Give to Caesar. Why? Better law and justice?

[Anonymous]

GnosticChristianBishop wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

GnosticChristianBishop wrote:Give to Caesar. Why? Better law and justice?

Do you theists crave God’s law on earth, --- or do you think Jesus was saying that secular law was better?

Giving to Caesar includes loyalty and allegiance to the law of the land.

Jesus would not recommend an inferior justice system.

I guess that the choice is between God’s tyranny, --- and liberty to only follow the law, --- another tyranny, --- which has already negated any notion of freedom for man.

Is secular law inferior or superior to the laws of the Gods?

Regards
DL

We live in a religiously pluralistic society. To impose a religious law on such a society requires imposing a shared religious conception on it - such attempts have resulted in massive bloodshed (in the West, see the Thirty Years War, the English Civil War, etc) So for the sake of life and peace (religious values) we accept a secular concept of law.

Indeed, as we also know that that law is a lot better than theistic law.

The God of the earth, in terms of law, the important part of life, is now a secular God.

Three cheers. Right?

Regards
DL

Not sure what you mean. Secular, in latin, means of the world. G-d of the earth is obviously over the world. And wants us to live in the world, in peace.

Theistic means believing in G-d. Law does not believe, humans do. Law is not theistic or atheist. I think you mean divine law? Law from revelation perhaps (though those are not synonyms)

If you know what G-d wants you to do its good to follow that presumably (for reasons we can get into). Whether its a good idea to attempt to get that will enforced by human coercion (presumably by the state, though there are other forms of coercion) is another matter.