Today, reply is on how sacred law that is to manifest divine authority, power, and displeasure is not inflexible, oppressive, and rigid, for divine law is mediated and softened through multiple aspects of divinity. Included are faith, gratitude, humility, mercy, personhood, respect, righteousness, trust, and wisdom. To address every detail of Creation establishing oneness without sameness the law must be comprehensive, diffuse, and spiritual. There can be neither justice nor peace without the correction and guidance of godly law. Where divine law may be thought of as fixed and immutable, the divine fullness yet should be understood as fluid, capable of spontaneity, manifesting faithfulness, and relying on diversity rather than change. The fighter at “Yahoo! Answers (UK & Ireland)” using the ID “Bruce” (Level 7 with 111,029 points, a member since August 12, 2007) posted the following:
Is God a comforting fantasy, or is he a jealous, vindictive bully? Aren't these contradictory accusations?
If God is demanding and willing to send his enemies to hell, he is hardly the wish-fulfilling sugar daddy envisioned by Freudians. Dawkins's diatribe at least recognizes God is someone to be feared, as Jesus taught. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/23651-t...
THE GOLDEN ARROW: I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. (Psalms 119: 75, King James Version, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: Opposing The Divine Will (03/30/2018); Sacred Law and Practice (02/12/2018); The Option of Atheism (02/11/2018); Jesus Came To Fulfill? (01/16/2018); Thoughts On Divine Personhood (12/07/2017); Jesus Demonstrated Perfected Humanity (10/29/2017); Balance, Forgiveness and Justice (08/08/2017); A GOD of Judgment (12/01/2015)
“Bruce”, among most mature Christian believers divinity is not experienced as a bully, a tormenter, or a tyrant. The gentleness, goodness, and lovingkindness of GOD is real. Those who attack GOD as being cruel, harsh, and unfeeling usually do so expressing disbelief, ignorance, or spiritual confusion. Perhaps, the true target for their complaints should be the divine law, for the law is holy, perfect and unyielding, and is designed to express wrath against sin. It is the personhood of Deity that puts forth the law, administers, and applies sacred law. Therefore, divine judgment also includes inseparable aspects of divinity such as forbearance, forgiveness, longsuffering, mercy, and righteousness.
The demands of divine law are correctly discerned and recognized as challenging, exacting, and rigorous. Because the law is impartial, the law may appear to be indifferent and unresponsive to aspects of the living that make one prone to error and vulnerable. Included are desire, feelings, ignorance, imagination, lust, and uncertainty. Sacred law makes known and reveals the sovereign will of divine fullness (we say, the GODhead; the Trinity; the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit). Law imparts sacred knowledge to created beings and living creatures that pertains to the character and nature of the active presence who is GOD, their eternal purposes as well as their continuing operations and process. The law describes and proclaims patterns and requirements for maintaining balance, completeness, communication, and stability within covenant, familial, and promissory relationships with GOD.
GOD is not in conflict with divine law, yet, through the operations of sin mankind is. Sin opposes the continued existence of divine law, the Lawgiver, and divine order throughout the universe. Without divine law, and fresh endowments of imparted, indwelling Spirit from divinity, the living fail to correctly grasp that sin is contrary to their own existence and survival. Sin may not be eliminated or removed by relying on finite tools of intellect, logic, philosophy, carnal reason, science, and self-will (will power). Consider again the following that uses language from the Bible:
(1.) Leviticus 19: 1-3, King James Version (KJV): 1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy. 3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
(2.) Leviticus 20: 6-8, KJV: 6 And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people. 7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God. 8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.
(3.) Psalms 101: 1-8, KJV: 1 I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing. 2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. 3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me. 4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person. 5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer. 6 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me. 7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight. 8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.
There is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually apprehended. (For example, (4.) 2nd Timothy 3: 16-17, KJV: 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
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