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“Great peace have they which love thy law”

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Announcements Forums Love — August 1st, 2021 “Great peace have they which love thy law”

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    In an article entitled, “Love is the fulfilling of the law,” (CSJ, March 1915, by Willard S. Mattox), the author contrasts human law with God’s law. He points out that human law “is based on the assumption that man is fundamentally disposed to violate the law, and as a consequence, penalties are provided in advance of the expected violation” and “this inculcates fear. . . and fear is a prolific producer of evil effect.”

    By contrast, “The statutes promulgated by divine intelligence have no consciousness of a willingness, an intent, or a disposition which is opposed to their benign activities. These statues…are in their very essence tender, loving, and gracious. . . . Nothing, then, in the universe, including man, is under fear of punishment from the law of God, because that law means, and is, only life, harmony, and perfect being to every created thing.”

    Further, the author states that “Love is the realization of the law. When we understand that law can never accomplish anything but love, there will be no law to hurt us. Law which finds its fulfilment or expression in love, must be perfect,. . . . Therefore, law never punishes, never condemns, never penalizes, since law which is perfection’s self cannot be conscious of anything that deserves to be punished, and cannot consciously operate to produce anything like punishment.”

    What peace is ours, indeed, as we love God’s law, His commandments/statutes, through this understanding of “law” as taught in Christian Science!

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