horrendously immoral. <strong>In</strong> most cases the German legislature passed a special law to allow Hitler to do what he wanted to do. <strong>In</strong> others, the Courts reinterpreted the law for Hitler’s agenda according to the “people’s” mood. Many communist countries claimed to be republics too, yet most fell apart in less than <strong>40</strong> years; because in addition to their unfixed moral law, their economic systems were un-maintainable. So, what is the primary difference between the U.S. and Nazi Germany or Rome? As indicated in the Declaration of <strong>In</strong>dependence, the founding fathers intended our fixed primarily moral law to be what? …It was to be the unchanging “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” 60 The Laws of Nature and [the Laws] of Nature’s God: What are these laws? How did we get them? To the founding fathers and all Christians these laws come from God. But our knowledge of the laws can come from three sources. 1. The Revealed Laws: To protect us from pain (and show us the path to Salvation), God supernaturally revealed many of the laws through the Bible. We believe these revealed laws are far superior and fuller than the next two sources. 2. The Conscience Laws: Other laws are written in our conscience. We all have them, though over time we can learn to harden our hearts to some of them. We also refer to these laws as the Self-Evident Laws. See Romans 2:14-15. 61 3. The Moral Laws of Nature, the Discovered Laws: The third set of laws, are laws that we can logically derive just from nature. And if you think about that, it makes sense. After all, if God exists, He would have created an orderly universe based on a system of laws, laws that we believe are part of His very Character. If we study Creation we’ll learn how it works. Just like the natural laws of physics. Let’s look at that last set, the Discovered Laws (or the Discoverable Laws). As mentioned, in this last group, are the laws that even if we didn’t learn them from God, we could eventually figure them out by rational thought. Even before Christ, men like Cicero (a contemporary of Julius Caesar), figured out that there was a Natural Law and it was ordained by the Supreme God or gods (Cicero just didn’t know which God that was). Cicero realized that if you keep evaluating what prevented pain and worked and what caused pain and thus didn’t work, you’d eventually be able to come up with an objective rational system of moral laws. They wouldn’t be complete, but they could each be valid. As we’ll see in the chapter titled “Why The Law Was Given: <strong>In</strong>troduction,” moral laws are what keep us safe, they are the instructions for reducing pain. These Discoverable Laws were also called “The Natural Law.” Obeying the Natural Law would allow any civilization to advance rapidly, be the most productive and reduce the causes of pain and suffering. When we violate these 60 <strong>In</strong> case someone tries to claim that “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” is a deistic term, I recommend you refer them to “Defending the Declaration: How the Bible and Christianity <strong>In</strong>fluenced the Writing of the Declaration of <strong>In</strong>dependence,” Gary T. Amos, Providence Foundation (1996). This excellent book decimates any such ridiculous notion showing about 4 centuries of Christian and Calvinistic use of those terms. 61 Romans 2: 14 <strong>In</strong>deed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, 15 since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them. Page | 34 Neil Mammen
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