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Universal Laws vs. Stated Laws
 

Notice that Christ was crucified for supposedly breaking the Ten Commandments through blasphemy. The Ten Commandments meant whatever someone wanted them to mean.

What did Christ say about keeping holy on the sabbath? He said healing the sick (Mat 12:9-12) and feeding the hungry (Mat 12:1-8) are more important. Notice that healing the sick and feeding the hungry are not in the Ten Commandments.

There are more important laws than the Ten Commandments. The laws of the universe are the basis of life. The Ten Commandments were an attempt to summarize them but could hardly succeed. That's why Christ's teaching was necessary. Christ taught how to base eternal life upon universal laws.

Universal laws will always prevail; and therefore stated laws can only be an attempt to reflect upon universal laws, not replace them. Rationalizers attempt to override universal laws with their particular interpretation of stated laws, as they did in accusing Christ of blasphemy.

There is a very high tendency in recent Christianity to use stated laws to make a mockery of universal laws. This is what fundamentalism is all about. It is an attempt to state basic laws which must govern Christianity in contempt for common sense interpretations of universal laws through rationality.

In everything Christ did, he emphasized the importance of using rationality as the determining principle. Rationality is an attempt to determine what universal laws are. Stated laws can never override an attempt to determine universal laws through rationality, because stated laws can only be valid as an attempt to reflect upon universal laws. Rationality is needed to determine what stated laws should mean.

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