[betty boop]

bb: Jeepers, Jesus Christ is not a lawyer.

AM: Sez who? He isn't called "wonderful counselor" for nothing!

But how does that square with 1 John 2:1?

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

Jesus Christ here advocates on our behalf, directly with the Father, not on behalf of the rules of the law court, understood at the human level. The law court is, of course, a human institution. If it truly serves the public good, then that means it is truly ordered in God's Law. But I have noticed that human institutions in general tend to fall away from their original principles and purposes in time.

In any case, all I can say is this: If you reduce Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of Our Father, to the status of a lawyer (a lawyer is an interpreter of law, not the law itself — not the Word, the Logos), then somehow I suspect you continue to miss the main message of the Christian religion.

Or so it seems to me. FWIW

[Alamo-Girl]

Truly there are two different sets of laws - the Law of God and the law of men.

Of course He established the divine Law and will see it fulfilled to the letter:

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. - Matthew 5:18

The laws of men, on the other hand, have no currency before Him. Indeed, I imagine our USC 26 (the Internal Revenue Code) is a source of humor among the angels.

LOLOL!

[Quix]

Well put.