Divine will

Right Reason, Natural Law, and Divine Will are convertible phrases. The Will of God is the plan of God according to the Holy Spirit of God and His Right reason. It is the Natural law.

Will of God

The will of God, Wisdom of God, or just divine will is a concept found in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, according to which God's will is the first cause of everything that exists. It is the Divine intelligence behind Natural law that exists independent of the opinion and bias of men and by default is identified often as as Right Reason.

The will of God is not subject to the heart and mind nor the opinions of man.

How do we know what the will of God is?

"And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: 15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them." Matthew 13:14

The Natural law, Law of Nature, and "Divine Will" are convertible phrases, meaning Right reason.
They are unchangable in a cause and effect universe while the "legal systems" which we may call "law" are ever changing because they are only created by men through contracts, covenants, and constitutions by consent.
“Civil Law, Roman Law, and Roman Civil Law are convertible phrases, meaning the same system of jurisprudence.”
There are some who want to turn the Torah which was an attempt to explain the Law of Nature and nature's God into a legal system through private interpretation.
That, of course, is a mistake or sin as Christ tried to explain to the Pharisees the same law as the Logos.
Keys of the Kingdom Natural law part 1 and 2

Keys of the Kingdom Sabbath Hour Natural law part 3

The Law of Nature

The freedom or bondage of men is not always the result of the actions of tyrants but is the product of the habitual rebellion to the Law of Nature, and Nature's God.

While violation of the laws and customs of the governments that men establish for themselves may bring about incarceration, it is the rebellion to that fundamental law that pre existed mankind and is also not subject to the opinions of men that will forever determine the outcome of freedom or bondage for men.

That universal law is the Law of Nature according to cause and effect which takes many forms, such as:

• "As we judge so shall we be judged."

• If we choose to bite one another we are likely to be devoured.

” If we enslave our neighbor through covetous practices we will be made merchandise.

"Man, considered as a creature, must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator... This will of his Maker is called the law of nature... This law of nature...is of course superior to any other... No human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this: and such of them as are valid derive all their force... from this original." - Sir William Blackstone

The Law of Nature, Natural law, Right Reason, Divine Will, the Will of God, the Word of God or the Logos of Christ are often seen as convertible phrases. The "perfect law of liberty" allows the individual to pursue the happiness of the law.

"Where [there is] no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy [is] he." Proverbs 29:18

While that Natural law preexisted mankind, man is subject to it just as he is subject to the laws of physics.

Understanding that Natural law, how it works, and its limitation and powers allows mankind to seek "the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle". Declaration of Independence.

The Law of Nature or Natural Law is defined as, “The divine will, or the dictate of right reason, showing the moral deformity or moral necessity that there is in any act, according to its suitableness or un-suitableness to a reasonable nature. Sometimes used of the law of human reason, in contradistinction to the revealed law, and sometimes of both, in contradistinction to positive law.”

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Cicero

"True law is right reason in agreement with Nature; it is of universal application. Unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish entirely. We cannot be freed from its obligations by senate or people, and we need not look outside ourselves for an expounder or interpreter of it. And there will not be different laws at Rome and Athens, or different laws now and in the future, but one eternal and unchangeable law will be valid for all nations and all times, and there will be one master and ruler, that is God, over us all, for he is the author of this law, its promulgator, and its enforcing judge. Whoever is disobedient is fleeing from himself and denying his human nature, and by reason of this very fact he will suffer the worst punishment." Marco Tullius Cicero, On The Republic (54 BC)

"True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions..."

Cicero (De leg., I, v) tells us "Nos ad justitiam esse natos, neque opinione sed natura constitutum esse jus" (i. e. Justice is natural, not the effect of opinion ).

Cicero went on to say:

"There is in fact a true law - namely right reason - which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men, and is unchangeable and eternal. By its commands this law summons men to the performance of their duties. By its prohibitions, it restrains them from doing wrong. Its commands and prohibitions always influence good men, but are without effect upon the bad.

"To invalidate this law of human legislation is never morally right, nor is it permissible ever to restrict its operation, and to annul it is impossible. Neither the Senate nor the people can absolve us from our obligation to obey this law, and it requires no Sextus Aelms to expound and interpret it. It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow.

"But there will be one law, eternal and unchangeable, binding at all times and upon all peoples; and there will be, as it were, one common master and ruler of mankind, namely God, who is the author of this law, its interpreter, and its sponsor. The man who will not obey it will abandon his better self, and, in denying the true nature of a man will thereby suffer the severest of penalties, though he has escaped all the other consequences which men call punishments."

Aquinas

Aristotle believed the existence of a natural justice that is equally valid everywhere, positive, and is "not existing by people thinking this or that."

Stephen Buckle, a fan of Thomas Aquinas, (1224/25–1274 CE), wrote in 1991 in His "Natural Law and Theory of Property":

"The idea of Natural law is sometimes described as the view that there is an unchanging, normative order that is part of the natural world"

The natural law, according to Aquinas, has certain precepts or dictates by the creator that are knowable to any human by right reason but are unchangeable by him.

“It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.” ~ Thomas Aquinas

Aquinas argues any "rearranges" or legal additions are only, "things for the benefit of human life [which] have been added over and above the natural law, both by Divine law and by human laws" ( ST I-II, 94, 5 ).

By "Eternal Law" Aquinas seems to mean God's rational plan, pattern, and purpose "for all things" which also appears to coincide with the Logos of Christ as the "Word of God".

