Some Practical Considerations
To restate The Natural Law:
You have the absolute, Divine Right to do whatever you want to do, as long as it does not interfere with anyone else's right to do what they want to do.
There are many human "institutions" that are valid because they have their basis solidly in The Natural Law:
 | Private property |
| The age of self determination, when children become adults |
| Binding contracts |
| Freedom of choice |
What types of things violate the Natural Law?
| Murder |
| Rape |
| Assault |
| Arson |
| Kidnapping |
| Theft |
| Fraud |
| Forgery (using a name that is not yours to use!) |
Simple, right? Right. Hopefully the only "revelation" here, if any, is how these crimes find their illegality in an immorality that is grounded in YHWH's Name.
But now comes the tricky part, for there is an entire collection of activities currently practiced by the human race which, in America at least, are illegal, though according the Natural Law they shouldn't be.
We are discussing the Social Order. That means interactions between humans, not within a person himself. In other words, we have written extensively about how an individual person can come closer to God.
But that is not our point here, and that is not a proper basis of social interaction, nor a basis for civil government.
Like prostitution. I am not talking about the morality of it. That is not the point here. But as a voluntary, non-coercive contract between 2 people, it does not violate the Natural Law, and therefore should not be illegal. In fact, there has been endless research done proving that the very illegality of it creates an atmosphere which leads to the very abuses the law tries to protect.
And I know I've probably lost many of you here. But the truth is that 1) the illegality of prostitution cannot be justified through application of the Natural, and 2) Societies where it is decriminalized have much lower rates of rape and child abuse than in the U.S. Sorry, but that is the truth.
And at this point we will "leave the rest of the exercise to the reader." You either understand and resonate with this notion of applying The Natural Law absolutely as the basis of human civil law, or you don't. Any further "examples" would be superfluous if you agree, and quite inflammatory if you don't.
The key point here is, should you be willing to accept The Natural Law as the basis for civil government, it can quite logically and consistently be applied to your understanding of our world.
Obviously neither America nor any other part of this civilization we are familiar with accepts it, and we are under no delusion that anything will change any time in the foreseeable future. But that does not negate its truth or value.
Is The Natural Law sufficient? Would that be enough? No. Of course not. Prostitution would still exist, and in YHWH's Kingdom it will not. But 2 wrongs do not make a right, and making an immoral act illegal simply because it makes some of us uncomfortable is no basis for a system of government.
But once you start down that road, wherein our personal morality is forced upon other people, it becomes quite easy to start the Crusades again. Or the Holocaust.
We can and must (eventually) begin to do better than that. And re-creating our governments on the shoulders of an absolute application of The Natural Law is the first step.
Next....Taxation is theft.
