In the
beginning I find a rock. I like my rock. I keep my rock.
You come along
and take my rock away from me and won’t give it back.
I don’t like
that you took my rock but you are bigger and stronger than me so I look for
some mystical power that can equal the score.
I create GOD…
In monotheism
and henotheism, God is conceived of as the Supreme Being and principal object
of faith.
The concept of
God as described by theologians commonly includes the attributes of omniscience
(infinite knowledge), omnipotence (unlimited power), omnipresence (present
everywhere), Omni benevolence (perfect goodness), divine simplicity, and
eternal and necessary existence.
God is also
usually defined as a non-corporeal being without any human biological gender,
but the concept of God actively (as opposed to receptively) creating the
universe has caused some religions to give “Him” the metaphorical name of
“Father”.
Because God is
conceived as being invisible from direct sight and not being a corporeal being,
God cannot be portrayed in a literal visual image; some religious groups use a
man (sometimes old and bearded) to signify or symbolize God or his presence
because of “His deed of creating man’s mind in the image of His own”.
And God gave us…
The 10 Commandants
1.
I am the LORD thy God
2.
No other gods before me
3.
No graven images or likenesses
4.
Not take the LORD(s) name in vain
5.
Remember the sabbath day
6.
Honour thy father and thy mother
7.
Thou shalt not kill
8.
Thou shalt not commit adultery
9.
Thou shalt not steal
10.Thou shalt not bear false
witness
11.Thou shalt not covet
So I decided to make
these into Laws…
The history of
law links closely to the development of civilization. Ancient Egyptian law,
dating as far back as 3000 BC, contained a civil code that was probably
broken into twelve books. It was based on the concept of Ma’at, characterized
by tradition, rhetorical speech, social equality and impartiality. By the 22nd
century BC, the ancient Sumerian ruler Ur-Nammu had formulated the first
law code, which consisted of casuistic statements (“if … then ...”).
Law is a system of rules that are
created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate
behavior. State-enforced laws can be made by a collective legislature or by a
single legislator, resulting in statutes, by the executive through decrees and
regulations, or established by judges through precedent, normally in common law
jurisdictions. Private individuals can create legally binding contracts,
including arbitration agreements that may elect to accept alternative
arbitration to the normal court process. The formation of laws themselves may
be influenced by a constitution, written or tacit, and the rights encoded
therein. The law shapes politics, economics, history and society in various
ways and serves as a mediator of relations between people.
A general
distinction can be made between (a) civil law jurisdictions (including Catholic
canon law and socialist law), in which the legislature or other central body
codifies and consolidates their laws, and (b) common law systems, where
judge-made precedent is accepted as binding law. Historically, religious laws
played a significant role even in settling of secular matters, which is still
the case in some religious communities, particularly Jewish, and some
countries, particularly Islamic. Islamic Sharia law is the world's most widely
used religious law.
The
adjudication of the law is generally divided into two main areas referred to as
(i) Criminal law and (ii) Civil law. Criminal law deals with conduct that is
considered harmful to social order and in which the guilty party may be
imprisoned or fined. Civil law (not to be confused with civil law jurisdictions
above) deals with the resolution of lawsuits (disputes) between individuals or
organizations.
Law provides a
rich source of scholarly inquiry into legal history, philosophy, economic analysis
and sociology. Law also raises important and complex issues concerning
equality, fairness, and justice. There is an old saying that ‘all are equal
before the law’, although Jonathan Swift argued that ‘Laws are like cobwebs,
which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.’ In 1894,
the author Anatole France said sarcastically, “In its majestic equality, the
law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets, and
steal loaves of bread.” Writing in 350 BC, the Greek philosopher Aristotle
declared, “The rule of law is better than the rule of any individual.” Mikhail
Bakunin said, “All law has for its object to confirm and exalt into a system
the exploitation of the workers by a ruling class”. Cicero said, “more law,
less justice”. Marxist doctrine asserts that law will not be required once the
state has withered away. Regardless of one’s view of the law, it remains today
a completely central institution.
