MORALITY vs LEGALITY

There is a reason the sun shines and dries things up. The rain falls and gets things wet. My immeasurable love for science is not a secret but I promise I'm not going into science right now. One thing I must say is that almost every scientist I know agree on the fact that nature cannot be altered without monumental consequences. When you breath, your oxygen should not be permanently replaced with carbon-dioxide and vice versa. It is natural for living creatures (Plants, Animals and Humans) to reproduce - Genesis 1:22; 1:28. Deliberate alteration of such natural process by putting an end to it cannot be successful without deadly consequences.

Nature cannot be successfully altered; not even by a constitution. We cannot claim to "know" God if we don't understand why we became Christians. This understanding means that we went into an agreement with God and accepted the bible as our Christian constitution. The bible teaches us morality, which is the difference between right and wrong. But the worldly constitution is all about legality, which tells us what is legal and illegal. Something being legally right doesn't mean it is morally right. I'm not saying to go ahead and start disobeying the government in whatever part of the world you live in but make sure to "compare" their legal constitution with your moral constitution before reaching a conclusion.

My point is, you don't steal, not because the Supreme Court said not to but because the bible said not to steal. If the courts or the government say that murder is a crime, this is good to know but this is not why you are not a murderer. You are not a murderer because you listen to God, not man. This ability to prioritize who to listen to will help us stay on the straight and narrow because we will understand our walk with God better. So if prostitution becomes legal or constitutional tomorrow, you will not need a debate as to if you should or should not obey the government because you have already pledge to one source of information and truth, which is your Christian constitution - the bible.

Let me emphasize on something that the apostle Paul said prior to making a list of sins that will lead us to hell if we continue in them. Paul did not try to single out a group of people to condemn; instead he used a different approach by letting us know that sin is sin and as Christians, we don't need a court or a government to make this clear to us.

Paul, in first Corinthians 6 was upset that Christians were relying on unbelievers in a court of law (aka the government) to tell them the difference between right and wrong. He wasn't concerned about right or wrong that had to do with basic governmental rules and regulations. The right and wrong he was focused on was the moral or biblical truth about how we as Christians must live our lives here on earth regardless of what human rules are. No, Paul is not saying you can't go to court as a Christian. But you cannot rely on a court of law to tell you that stealing is wrong when you should already know this as a Christian. Long story short, Paul is basically saying we should know better (1 Corinthians 6:1-8) especially as those with access to the perfect law of liberty (James 1:25). The only law that should take priority in our lives is God's law.

Not everything that "looks wrong" to us human is a sin because not every human law is right. Daniel was thrown into the lion's den for not following the law of the land to worship another god so the word "law" doesn't automatically mean something that is or should be BINDING to us Christians.

See related post on same sex marriage: 

WHEN HUMAN DESIRE REPLACES WHAT GOD REQUIRES