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Re: Lesson #6 (1st Quarter 2012): God the Lawgiver
[Re: Daryl]
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02/05/12 02:41 AM
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I like what is stated in the Sabbath Afternoon section: As Seventh-day Adventists, we often hear the idea that the law is a transcript of God’s character. (If so, then because God doesn’t change, the law—which reveals His character—shouldn’t change either.) What, though, does that mean, this idea that the law is an expression of God’s character? Suppose you lived in a land with a king whose word was law. (“The state, that’s me” one French king famously said.) Now, suppose the king issued laws that were repressive, nasty, hateful, unfair, discriminatory, and so forth. Would not those laws be a good representation of the kind of person the king was; would they not reveal his character?
Think through some of history’s worst despots. How did the laws they passed reveal what kind of people they were?
In this sense, the law reveals the character of the lawgiver. What, then, does God’s law reveal about God? When we understand God’s law as a hedge, a protection, something created for us, for our own good, then we come to understand more about what God is like.
This week we’ll take a look at the law and, by default, the Lawgiver.
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Re: Lesson #6 (1st Quarter 2012): God the Lawgiver
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02/06/12 06:59 PM
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What this is essentially saying is, The law is good; therefore, God is good. Shouldn't it be the other way around? God is good; therefore, the law is good. WDYT? It is surely the case that God is good, and therefore makes good laws. God is the cause, His law is the effect. However, I don't think the lesson contradicts that. I don't see it arguing that the law causes God to be good. Rather, it is saying that the law gives us insight into the character of the lawmaker. That is certainly true also.
By God's grace, Arnold
There is no excuse for any one in taking the position that there is no more truth to be revealed, and that all our expositions of Scripture are without an error. The fact that certain doctrines have been held as truth for many years by our people, is not a proof that our ideas are infallible. Age will not make error into truth, and truth can afford to be fair. No true doctrine will lose anything by close investigation. RH 12/20/1892
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Re: Lesson #6 (1st Quarter 2012): God the Lawgiver
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02/07/12 05:12 PM
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Rather, it is saying that the law gives us insight into the character of the lawmaker. That is certainly true also. Yes, this is true for us, but not for a large part of the professed Christian church. To them, the law is bad, faulty, imperfect. They don't see that if such is the case, the same is true about the Lawmaker. Sad but true. They see God's law as something that is "against" us, impeding our quest for happiness. They do not see it as a hedge to protect us from pain and suffering.
By God's grace, Arnold
There is no excuse for any one in taking the position that there is no more truth to be revealed, and that all our expositions of Scripture are without an error. The fact that certain doctrines have been held as truth for many years by our people, is not a proof that our ideas are infallible. Age will not make error into truth, and truth can afford to be fair. No true doctrine will lose anything by close investigation. RH 12/20/1892
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Re: Lesson #6 (1st Quarter 2012): God the Lawgiver
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"That the obligations of the Decalogue might be more fully understood and enforced, additional precepts were given, illustrating and applying the principles of the Ten Commandments." {PP 310} Since the Law of Moses reflects the Law of God it gives us a microscopic look into the Ten Commandments. Is this what many Christians find objectionable about the Law of God? I don't know if many object to the statutes, since few are interested in studying them. I think what they find objectionable is that the 10C, along with the statutes, forbid selfishness in all its forms.
By God's grace, Arnold
There is no excuse for any one in taking the position that there is no more truth to be revealed, and that all our expositions of Scripture are without an error. The fact that certain doctrines have been held as truth for many years by our people, is not a proof that our ideas are infallible. Age will not make error into truth, and truth can afford to be fair. No true doctrine will lose anything by close investigation. RH 12/20/1892
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