The Third New
International Dictionary from Merriam-Webster defines law as: “Law is a binding
custom or practice of a community; a rule or mode of conduct or action that is
prescribed or formally recognized as binding by a supreme controlling authority
or is made obligatory by a sanction (as an edict, decree, prescript, order,
ordinance, statute, resolution, rule, judicial decision, or usage) made,
recognized, or enforced by the controlling authority.”
The Dictionary
of the History of Ideas published by Scribner's in 1973 defined the concept of
law accordingly as: “A legal system is the most explicit, institutionalized,
and complex mode of regulating human conduct. At the same time, it plays only
one part in the congeries of rules which influence behavior, for social and
moral rules of a less institutionalized kind are also of great importance.”
a. An
authoritative, prescribed direction for conduct, especially one of the
regulations governing procedure in a legislative body or a regulation observed
by the players in a game, sport, or contest.
b. The body of
regulations prescribed by the founder of a religious order for governing the
conduct of its members.
Law is a system of rules that are
enforced through social institutions to govern behavior. Laws can be made by a
collective legislature or by a single legislator, resulting in statutes, by the
executive through decrees and regulations, or by judges through binding
precedent, normally in common law jurisdictions. Private individuals can create
legally binding contracts, including arbitration agreements that may elect to
accept alternative arbitration to the normal court process. The formation of
laws themselves may be influenced by a constitution, written or tacit, and the
rights encoded therein. The law shapes politics, economics, history and society
in various ways and serves as a mediator of relations between people.
A general
distinction can be made between (a) civil law jurisdictions (including Catholic
canon law and socialist law), in which the legislature or other central body
codifies and consolidates their laws, and (b) common law systems, where
judge-made precedent is accepted as binding law. Historically, religious laws
played a significant role even in settling of secular matters, which is still
the case in some religious communities, particularly Jewish, and some
countries, particularly Islamic. Islamic Sharia law is the world’s most widely
used religious law.
The
adjudication of the law is generally divided into two main areas referred to as
(i) Criminal law and (ii) Civil law. Criminal law deals with conduct that is
considered harmful to social order and in which the guilty party may be
imprisoned or fined. Civil law (not to be confused with civil law jurisdictions
above) deals with the resolution of lawsuits (disputes) between individuals or
organizations. These resolutions seek to provide a legal remedy (often monetary
damages) to the winning litigant. Under civil law, the following specialties,
among others, exist: Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus ticket
to trading on derivatives markets. Property law regulates the transfer and
title of personal property and real property. Trust law applies to assets held
for investment and financial security. Tort law allows claims for compensation
if a person’s property is harmed. Constitutional law provides a framework for
the creation of law, the protection of human rights and the election of
political representatives. Administrative law governs what executive branch
agencies may and may not do, procedures that they must follow to do it, and
judicial review when a member of the public is harmed by an agency action.
International law governs affairs between sovereign states in activities
ranging from trade to military action. To implement and enforce the law and
provide services to the public-by-public servants, a government’s bureaucracy,
military, and police are vital. While all these organs of the state are
creatures created and bound by law, an independent legal profession and a
vibrant civil society inform and support their progress.
Law provides a rich source of scholarly
inquiry into legal history, philosophy, economic analysis and sociology. Law
also raises important and complex issues concerning equality, fairness, and
justice. There is an old saying that ‘all are equal before the law’, although Jonathan
Swift argued that ‘Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let
wasps and hornets break through.’ In 1894, the author Anatole France said
sarcastically, “In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike
to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets, and steal loaves of bread.” Writing
in 350 BC, the Greek philosopher Aristotle declared, “The rule of law is better
than the rule of any individual.” Mikhail Bakunin said: “All law has for its
object to confirm and exalt into a system the exploitation of the workers by a
ruling class”. Cicero said “more law, less justice”. Marxist doctrine asserts
that law will not be required once the state has withered away. Regardless of
one's view of the law, it remains today a completely central institution.
