Does Gods Law “Dehumanize”?
by Raymond F. McNair Why do countless millions, including many professing Christians, today seek to minimize, or in some way nullify, the perfect code of law which God to man nearly 3500 years ago? And why do so many mistakenly assume that Christ abolished His Father’s law? One “Christian” preacher recently told his congregation, “The law will even DEHUMANIZE you!” Really? Do the Ten Commandments dehumanize people? Or is it, rather, the transgression of those commands which really dehumanizes? When one dishonors his parents, murders his fellow humans, or commits adultery—don’t those actions dehumanize both the aggressor and the victim! God’s law always has a civilizing, humanizing effect on the lives of all who obey it! Today’s religious liberals espouse an emotion-based, self-defining and self- justifying code of conduct. With their mouths they have perfected the proclamation of love. But when it comes to defining godly ideals and divine standards of human conduct that you and everyon
