Season 3 Podcast 48 Temporal Law

Temporal LawTemporal laws have neither uncertainty nor surprise. It is only our own ignorance that has uncertainty and surprise. We often learn the effects after the fact. Experience is a very harsh teacher, and temporal laws do not discriminate.Temporal laws do not require faith. They require knowledge. The greater our knowledge of temporal law, the greater our freedom.Temporal laws deal with right or wrong. Get it wrong and you die, depending upon the severity of the law you ignored. The physical body, for example, is governed by laws of health. If we ignore those laws, we may suffer a lingering illness, a sudden death, a permanent disability, or a multitude of nagging consequences. Temporal law has a long and perfect memory, and it always wins. Contrary to appearances, temporal law never postpones consequences. We may have the illusion of cheating death, but temporal law is under no illusion. It claims its due with absolute certainty and the clock is ticking. Temporal laws establish the boundaries of our freedom in a mortal world. Temporal laws give us freedom to the extent that we know, understand, and apply the conditions of temporal law. It is power over the conditions of temporal law that gives us freedom because the use of temporal law expands our choices. Temporal law has its limitations and cannot extend its power beyond the boundaries set by God. All temporal laws can be discovered by man. Though impractical, it is potentially possible to learn every law of the universe without believing in God or without acknowledging the existence of God. Temporal law does not have the power to create life or to grant immortal life. That exceeds its boundaries. All life is in the spirit, not in the physical body.  Life is immortal. The body dies.  The spirit doesn’t. Temporal law deals with temporal things or things that run on a clock. In other words, they govern the life of temporal matter. The spirit gives life to the body. When the spirit leaves, the body dies. Temporal law may extend physical life, but it cannot extend physical life beyond its boundaries.  The boundaries of temporal law are fixed, and they are irreversible in the context of temporal law. No temporal law can violate another temporal law. Flight, for example, does not violate the law of gravity. Temporal laws are deterministic.  If we were governed only by temporal laws, such as the moon circling the earth, we would not have agency or freewill or freedom.  Temporal laws are never arbitrary. Temporal laws never sleep.  They never relinquish their power. Temporal law does not pass moral judgment.  Temporal law cares nothing about good or evil, God or Satan, saint or sinner, guilt or innocence. It was designed that way by God that man may have freedom. If it were designed any other way, man would be ruled by fear not faith, and that is not God’s intent. The misunderstanding of temporal law has been the basis for most religious superstition.  Though it requires faith to believe in intelligent design, it does not require faith to believe in temporal law. It simply requires knowledge which can be discovered by using the scientific method. To worship anything governed by temporal law is idol worship.