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THE NATURAL LAW
The very fact that we exist and have a human nature places us in this world, and by our very existence we have relationships! We have a relationship to God, to others, to ourselves and to the world. We are judged by our actions and relationships. . The Natural Law is the expression of God's Eternal Law. God is the one objective source of morality. The first principle of the Natural Law is to love God and our neighbor as ourselves. The Natural Law teaches us to do good and shun evil (First Peter 3:11). St. Peter reminds us in the Acts of the Apostles: We must obey God rather than men. Acts 5:29
Both the prophet Jeremiah in the Old Testament and St. Paul in the New Testament of the Bible refer to a natural law that God has written in the hearts of men:
St. Augustine defined God's eternal law as "the reason or the will of God, who commands us to respect the natural order and forbids us to disturb it." St. Thomas Aquinas calls the natural law "the human participation in God's eternal law." Aquinas wrote about faith and reason, which are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth. Through faith we assent to Divine Revelation, and through reason people naturally understand some basic practical principles, which he calls the "primary principles of the natural law." Aquinas continues that "every law made by man can be called a law insofar as it is derived from the natural law. But if it is somehow opposed to the natural law, then it is not really a law, but a corruption of the law."
Our Declaration of Independence speaks of God our Creator and the Natural Law, that every man has certain unalienable rights, namely, Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson recognized that we have freedom and dignity as human beings because we are creatures of God.
more on The Natural Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_The ... ise_on_Law The Summa Theologiae (written 1265–1274 Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peace and Love ღ Sandy (Maryschild)
_________________ "Say the Rosary every day...Pray, pray a lot and offer sacrifices for sinners... I'm Our Lady of the Rosary "...Our Lady at Fatima 1917
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