Season 4 Podcast 97, “The Necessity of Law Pt I.”
If we live the laws of liberty perfectly, we will have perfect freedom. Any violation of those laws leads to captivity. If the laws of man are not in harmony with the laws of God, then freedom, agency, and liberty will fall. A measure of disorder is a measure of the absence of obedience to the laws of God. One may as easily change the tides by howling at the moon like a coyote as to try to restore freedom by disobeying the laws of God.
The reason the law of mercy is necessary is because the law of justice cannot be compromised. If the law of justice were compromised, then God would cease to be God, order would give way to chaos, and all would end as our misdirected scientists claim into a giant heat death or maximum equilibrium.
The law of justice is the embodiment of the perfections and power of God. The law of mercy is the demonstration of the perfect love of Christ for his children. Because Christ obeyed the law of justice perfectly, he never fell under the penalty of the law; however, because none of us can live the law of justice perfectly, we all fall under the condemnation of the law. The law of justice must exist, or absolute chaos would take over. If God violated the law of justice, he would cease to be God. That is why absolute standards are necessary. Sin is not arbitrary. Sin is the violation of the commandments of God. The commandments of God represent his perfection. Without law there would be no sin, but also without law there would be no God, no heaven or hell, no good or evil, and no order and creation—there would be nothing!
Science, which only considers temporal law, is closer to the truth than they know because without the law of justice, all creation would reach maximum equilibrium, also called ‘the giant heat death.’ Maximum equilibrium is absolute chaos, the only chaotic state. Science discounts the existence of God, the existence of absolute law, and the existence of immortality and eternal life. By excluding spiritual law or the absolute power of God, science, because of entropy, can arguably arrive at no other conclusion but maximum equilibrium. After all, in the scientific world, all things are measured by mortal measurements, all that lives must die, including the cosmos.
Also, because science accepts only temporal law, which is deterministic, they cannot account for the immortal spirit, the resurrection, eternal life, or freewill. The mortal body, for example, is governed entirely by law; therefore, science claims, man cannot have freewill. Given their false premise, their conclusion is perfectly logical. It is for that reason that they compare man to animals, one of the greatest fallacies of our age. The arguments of science are meticulously logical; however, because their fundamental premises are false—that God does not exist, that immortality does not exist, that spiritual laws do not exist—their arguments, no matter how logical, are unsound.
Remove God from the equation and science has no other option but scientific nihilism and cosmic cynicism. Regardless of the appearance of liberty on earth, if science were correct in their assumptions, then death would be the final act. They cling to Darwinian evolution because what else is there based on their false premises? They walk by sight and not by faith.
The theory of evolution is a mortal matter only, strictly governed by temporal law; therefore, it is limited by temporal law and, though it accounts for the continuation of species, it cannot account for the origin of species. It is a perfect explanation for the variety of life on earth and the endurance of life on earth, but it is not an explanation for the beginning of life or the continuation of life after death.
