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There is as many forms of Community Law as there are forms of Community.

We recommend a study of the different forms of law used by men to learn how they play out in the roll of communities and how they may alter or even destroy a community or protect it from corruption.

Ancient cultures often held fundamental concepts of justice they applied as a matter of culture. The ancient Egyptians had a list of law call Maat. While the Law of the Maat was exemplified in 42 Negative Confessions Maat. These negative statements of what not to do were expressing the spirit in which justice was applied rather than the detailed legalistic exposition of rules and punishments.

The same is somewhat true of the Mosaic Law.^[1]

The Ten Commandments of Israel were just an abbreviated form of these Maat rules. The Ten Commandments are still seen as the fundamental laws over the supreme court as basic and fundamental yet not always applied equally in all things. The Ten Laws of Israel were to be applied by the heart of society itself through a network of free assemblies or congregations not an individual or elite group which had become a centralized authority ruling over the people and making new laws often in its own self interest.

The Weightier matters of law were the responsibility of every citizen not a ruling class. What bound society was not social contracts through Consent but a system of social welfare which functioned by freewill or charitable contributions. For justice to prevail in a voluntary society the people had to have the law in their hearts and for the law to be justice it must be tempered with mercy which is born out of forgiveness and love.^[2]

If the law is Spirit and there is a Law of Nature then nature of society will conform to the law cultivated in the hearts of society. Nature is the manifestation of the God of Nature and exemplifies the righteousness of nature and of God.

We may want to define God as the Creator of Nature. But Paul the apostle who was a leader of an Intentional Community said there were "gods many". The gods of society are whoever those societies pray or apply to in order to receive the benefits of society. To know who is the god within a society is we only need to examine the fruit of society. Is there justice and mercy?

Society will bear witness to the gods it serves.

Footnotes

↑ Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Romans 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
↑ Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Galatians 3:2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Galatians 3:5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Galatians 5:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

[1] Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Romans 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

[2] Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Galatians 3:2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Galatians 3:5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Galatians 5:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

