[trisham]

That is, God gives is commands, not because he, as it were, likes green better than purple, but because He loves us, and sin is bad for us. There's not just a debt against him for disobedience, there are the effects in ourselves of our sinfulness, the damage it does to us. The wrath of God is not arbitrary, it's organic, the sin is its own punishment.

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Amen. It took me until my early thirties to understand this interpretation of sin and God's commands. When we speak of "God the Father", I believe this is what it means.

[Mad Dawg]

Amen. It took me until my early thirties to understand this interpretation of sin and God's commands. When we speak of "God the Father", I believe this is what it means.

And it's how you can get psalms like 19 and 119. LAW is not a good translation of Torah, I suspect. "Teaching" is good and I like "instruction" because that has aspects both of "command" and of "teaching". When things don't work, the instructions are SO NICE to have!