Post #249 "Is The Law Disguised as Love?"

What is the root of The Law?
What caused Law to come about?
How is Law connected to civilization?

Is The Law the basis of civilization?

What about The Law and God?
Could there be Law without God?---
Would there be The Law without God?
----or could there be God without Law?

The God of the Old testament says to the effect,"I will be your God and you will
be my people, if you keep my Law".
It seems then, that to belong to God, one would have to keep God's Law.
There were and are many Gods but because of The Law, there can only be One God.
One God to determine, by The Law, who can claim Sonship.
Of course, Sonship has everything to do with Inheritance.
Through Sonship one claims Possession, as in ownership.
Ownership not only provides possession, wealth, power,
but also gives Identity----
-------you are what you own and you own because of who you are.
--------Hmmmmmmmmm-----
 

Is God's Law, then, the basis of civilization?

Is civilization based on keeping The Law?

Are we civilized by keeping The Law----,

---the Law-as in a Code of Conduct?

Is this Law what makes us who we are?---
---whether we keep it or not?

And is 'who we are' determined by 'what we do'--

---what we do, as in living by Laws, by Codes of Conduct?

History suggests that Law originated with God,

and perhaps, God originated with Law.

It seems therefore that Identity is determined by the Code of Conduct/The Law,

by which a person or a people are Identified.

In early history,
in the roots of civilization,
the idea of Law seems to evidence itself in conjunction with the idea of The Land.
We seem to have The Law and The Land as determinates of who we are.
Law and Land was determined by hereditary ownership empowered by an overseeing,
all-powerful, God of Creation,
that through this God,
one could claim the 'beyond', the 'vast', the 'untouchable', 'unlimited',
and 'unexplainable' Power of that God.
Through the 'unknowable' vastness of this God,
one could lay claim to all this God was said to create, namely all of creation,
----at that Time,
All that was known of the created world----
all came from and belonged to this God.
By claiming this God, one could claim Possession of the Land,
including the Land's resources and The Land's people,
thereby providing Identity and the Right to Make and Establish and Enforce The Law
that was intended to protect and enforce that entitlement to The Land as Son Heir
and as total Possessor and Law Maker and Law enforcer.

Here 'Other' emerged out of Self.
None of this could occur if Self did not feel threatened by its Choice to remove from it-Self
the Other, the Singular Other of Reality,
for by so doing, Self lost Entity and Infiniteness, because only Other than Self can define
Self and bring Self into Self as Self, in Entity and Infiniteness.
Self dealt with and deals with its fear by dividing it-Self down into its Singular Self
and its "Other-of-Self' thereby intending to define it-Self and create its own Entity and
its own Infiniteness.
Self creates out of it-Self, God and Other.
Result; anything not able to attain the Perfection of its created God, Becomes 'Other'.
'Other' is essential to the existence of Self.
Self needs energy to exist in its created environment.
Self feeds off of 'Other'.
Self creates 'Other' out of it-Self.
Self loses a part, a piece of it-Self to become 'Other' than Self that Self may feed upon
it-Self.
Thereby Self sustains it-Self in creation.
'Other' Becomes essential food, thereby loses a part of it-Self.
Self and Becomes 'Other' than the Perfection of deified humanity.
'Other' Becomes 'other' than Self,
Other than human,
'Other' loses the potential to Perfection,
in other words, loses the potential of Becoming God.

Everything about 'Other than Human' Becomes 'foreign', meaning 'unholy', 'evil',
or 'enemy'.
Self casts off a part of it-Self by becoming enemy of it-Self.
Self takes on the responsibility to protect it-Self through Possession as in Land,
through its Identity, as heir to all its God has created,
through its Law through which it justifies the destruction of  'Other'.
This 'Other' must be destroyed that ownership, Identity, and Authority will not be challenged.
Other-than-Self is a threat to Self,
Self destroying Self.
Humanity destroying Humanity.

The Law becomes the means of the 'Right to Destroy'
through its claim to Godship.
 The Law is said to come from an Ultimate source of Authority that cannot be challenged
because of its 'beyondness', its 'vastness', its 'incomprehendableness'.
The Law is on the side of Self,
Self is on the side of God, against Other.
Other becomes anyone who does not obey the Law of God
consequently The Law is seen as 'good' and as 'just' to Self
Basically, Self determines Self as Becoming God by keeping God's Law which is Self's Law,
Law made by Self through its created Ultimate Authority that is so powerful it may not
be questioned.
It seems difficult to not see religion as political, as being The Law under the cover, under
the diguise of Love.
Is God's Love the disguise for God's Law.
Substituting the word 'Love' for Law, makes Law more palatable.
To Self, The Law is another way of saying 'Love'.
God is the God of Law.
God is the God of Love.