Saturday, May 13, 2017

Does God Keep His Own Commandments?



It is interesting that though God is Love, and though we are aiming to be Love also, yet the way we show love is different than his.  He says that we are to show it by doing or not doing this or that.  Yet, these principles don’t apply to him.

We think of sin (the breaking of his commandments) as contrary to the nature of God, but this is ironic because the commandments are set with references that are outside God’s province.  For example, how could God have other gods before himself?  How could he break the sabbath when he is outside of time?  How could he honor his parents when he has none?  How could he murder when he has an a priori right to take any life since he made it?  How can he be adulterous when, contrary to some Salt Lake City theology, he is sexless?  How can he steal since it is all his?   

What about lying: communication is part of his experience, so he could theoretically lie, couldn’t he?  Glad you asked.  I think that God and those with whom he normally communicates in his reality are telepathic and probably don’t keep things from each other.  It’s hard to lie when everyone is reading your mind.  No, I think the ten commandments relate almost exclusively to the human condition and experience.  Not only was the sabbath made for man (Mark 2:28), but the whole law that it is part of was made for man too.  

No comments:

Post a Comment