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SIN, DEATH AND BEYOND: M.M.NINAN<br />
advised was, you have the freedom to choose, apply it. In accepting this choice, Adam was<br />
asserting that the st<strong>and</strong>ard for good <strong>and</strong> evil are determined by him <strong>and</strong> not by God. He was<br />
declaring his freedom from the laws <strong>and</strong> st<strong>and</strong>ards of the absoluteness of God. In that sense<br />
Adam was claiming to be God. When man makes the law <strong>and</strong> decides right <strong>and</strong> wrong, there<br />
will be pitfalls. The society will be safe when it is based on the laws of God, <strong>and</strong> the only thing<br />
that supersede the laws is God’s own spirit which interprets the laws. “The letter kill, it is the<br />
Spirit that gives life.” (2 Cor 3:6)<br />
In 2005 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of this Ten Comm<strong>and</strong>ments display at the Texas Capitol.<br />
Religious leaders join the president of Faith <strong>and</strong> Action as he unveils their depiction of the Ten Comm<strong>and</strong>ments again after<br />
v<strong>and</strong>als pulled it over, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, October 29, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)<br />
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