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.
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