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   %ARROGANT IDOLATRY SPEAK CERTAINTY GOD KNOWLEDGE 040322
%UNILATERALLY CONCEIVE CREATE LAW LEGAL SYSTEM SINS 040322
 %ANCIENT PRESENT FUTURE CULTURE FACILITATE PROMOTE 040322
 %PARTICIPANT COMMUNITY MODERN FUTURE ETERNAL VALID 040322
%ABSOLUTE TRUTH VALID EXCLUSIVE NARROW TECHNOCRATIC 040322
%IDOLATRY COMPLEMENTARY HERESY REJECTION ALIENATION 040322

     It  is  arrogant for any person to presume  to  speak

with certainty for God, presuming to have the knowledge of
God.

     A person (or some persons) who is (or are) NOT  well-
integrated participating member(s) of a community (in time
and  place)  cannot unilaterally write for a community ---
a  law  or  system   of   laws   which   will    certainly
facilitate/promote personal-and-communal-integrity in  the
separate community; i.e., apart from the writer(s).

     1.  ANCIENT  people  cannot have  created  a  law  or
system  of laws  which will  certainly  facilitate/promote
personal and communal integrity  in our community which is
separated  from  them  in time and place.   Ancient   laws
cannot   be eternally valid for all cultures,   times  and
places.

     2.  Modern  people  of one  distinct  culture  cannot
create  a  law  or  system of laws  which  will  certainly
facilitate/promote personal and communal integrity  in our
time   in  a  DIFFERENT/CONTRASTING  community   which  is
separated from them by significant cultural,  educational,
scholarly,    religious,    political,   and/or   economic
differences.   Laws we conceive and write cannot transcend
all cultural differences.

     3.  Modern  people  of one  distinct  culture  cannot
create  a  law  or  system of laws  which  will  certainly
facilitate/promote  personal and communal integrity  in  a
FUTURE    time  and  place  in   a   different/contrasting
community which  is  separated  from them  by  significant
cultural, educational,  scholarly,  religious,  political,
and/or economic differences.    Laws we conceive and write
cannot be eternally "good" laws.

     God  is  not any one law or any perfected  system  of
laws.   Domineering people often act as if God is some one
law or  a  few  laws ---  which only they are qualified to
interpret.   Such domineering people, and those who follow
such  domineering  people,  often  engage  in   idolatrous
patterns  of  behavior ---  worshipping that which is  not
God.   Being ultimately concerned about that which is  not
God, is idolatry.  Idolatry leads to personal and communal
disintegrations.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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