Then I created an assembly representative of the people to
write the laws of the land and a series of courts and judges and lawyers to
interpret them and hand down their judgments….
Regulation is an abstract concept of
management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends. In
systems theory, these types of rules exist in various fields of biology and
society, but the term has slightly different meanings according to context. For
example: in biology, gene regulation allows living organisms to adapt to their
environment and maintain homeostasis in government, typically a regulation
specifically means a piece of delegated legislation drafted by subject matter
experts to enforce a statutory instrument (primary legislation) in business,
industry self-regulation occurs through self-regulatory organizations and trade
associations which allow industries to set rules with less government
involvement in psychology, self-regulation theory is the study of how
individuals regulate their thoughts and behaviors to reach goals.
And the people were to follow these laws….
Comply (third-person singular simple
present complies, present participle complying, simple past and past participle
complied) To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self;
to consent or conform. Compliance is the act or process of complying to a
desire, demand, proposal, or regimen or to coercion.
But some of the people did not want to follow the Laws….
Rebellion is an act of violent or open
resistance to an established government or ruler. Insurgency; rioting, riot,
disorder, unrest, revolt, insurrection, mutiny, revolution, insurgence,
Rebellion is the action or process of
resisting authority, control, convention, defiance, disobedience, rebelliousness,
insubordination, subversion, or resistance.
Rebellion, uprising, or insurrection is
a refusal of obedience or order. It may, therefore, be seen as encompassing a
range of behaviors aimed at destroying or taking over the position of an established
authority such as a government, governor, president, political leader,
financial institution or boss. The methods can be peaceful, such as civil
disobedience, civil resistance and nonviolent resistance, or violent, such as
terrorism, sabotage and guerrilla warfare. Those who participate in rebellions,
especially if they are armed, are known as “rebels”.
For they claim the Laws unjust and not representative of the
people’s wishes….
Freedom the power or right to act,
speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. Freedom is the absence
of subjection to foreign domination or despotic government. Freedom is independence,
self-government, self-determination, self-rule, home rule, sovereignty,
nonalignment, autonomy, or democracy.
They wanted to be FREE from the regulations of the laws….
Political freedom (also known as a
political autonomy or political agency) is a central concept in history and
political thought and one of the most important features of democratic
societies.
It was described
as freedom from oppression or coercion, the absence of disabling conditions for
an individual and the fulfillment of enabling conditions, or the absence of
life conditions of compulsion, e.g. economic compulsion, in a society.
Although
political freedom is often interpreted negatively as the freedom from
unreasonable external constraints on action, it can also refer to the positive
exercise of rights, capacities and possibilities for action, and the exercise
of social or group rights. The concept can also include freedom from “internal”
constraints on political action or speech (e.g. social conformity, consistency,
or “inauthentic” behavior.) The concept of political freedom is closely
connected with the concepts of civil liberties and human rights.
Yet with total freedom and no laws comes…
Anarchy is a state of disorder due to
absence or non-recognition of authority, government, lawlessness, nihilism,
revolution, insurrection, disorder, chaos, mayhem or turmoil.
An absence of
government and absolute freedom of the individual, regarded as a political
ideal.
Anarchy is the condition of a society,
entity, group of people, or a single person that rejects hierarchy. It
originally meant ‘leaderlessness’, but in 1840, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon adopted the
term in his treatise ‘What Is Property?’ to refer to a new political
philosophy, anarchism, which advocates stateless societies based on voluntary
associations. In practical terms, anarchy can refer to the curtailment or
abolition of government.
But what they needed were our Laws to keep…
Liberty, in philosophy, involves free
will as contrasted with determinism. In politics, liberty consists of the
social and political freedoms to which all community members are entitled. In
theology, liberty is freedom from the bondage of sin.
