Pure Law

[Digging4Truth]

I must say I can say with increasing ease... I hate law.

I don't use that word about many things but I do, indeed, hate law.

Law kills.
Law destroys.
Law has no mercy.
Law never brings life.
Law only brings death.

I have been dealing with the school around here and all they know is that crazy handbook.

Well behaved kids who do well on their grades spend days and days in ISS over a 99.2% success rate of being on time to their classes. 3 tardies over 360 classes. (I know those of you involved in a previous thread on this subject are aware of all of this)

But I am ranting because we have been dealing with law again and all law does is bring out anger. To tell you the truth... law brings out rebellion. It doesn't cure it.

I am about as easy to get along with as anyone you will ever meet. Making me adngry is a hard task indeed but nothing brings it out of me like blind, relentless, justice-less law.

I
Hate
Law.

Law without mercy is among the most destructive powers on this earth.

It kills peoples spirits.
It kills initiative.
It kills drive.
It kills hope.
It kills a desire to change.
It kills everything good in a human being.

I
Hate
Law.

In the past when I have read in the word where it said "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh" I always saw where the pure law is always manipulated by man. If a man lives by the spirit then the law is not necessary because living by the spirit (of the law even) will cause one to fulfill the law but the law itself only drives people to circumvent the law.

But, today, I see another thing as well.

Those who are in power and love law will always, given time, use that law to brow beat people.

They will use that law to steal.
They will use that law to kill.
They will use that law to destroy.
They will use that law to fulfill the desire of their father... the devil.

I
Hate
Law

And I despise strongly those who use it in a manner that is not in keeping with the spirit and intent of that law.

I love God's law.... don't get me wrong. But I hate when law is ripped from the nature of the God who put it in our lives and used a pole to beat people with.

That might be at church.
That might be at school.
That might be by a cop.
That might be by a parent.

To all those who operate as unfeeling, unmerciful and hateful wielders of the law against your fellow man... May God reward you according to your works.

[Timmy]

So, should law be outlawed?

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by Timmy

So, should law be outlawed?

Law exercised without the necessary balance of mercy should be met with quick reaction by the people.

Law knows no mercy these days.

Law is about making sure you get yours... law isn't about bringing change. Law isn't about making a difference in your life.

Law is about appeasing the (largely Christian) masses who revel in nothing more than see you get yours.

Today law is written beyond the ability of mercy to intervene
Today the spirit of the law is missing because law has no spirit but these... hatred, malice, anger... recognize those?

Law outside the spirit does humanity much harm.

[mfblume]

Psalms 119:113 KJV SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by mfblume

Psalms 119:113 KJV SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.

Are you offering that scripture as a thought counter to what I have presented?

[mfblume]

Just messing with ya.

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by mfblume

Just messing with ya.

K... just checkin' with ya.

[Praxeas]

Im glad you hate law....the law is a school master to lead us to Christ. I thank God I am not bound by the law of carnal ordinances..to many to remember, to many to keep

[Kae]

It isn't the law that is evil. It is the men that administer the law. The men that we have had a say in putting in power and for so many years we haven't cared. Now that their rule has become unbearable we want a say. You can change it, we still have that power. Find out when your board elections are, who is up for reelection and get them out. Find a good man and help get him in place and support him once he is there. Complaining will get you no where, but action will get you where you want to go.

[Kae]

Psalm 119:165 Great peace have they that love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.