 THE VERY FACT OF LAW PRESUPPOSES government. GOVERNMENT IS THE ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF LAW BY ONE IN AUTHORITY. THIS NECESSITATES AUTHORITATIVE leadership....one in command.
Thus, even when the only conscious Life-Beings were God and the Word, there was GOVERNMENT, with God in supreme command. The government of God is of necessity government from the top down. It cannot be "government by the consent of the governed". Its laws originate and are handed down from God--never legislated by the people--never dictated by the governed how the government over them shall rule them. Since they created other conscious, thinking life-beings, this very fact of necessity put the GOVERNMENT of God over all creation, with God supreme Ruler.
Our human civilization has assumed the prerogative of lawmaking. Human governments, whether city, county,state or national, have lawmaking bodies--city councils, state legislatures, national congress, Parliament, Reichstag. Diet or Knesset. But 6,000 years of human experience have demonstrated the utter incapability of humans to decide right from wrong, or to formulate laws for human conduct and relationships.
Human lawmaking bodies have made so many laws that the average policeman in a city could not possibly keep in his mind a fraction of the laws who's violations he is supposed to act upon. Some may remember a comic strip in American newspapers. "There out to be a law". The comic strip was poking fun at the very idea that human lawmakers have made so many laws, and yet fail to cover every possible infraction.
God's law is spiritual and can be summed up in one simple but all-inclusive word--love. His law for the guidance of human conduct is subdivided into the two great commandments,love toward God and love toward neighbor. This, in turn are subdivided into the 10 commandments. Jesus magnified this law by showing how its principle expands to cover virtually every possible human infraction. The third chapter of 11 Corinthians shows that God's law is to be applied in principle. It is summed up in one single word,love. Nevertheless, it is so perfect that,by applying its princicple,it is a complete law. There is only one perfect lawmaker, and that is God.
Bear in mind the government of God is based on the LAW of God, which is the way of life of outflowing L0VE, cooperation, concern for the good of the governed. And this law of God produces peace, happiness, cooperation through obedience.
Ref: from the book Mystery of the Ages by. Herbert W.Amrstrong.
Ps. As we can see from history..no government has been able to bring peace, happiness because humans continuously break the laws and new laws have to be made and old ones amended. There are so many laws that there is a law that the ignorance of a law is no excuse!!!
How can anyone know about all the laws when we don't receive any written books on what law is in vigor. The only laws we know are the ones we see written on panels.
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