Generally,
liberty is distinctly differentiated from freedom in that freedom is primarily,
if not exclusively, the ability to do as one wills and what one has the power
to do; whereas liberty concerns the absence of arbitrary restraints and takes
into account the rights of all involved. As such, the exercise of liberty is
subject to capability and limited by the rights of others.
And our Laws needed….
Regulation can take many forms: legal
restrictions promulgated by a government authority, contractual obligations
(for example, contracts between insurers and their insured’s), social
regulation (e.g. norms), co-regulation, third-party regulation, certification,
accreditation or market regulation.
State-mandated
regulation is government intervention in the private market in an attempt to
implement policy and produce outcomes that might not otherwise occur, ranging
from consumer protection to faster growth or technological advancement. The
regulations may prescribe or proscribe conduct (“command-and-control”
regulation), calibrate incentives (“incentive” regulation), or change
preferences (“preferences shaping” regulation). Common examples of regulation
include controls on market entries, prices, wages, development approvals, pollution
effects, employment for certain people in certain industries, standards of
production for certain goods, the military forces and services. The economics
of imposing or removing regulations relating to markets is analyzed in
regulatory economics.
And
our Laws needed….
Supervision is the action of
supervising someone or something. Supervision is administration, management,
control, or charge. Supervision is an act or instance of directing, managing,
or oversight.
And our Laws needed…
Enforcement is the act of compelling
observance of or compliance with a law, rule, or obligation.
Enforcement is the process of ensuring
compliance with laws, regulations, rules, standards, or social norms. By
enforcing laws and regulations, governments attempt to effectuate successful
implementation of policies
Enforcement serves a number of
functions; the enforcement of social norms can ensure conformity within insular
communities, the enforcements of laws can maximize social benefits and protect
the public interest, and enforcement may also serve the self-interest of the
institutions that oversee enforcement. Enforcement can be effectuated by both
public institutions and private, non-governmental actors. Enforcement is often
accomplished through coercive means or by utilizing power disparities to
constrain action.
Some scholars have
also argued that institutions enforce rules when deciding “when and how to
apply” laws and regulations.
So there we have it.
We have created Laws that must be obeyed for they are GOD(s)
commandants and to not follow the rule of law is a sin….
In a religious
context, sin is the act of violating God(s) will. Sin can also be viewed as any
thought or action that endangers the ideal relationship between an individual
and God; or as any diversion from the perceived ideal order for human living.
To sin has been defined as “to miss the mark”.
The word from
Old English may be related to that of Latin, ‘sont’ meaning guilty. In Old
English there are examples of the original general sense, ‘offence,
wrong-doing, misdeed’. The English Biblical terms translated as “sin” or “syn”
from the Biblical Greek and Jewish terms sometimes originate from words in the
latter languages denoting the act or state of missing the mark; the original
sense of New Testament “sin”, is failure, being in error, missing the mark,
especially in spear throwing; Hebrew hata “sin” originates in archery and
literally refer to missing the “gold” at the centre of a target, but hitting
the target, i.e. error. (Archers call not hitting the target at all a “miss”.)
To
break a Law is a Sin…
Blasphemy is the act of insulting or
showing contempt or lack of reverence for God(s), to religious or holy persons
or sacred things, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable.
Blasphemy the act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred
things; profane talk. Blasphemy is the act of insulting or showing contempt or
lack of reverence for God(s). Blasphemy is the act of claiming the attributes
of deity.
Profanity,
sacrilege, irreligion, irreverence, taking the Lord’s name in vain, swearing,
cursing, impiety, desecration; archaic execration: the act of giving up
something that you want to keep especially in order to get or do something else
or to help someone, an act of killing a person or animal in a religious
ceremony as an offering to please a god, a person or animal that is killed in a
sacrifice.
Are
you ready for a flood or pestilence or hordes of locust or sacrificing your
children? Is getting to forget to not move your car or take a library book back
on time worth a thunderbolt of lightning?
Now that is a leap of faith.
