Scripturally Speaking, Obeying the Law is Correct

Recently the broadcast media yippees of the day trotted out the war-wagons of palaver to chastise the Attorney General for his opinion that Christians should obey the laws, as should other people. Equal protection of the law is an important concept for democracy and justice; illegal aliens and citizens in the United States have equal protection of and accountability to the law; or should.

Governments can pass unjust laws. The U.S. Declaration of Independence explains how natural law provides an inherent right-of-revolt against unjust laws and rulers. It is a rational criterion that must be used by thinking people though about when it is right to revolt rather than to be a subversive because everything doesn’t follow one’s own political preferences. Too far to the non-conformist side and one finds the realm of sociopathic and tyrannical cult behavior.

Matthew Chapter 5 reads; “17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach [them], the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”

Jesus was speaking about the religious laws of God rather than those of man, and that is a source of confusion to many modern secular people. They do not understand that Jesus was not working to reinforce a theocratic secular government; he created a new legal system where the laws of God were written on the heart rather than in civil code. Even so, he fulfilled the old religious laws rather than destroyed them.

Jesus said in the Gospel according to John Chapter 14, verse 21; “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.”

Christians today should share a priesthood of believers church structure where all participate each Sunday as ministers professing faith. The Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 2, verse 13 that; “(For not the hearers of the law [are] just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.”

 Even so, traditional, pre-literate era Christian ministers should be aware that Christianity is about sharing Christianity rather than trying to change political affairs. It is a great achievement in a nation saturated with a yippee media, secular godless values and illegal drugs for a congregation to gather on a Sunday to worship God and turn away from secular political concerns. There are a great number of laws today that are against the spirit of the word of God, yet Christians themselves can work affirmatively on a world of Christian concerns civilly that positively affect the body-politic.

The silent majority (as Richard Nixon called it) obey the laws of government. That is good and sometimes bad (as in the slavery era of the south) or the 3rd Reich of the Nazi Socialist Worker’s Party. Bad leadership can take a people far to the gates of hell as in the case of the Bolshevik Party of the former Soviet Union. In this era of mass communication with the masses indoctrinated by a Universe of shallow sound bite silliness and propaganda from the turbo-superficial and short-sighted broadcast media, three scriptural citations are useful to consider on the topic of obeying government (and the U.S. Government is about the people deciding what laws should be made and are just through political representatives);

Romans 13:1-5 – “Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.”  

Titus 3:1 –“Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,”

Galatians 3:11 – “no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, [it is] evident: for, The just shall live by faith.”

What Was Beyond the T=0 SIngularity

There are numerous theories about the singularity at the start of the Universe (or Multiverse) and the paradigm in which it existed. The General Theory of Relativity extrapolation regarding gravity reduced to time=0 has the point infinitely, vanishingly small. No one actually understands what occurs to either mass or energy in such a state. Some believe it stops shrinking to nothing somewhere (maybe because time has stopped too) and is stable, fair and balanced before quantum uncertainty makes it jittery and it explodes then hyper-inflates for a fraction of a second.

That's all speculation. Quantum mechanics don't work at that level. People have invented pre-big bang theories and view the t=0 singularity as a kind of middle of an hour glass that another Universe collapses in to with gravity before exploding outward. There are DeBroglie-Bohm and Everettian versions of quantum mechanics differing from those of the standard model of the Copenhagen Interpretation and they would allow different ideas about the singularity (unless it was a membrane instead of a singularity) to be made.

The mass-energy of the Universe compacted to a singularity could be configured in as many ways as human imagination allows. I like the idea about Divine Mechanics. Some prefer Tegmark's concept of the Universe composed of mathematics in-itself. A point is a zero-dimension thing, If a point with a Universe full of energy-mass existed it seems as if there could be no virtual particles around it since that energy would be attracted to it as should everything else across empty space.

Virtual particles are something like ghost super-positions of particles that actually exist. It could be that the singularity had a quantum cloud extending in all possible positions across the empty space where it was not. Even the quantum cloud would have used some energy-perhaps equal to the amount of energy in the singularity; yet I am skeptical of that.

One wonders what sort of energy would contain or define the limits of superpositioned particles of the cloud centered on the singularity; if there is a Multiverse would the superpositoned cloud be limited to just one Universe or all possible Universes? Would the quantum cloud of any particular Universe interfere with the cloud field of others?

This is Morality

Morality it is said is a description of what people (society) actually do, ethically speaking. Pros can write about an ideal moral system as may anyone else so inclined, yet the prevailing moral system is what people and society actually do and the manner they implement their formal procedures and guidelines for what is named as 'moral'.

There may be moral systems that are true and correct that are not used at all, and their may be divine criteria for human behavior that are true and adhered to by some and disregarded by others. Morality for a society is however an abstract description of the way people behave.

Mind Over Matter

Some wonder if human beinginess is nothing besides biological drives. It isn't a new interest.

 One has biology and one has thought. Thought differs quite a bit from organic matter. For thousands of years people distinguished mind from matter and believed in the rise of thought over matter and soley organic being. Recent times have brought a regressive movement of reductionism wherein thought is regarded as phenomenal and a meaningless rider on matter.