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-== Sense of Community ==
-Because of man's inherent agrarian nature he may need a “Sense of Community”.
+There is as many forms of [[Community Law]] as there are forms of '''[[Community]]'''.
-* “Sense of community is a feeling that members have of belonging, a feeling that members matter to one another and to the group, and a shared faith that members’ needs will be met through their commitment to be together (Dr David McMillan, 1976).
+We recommend a study of the different forms of law used by men to learn how they play out in the roll of communities and how they may alter or even destroy a community or protect it from corruption.
-In nature people are members of families and those families may form clans through marriage and communities through common interaction. The natural family as a unit may have a head or leader based on age and consanguinity.<Ref>Consanguinity ("blood relation", from the Latin consanguinitas) is the property of being from the same kinship as another person. In that aspect, consanguinity is the quality of being descended from the same ancestor as another person.</Ref> The head of a family has been called an Elder. In the ancient Latin culture the the ‘power of the father’, patria potestas, was inherent in his personal 'power to command' his family, his imperium.<Ref>Imperium is a Latin word which, in a broad sense, translates roughly as 'power to command'. In ancient [[Rome]], different kinds of power or authority were distinguished by different terms. ''Imperium'' referred to the ability of an individual to command the military but originally the military was the militia of the people before the people began compromising their natural rights in social compacts.</Ref>
-The family was often compromised by social compacts of contracts transferring allegiance from the head of the family to the head of the community or state. The whole family and the natural liberty of the individuals within the family was compromised by these contracts which could be implied or executed.
+Ancient cultures often held fundamental concepts of justice they applied as a matter of culture. The ancient Egyptians had a list of law call [[Law of the Maat|Maat]]. While the [[Law of the Maat]] was exemplified in 42 ''Negative Confessions Maat''. These negative statements of what not to do were expressing the spirit in which justice was applied rather than the detailed legalistic exposition of rules and punishments.
-Congregations from the view of the Church, established by Christ, are free assemblies of families. The family is represented by the head of the natural family who is often the eldest member of that family still living identified as an Elder. Within the family there is a naturally imposed authority and allegiance upon the membership of the individual under the head of the family. There is also a hierarchy.
+The same is somewhat true of the Mosaic Law.<Ref>Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
+:Romans 7:6  But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.</Ref>
-To maintain the natural freedom of the individual when families are gathering together one must consider the dangers and pitfalls of obtaining a “Sense of Community”. While gathering in congregations certain priorities and principles should be considered to avoid an unhealthy infringement upon the individual liberty. One does not want to “belong” to a congregation because the act of “belonging” may reduce our natural liberty from an individual to a person.
+The [[Ten Commandments]] of Israel were just an abbreviated form of these [[Law of the Maat|Maat rules]].  The [[Ten Commandments]] are still seen as the fundamental laws over the supreme court as basic and fundamental yet not always applied equally in all things. [[The Ten Laws]] of Israel were to be applied by the heart of society itself through a network of [[Free Assemblies|free assemblies]] or [[congregations]] not an individual or elite group which had become a centralized authority ruling over the people and making new laws often in  its own self interest.
-The Church only wants the individual to belong to a Christ and the Father of creation within the “natural family” and not compromise that sacred institution by granting authority or allegiance to the “fathers of the earth” whether they be civil or ecclesiastical.
+The [[Weightier matters]] of law were the responsibility of every citizen not a ruling class. What bound society was not [[Social contract|social contracts]] through [[Consent]] but a system of social [[welfare]] which functioned by [[Freewill offerings|freewill or charitable contributions]]. For justice to prevail in a voluntary society the people had to have the law in their hearts and for the law to be justice it must be tempered with mercy which is born out of forgiveness and love.<Ref>Romans 8:2  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
+<Br>Romans 8:4  That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
+<Br>Galatians 3:2  This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
+<Br>Galatians 3:5  He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
+<Br>Galatians 5:18  But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.</Ref>
-While we should have an egalitarian approach toe everyone that position must allow for individual growth and change. How does a congregation of recorded elders develop a “Sense of Community” and remain free?
+If the law is Spirit and there is a [[Natural Law|Law of Nature]] then nature of society will conform to the law cultivated in the hearts of society. Nature is the manifestation of the God of Nature and exemplifies the righteousness of nature and of God.
-It has been suggested that there are  four factors  to the development of a “Sense of Community”:
+We may want to define God as the Creator of Nature. But Paul the apostle who was a leader of an [[Intentional Community]] said there were [[Gods|"gods many"]]. The gods of society are whoever those societies pray or apply to in order to receive the [[Benefits|benefits of society]]. To know who is the god within a society is we only need to examine the fruit of society. Is there justice and mercy?
-There is fundamental law principles found in [[Natural Law]]. All legal systems of law are created by contracts, covenants and constitutions which are agreements. While those agreements may be written up by a few people new members of the community created by those original agreements may add additional contracts that are ruled over by the body and its judicial system. The direction those new contracts take may alter the destination of society as a whole.
-“All government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery!”<Ref> Jonathon Swift</Ref>
+Society will bear witness to the [[gods]] it serves.
-If the Romans, from whom we take much of the principles upon which the present legal system relies, saw fit and necessary to use two separate and distinct words, one lex and the other jus, then why do we often use them interchangeably. It is in the distinction between these two words that much of our honest confusion lies.
-While, “The law (jus) is the rule of right; and whatever is contrary to the rule of right is an injury”,<Ref>Jus est norma recti; et quicquid est contra normam recti est injuria. 3 Bulstr.313.</Ref> we find that “human laws (lex, leges) are born, live, and die”.<Ref>Leges humanæ nascuntur, vivuntet moriuntur.</Ref> “That which bars those who have contracted will bar their successors also.”<Ref>Quod ipsis, qui cotraxerunt, abstat; et successoribus eorum obstabit. Di.50.17.29.</Ref> Therefore, “The contract makes the law”<Ref>5Legem enim contractus dat. 22 Wend. N.Y. 215,223.</Ref> for our children, as well as for ourselves.
-“We shall have world government whether or not we like it.
-The question is, whether world government will be achieved by conquest or consent.”<Ref>James Warburg to U.S. Senate, February 17, 1950.</Ref>
-There is as many forms of Community Law as there are forms of Community.
-We recommend a study of the different forms of law used by men to learn how they play in the roll of communities and how they may alter or even destroy a community or protect it from corruption.
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