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.

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?

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?

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.

"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?