More Ambitious than God? December 4, 2009

by Will

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

December 4, 2009

How many laws are really necessary?

The Bible says that God gave ancient Israel Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai. Because of transgression God mandated the Mosaic Law, which contained roughly 600 laws and commandments. In the New Testament, Jesus ? the same Lawgiver Who wrote the Law on Sinai ? summarized it in two challenging but easily understood commandments.

Those at the helm of the modern state are much more ambitious than God.

In 2007, for example, the Texas state parole board identified 2,324 separate acts that had been classified as felonies; this year, that list increased by 59. A felony was once a crime punishable by death. That status is now given to much more trivial offenses.

Legal analyst Scott Henson points out that the Texas state code lists eleven felonies involving oyster-fishing. Henson also notes that not even prosecutors can keep track of the newly minted felonies.

The political class won?t be satisfied until they can devise a way to make felons out of all the rest of us.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.

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