Law

Connections List
 * Evil, Sin
 * Romans 7
 * Mosaic Law
 * Conscience law
 * John 1:8
 * All have sinned
 * Christian Liberty
 * All Commands
 * Pharisitical Law
 * Detect sin
 * Lawsuits in church
 * Atonement vocab
 * Guilt

Scope
 * Laws

Definition
 * "Revelaed will" by authorities, with or without consequences. Requires a lawgiver, power.

Topics
 * Purpose
 * Modifications, adulterations/misuses
 * Methods of determining guilt, trigger criteria
 * Law categories, examples

Purpose
 * The law was created in response to sin, given to show it clearly. However it gave certain power to sin, causing death. Because the law alone is not powerful to save.Yet the law is good. cf. Romans 7
 * Law also demonstrates how good God is. The high standard. Sanct side.
 * The law was created for our benefit.
 * Prov 29:18 "where there is no revelation (law), ppl cast off restraint"

Trigger criteria
 * Motive/intent - intelligence helps correspond motive to results
 * Desired result
 * World state heuristic of actor
 * Actual behavior, mechanical defintion
 * Comission
 * Omission
 * Mechanical consequences (how far in the future? scope?)
 * Knowledge if law exists (binary)
 * All criteria vs. true vs. assumed law

Modifications and misuses
 * In different cultures, following God may look very different. What matters is the heart. And trust HS to convict. Romans 14.
 * Adulterations of the law:
 * tempts to disobey
 * reveals more options to sin
 * legalism

Law manifest, examples
 * Mosaic law
 * Sacrifices
 * Festivals
 * Murder, cities of refuge
 * Rape
 * Runaway bulls
 * Salves, year of jubilee
 * Pharisitical law
 * Distance traveled
 * Tithe the spices
 * Raca
 * Jesus raises the bar (sermon on the mount, Gal 6:2)
 * Murder hate
 * Adultery lust
 * Eating consecrated bread
 * What comes out of a man
 * Conscience law (Romans 1:14-15)
 * Government law
 * Taxes to Ceasar
 * Moral cases for rebellion
 * Christians in politics