 Actually it is incredble that sophistication can lead to sillyness.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions Thinks People Should Obey Laws; What Next!

The Attorney General of the United States; Jeff Sessions, recently expressed the radical opinion that people should obey laws and that government is good for social order. He compounded the inflamatory rhetoric of his extremist point of view in citing Biblical scripture to support the point. A constellation of mainstream godless atheist media publications soundly rejected his scripture quotes and provided much scripture to indicate the Bible supports their mainstream left-corporatist hatred of Jeff Sessions and all things Donald Trump'd.

“Illegal entry into the United States is a crime — as it should be,” he said. “Persons who violate the law of our nation are subject to prosecution. I would cite you to the apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13 to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained them for the purpose of order.”

Government may or may not be good. Hugo Grotius in 1625 examined that problem of laws being a good or bad thing in his paper The Laws of War and Peace...

 "For you, who know the fate of men and gods, What is, what shall be, shameful would it be To know not what is just.

3. Such a work is all the more necessary because in our day, as in former times, there is no lack of men who view this branch of law with contempt as having no reality outside of an empty name. On the lips of men quite generally is the saying of Euphernus, which Thucydides quotes, that in the case of a king or imperial city nothing is unjust which is expedient. Of like implication is the statement that for those whom fortune favors might makes right, and that the administration of a state cannot be carried on without injustice.
Furthermore, the controversies which arise between peoples or kings generally have Mars as their arbiter. That war is irreconcilable with all law is a view held not alone by the ignorant populace; expressions are often let slip by well-informed and thoughtful men which lend countenance to such a view. Nothing is more common than the assertion of antagonism between law and arms. Thus Ennius says:

Not on grounds of right is battle joined, But rather with the sword do men Seek to enforce their claims.

Horace, too, describes the savage temper of Achilles in this wise:
Laws, he declares, were not for him ordained; By dint of arms he claims all for himself.
Another poet depicts another military leader as commencing war with the words:
Here peace and violated laws I leave behind."

Antigonus when advanced in years ridiculed a man who brought to him a treatise on justice when he was engaged in besieging cities that did not belong to him. Marius declared that the din of arms made it impossible for him to hear the voice of the laws. Even Pompey, whose expression of countenance was so mild, dared to say: ‘When I am in arms, am I to think of laws?’"

Jeff Sessions cited the Bible in support of his radical notion that government is a good thing. If it was that does not mean that governments cannot do wrong. One  need merely consider the governments of Bill Clinton and Adolph Hitler to realize that. 

In theory, governments do exist for social order and it is incumbent upon citizens of a democracy to obey laws and respect their own self-governing structure. A government needs to upgrade its administrative laws in response to new external challenges to its existence. Illegal immigration and foreign invasion are external challenges to social order.

Special Invs Mueller Shouldn't Dup Comey's Maladroit Election Machinations

When Special Investigator Mueller warned about Russian mid-term election interference he crossed a line he should have remained behind. If he has solid information he should have gone to Homeland Security rather than the broadcast media. He sounds like a Democrat from the 2016 contest and that was the problem with recently chastised former F.B.I. head James Comey when he let Hillary Clinton's e-mail security bungling off without a charge or valid special investigation.

http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/392453-Mueller-warns-of-Russian-midterm-attack-while-Trump-attacks-Mueller

There is little to no chance that any Russian government agent or anyone else will be able to stuff the ballot box electronically. The security supposedly is good enough. Since Mayor Daley of Chicago threw the 1960 Presidential election to John F. Kennedy election officials have been more eagle eyed and aware about keeping box-integrity.

Russians may be able to propagandize via adds and fake news along with the unlimited contributions of the rich to political action committees that are hardly neutral, Russians can compete with the mind-numbing blather of commercial television network programming and the Hollywood celebrity horseshi_ that attacks American though annually. I think it is hardy a valid concern of a rational government to attempt to socialize control of free expression while seeking unlimited material trade globally. Intellectual properties and free expression  are actually more important to national and citizen liberty than commodity transfers.

Is anything from the media really supposed to be credible and unbiased? Can Russians command even 1% of the national election palaver and propaganda?

Kids of Adult Criminals (Including Illegal Entry to USA) Should Be Well Treated

I am no expert on custody and child protection laws. I wonder though, if Americans commit crimes and take their kids along, do they usually keep custody of the kids?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/06/15/why-the-trump-administration-bears-the-blame-for-separating-children-from-their-families-at-the-border/?utm_term=.a4084a7795c5

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-news-trump-gop-immigration-child-separating-20180615-story.html

Apparently it a crime to illegally enter a nation; well, at least the United States. Adults bringing children with them on their criminal venture are seperated after arrest and the insiders and Democrats are howling after the President on that issue.

The kids forced along on the crime because they weren't willing to ditch their parents should have good surroundings while waiting for their parents to process through the legal system. Of course they should have quality education in the while before returning to Mexico or wherever they are citizens. Probably teaching them how to use the Internet would be a cost effective and useful area to invest in since it doesn't take too long and could help them down the road.