your offense my offenses just past before my eyes"?
Is this paradigm ever workable without it making us hypocrites and at the same time just complicating the existing problem?
If it is the higher law of LOVE that is guiding us, how can law be a part of that? Love by nature violates no one....when law seems to by nature make us violators.
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Hey Kent,
Was wondering what inspired this post? :) Is there a bit of background that got you thinking along these lines. I would like to process it further but need to know from what angle it is coming from?
Zion, that is too big a question to answer. But here goes........It's been 46 years in the making. 42 attempting to live under the law....10 commandments and the gazillion others that have been added to it and trusting in the law of the land. Let's just say I've come to see them for what they are and that happened once all the effort (which was all about an attempt to control...everything and everyone)had led me to a place of exhaustion and frustration because I couldn't control the things and people I was trying to control through the use of law in it's many manifestations.
I gave up the game/illusion and turned to God for the first time as if I really believed it and found a father a brother and a helper that had been here all along just waiting for me to give up the game/illusion. When that happened I began to see love for what love is and it began to change things...actually change me from the inside...head and heart and the more that happens the more law is seen for the absurdity that it is. Law never helps us live together and it is always standing in the way. Love moves us back into the realm of relations and in that space no law is of any benefit at all for anything.
I can certainly appreciate where you are coming from. I think I forget sometimes how restrictive IC laws are. I can remember being frowned at once for talking about *secular* music. I wasn't aware that this music was apparently evil (lol)and took the comment quite seriously and didn't listen to the radio for a number of years.
Concepts of freedom have been an important theme through out my whole adult life.. and because of this, I think I expect nothing of anyone else. Of particular interest to me are these two scriptures
Matthew 16:19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
Luke 11:52 “Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”
Shivana :)
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