| Re: They that are Without the Law [message #330 is a reply to message #328] |
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Dragon
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There are many laws which have been given, and others which exist whether they are given or not. Once a law is understood, it cannot be taken away without a higher law taking its place.
For example, whether someone understands the laws of electricity or not, they are there. The first thing you teach a child about electricity is the danger which exists. If they play with it, they could get seriously hurt. So the parent makes a rule about not sticking things in the outlet. This is not a law, but it is a rule. Eventually the child grows enough to use the outlet properly to power devices. (S)He can be more useful around the house and find greater fulfillment through the use of electronic devices. The original rule is not gone, just better understood. The superior knowledge of how to properly use an outlet makes the original rule seem inappropriate. But that rule has been better defined to say 'Don't plug random pointy objects into the wall socket.' The child could not have been taught the rule in such explicit detail before.
Yet limitations still exist on the child's understanding of electricity. (S)He doesn't have enough knowledge yet to change out a light fixture, or restore power after a breaker is blown. Rules still limit the child's access to electricity. Eventually those rules will be better understood as well, and privileges expanded.
Let's say the child goes to college and studies freshman level Electricity and Magnetism. (S)He will learn the basic equations which govern electricity and many of the uses we have for it in our world. A couple years later they take Junior level Electromagnetism and learn the course they took as a Freshman was only valid in a specific set of circumstances. Senior year they will take Electrodynamics and their prior course in Electromagnetism becomes the rules when nothing is changing. Perhaps they go on to a graduate degree to learn about quantum electricity or stellar magnetism, or some other specialized field dealing with electricity and magnetism.
Even with all that knowledge, the rule against sticking random pointy objects into a wall socket still applies. Everything they have learned about electricity still applies. It's true that their world of knowledge on the subject has increased and they can solve much more difficult problems. They understand when certain laws are superseded by higher laws and when they are not. But the basic equations they learned freshman year are still applicable in the scope in which they were presented. And if they stick a pair of metal scissors into a live outlet, the same thing will happen as when they were 2. The laws still apply, they are just better understood and occasionally overshadowed by higher laws.
Even God is subject to laws. Despite having achieved exaltation, He follows the laws and principles which He teaches to those who will listen. He has not caused the laws to pass away, He still follows them. As we all must follow those laws which govern the sphere in which we exist or suffer the consequences of violating those laws.
- Dragon
- Dragon
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