The Law

It is thought about some early cultures that often it was the most powerful, and sometimes the most ruthless, who ruled. It makes sense; when men vied for power over family tribes and the greatest hunters or the strongest survived, fear and violence kept people in line, and the leaders held onto their posts with an iron hand. Eventually laws were developed by the likes of Hammurabi to limit and control bad behavior and bring forms of mercy and justice to society. This law was supposed to be above the power of the leader; even he was supposed to abide by it. Unless, of course, he didn’t.... more power and force. Still happens today. Manmade laws do not always win the respect of other men. Men can argue ad infinitum on one point or another, justifying any dictum. The wonderful beautiful idea/ideal of Judaism for the world was that the law was no longer negotiable, nor was it able to be changed, because it didn’t come from man: It came from outside himself, it came from above. THE ALIEN GOD SPOKE THE LAW. The Ten Commandments are to this day as viable as they were three thousand years ago. This law was for everyone, and made every man equal under it. No despot, no king, so tax collector was above it, nor could a person manipulate it. It was the ideal, the perfect, the unattainable, it was everything God hoped mankind would strive for, and receive from Him. Christians believe Jesus perfectly fulfilled this law, and so was the type of the perfect lamb of the Jews, slain for our sins. God fulfilled the law, coming to us from outside time, into our time, into our world, to be the means through His Son by which we attain perfection, through His blood.