ZOBOLI
Re: Humanists Believe There is no Soul
Mon Oct 20 20:19:30 2003
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From His Lawful Assembly:

Human Laws
What should a follower of Christ think about human laws? It is irrelevant, because we look to the one lawgiver for answers (Isaiah 33:22). There is only ONE lawgiver (James 4:12). As long as we obey God's Law, human laws have nothing to do with the servants of Christ (1 Timothy 1:9-10). If God is writing his Law in our inward parts (Jeremiah 31:33), then the law that is written in codes, rules, and regulations have nothing to do with God. Jesus and the apostles answered questions with, "It is written," and, "Have ye not read," and the apostles also answered with, "The Scripture saith," ignoring the laws, ordinances, commands, and views of man. Jesus did not use man's codes, rules, and regulations for the things he did, and neither should we use man's codes, rules, and regulations for the things that we do.


If you read the laws of man, you will notice that all the words used in their laws are consistently outside Scripture. For example, a statute might read, "Persons have rights to lease property." But you won't find the word 'property,' 'lease,' or "rights" in scripture. You won't even find the word 'persons' in scripture as the natural man uses that term. All these words are outside Scripture, so it's a new kingdom outside of God's kingdom. There's a distinction between man-made laws and God-given laws.


Human Laws: "Laws which have man for their author, as distinguished from divine laws, which have God as their author." Borden v. State, 11 Ark. 519, 54 Am. Dec. 217, 220. Law Dictionary with Pronunciations, by James A. Ballentine, 1948 Edition. Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, Rochester, New York.

The office of the Christ denotes a ministerial act of execution; doing, acting, carrying into effect, or "fulfilling the law." If you are under grace and not under God's Law, what office do you occupy, and whose Will do you execute? Because all offices are under the law that created them. And if you're not under God's law, what office do you fill? All offices are in law, and the Will is the Testament establishing the office.

Isaiah 8:16,20, "Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them."

This is the yardstick by which the followers of Christ judge all law. Any purported law which has not this purpose is a lie and is no law at all. It falls short of the standards set by God. Even the laws of man agree with this Truth:
"Any law contrary to the Law of God, is no law at all." Sir William Blackstone.

"God alone is the lawgiver of eternity". Judge Henry Clay, Crimes of the Civil War, 1868, pages 428-432.

"The law is from everlasting." Bouviers Law Dictionary, 1914, 'Maxim', page 2143. (Psalm 90:2; 93:2; 145:13).


Yes, this is in harmony with the Sacred Scriptures, which declare:


Acts 5:29, "Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men."

Isaiah 33:22, "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us."

James 4:12, "There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?"

Jeremiah 17:5, "Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man."

Psalms 118:8-9, "It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes [governments of men]."

Psalms 146:3, "Put not your trust in princes [governments of men]."

Ecclesiastes 12:13, "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God [not man], and keep his commandments [not man's commandments]: for this is the whole duty of man."