"Law is an ordination of reason, by the proper authority, for the common good, and promulgated." ~ Thomas Aquinas

"A man's heart is right when he wills what God wills." ~ Thomas Aquinas

Napolitano

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Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, Distinguished Scholar in Law and Jurisprudence at the Mises Institute and Senior Judicial Analyst presented at the 2014 Mises Circle in Costa Mesa, California the difference between Natural Law and Legislative Law resulting from contract and the consent of the people. Time 19:09

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano as a Libertarian willing to have the discussion presented what he sees as the difference between Natural Law and Legislated Law the waving of rights, by actions, contract and/or the consent of the people.

Can you voluntarily surrender access to rights by contract?

Is he right about "We the People"?

Is he right about no one alive today has consented?

Do they steal rights or do we sell them by consent?

Is consent by violation of the law?

Aesop said, “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”

If we elect thieves to steal for us are we not coconspirators in the robbery?

If so, are there other Natural laws that are equal to his example of robbery?

Is there not the same forfeiture of rights with other natural usurpation?

And if by contract where are the terms?

Can darkness be imposed or is it merely desired?

Defined law

Natural law, or the defined law of nature (Latin: lex naturalis), is a system of law that is determined by nature, and so is universal.

Classically, natural law refers to the use of reason to analyze human nature — both social and personal — and deduce binding rules of moral behavior from it.

Natural law is often contrasted with the positive law of a given political community, society, or state.

“3. Law of nature, is a rule of conduct arising out of the natural relations of human beings established by the Creator, and existing prior to any positive precept. Thus it is a law of nature, that one man should not injure another, and murder and fraud would be crimes, independent of any prohibition from a supreme power." Webster.

The Natural law, Law of Nature, and "Divine Will" are convertible phrases, meaning Right reason because "The foundation of this law is placed by the best writers in the will of God, discovered by right reason, and aided by divine revelation; and its principles, when applicable, apply with equal obligation to individuals and to nations." 1 Kent, Comm. 2, note; Id 4, note. See Jus NATURALE.

"Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as it is sometimes called, are the evidence with which his Creator has furnished him .... The moral duties which exist between individual and individual in a state of nature, accompany them into a state of society. their Maker not having released them from those duties on their forming themselves into a nation." Thomas Jefferson.

"The rule and dictate of right reason, showing the moral deformity or moral necessity there is in any act, according to its suitableness or unsuitableness to a reasonable nature." Tayl. Civil Law, 99.

Point of departure

The point of departure for this conception was the Stoic doctrine of a life ordered “according to nature,” which in its turn rested upon the purely supposititious existence, in primitive times, of a “state of nature;” that is, a condition of society in which men universally were governed solely by a rational and consistent obedience to the needs, impulses, and promptings of their true nature, such nature being as yet undefaced by dishonesty, falsehood, or indulgence of the baser passions. In ethics, it consists in practical universal judgments which man himself elicits. These express necessary and obligatory rules of human conduct which have been established by the author of human nature as essential to the divine purposes in the universe and have been promulgated by God solely through human reason...
We understand all laws to be either human or divine, according as they have man or God for their author; and divine laws are of two kinds, that is to say: (1) Natural laws; (2) positive or revealed laws.

A natural law is defined by Burlamaqui to be “a rule which so necessarily agrees with the nature and state of man that, without observing its maxims, the peace and happiness of society can never be preserved.” The knowledge of “natural laws” may be attained merely by the light of right reason by the unbiased observation of human nature. The positive or revealed laws are not founded upon mere human observations but only upon the revealed will of God or knowledge of God.

John Locke

John Locke and the Law of Nature:

“For though the law of nature be plain and intelligible to all rational creatures; yet men, being biased by their interest, as well as ignorant for want of study of it, are not apt to allow of it as a law binding to them in the application of it to their particular cases.” John Locke, English philosopher.

John Locke believed that if a ruler goes against natural law and fails to protect “life, liberty, and property,” then the people are justified in overthrowing the existing state. But if they have already waived their right to property, plotted to take the liberty of others they may also forfeit their life.

But the question must be answered concerning the morals of the lawmaker if “a rule which so necessarily agrees with the nature and state of man that, without observing its maxims, the peace and happiness of society can never be preserved.” The Principles of Natural Law is a primary source for the ideas found expressed in the Declaration of Independence by Jean Jacques Burlamaqui (1694-1748), a Swiss jurist.

John Locke refuted the theory of the divine right of kings and argued that all persons are endowed with natural rights to life, liberty, and property. The only way the people get the right to govern anyone else other than themselves is when the people give their consent. John Locke's social contract held that the obligation to obey civil government under the social contract was conditional upon the protection of the natural rights of each person, including the right to private property.

"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom."-John Locke

The rulers who fail to protect those rights may be removed by the people, even by force if necessary, but the right of property through debt and obligation may limit the powers of the people through reciprocity which can establish hierarchy if the debt is not repaid.

• He who receives the benefit should also bear the disadvantage.
• Cujus est commodum ejus debet esse incommodum.

• He who has the risk has the dominion or advantage.
• Ejus est periculum cujus est dominium aut commodum.

"It is natural for a thing to be unbound in the same way in which it was bound."

• Naturale est quidlibet dissolvi eo modo quo ligatur. Jenk. Cent. 66; Broom, Max. 877.

Locke favored a representative government such as the English Parliament, which had a hereditary House of Lords and an elected House of Commons. But he wanted representatives to be only men of property and business. Consequently, only adult male property owners should have the right to vote.

Quotes

"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom."-John Locke

“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.” Each of us, Locke argued, has “a property in” his or her person, and that property is inalienable, that is, it cannot be transferred to another.

"The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions… (and) when his own preservation comes not in competition, ought he, as much as he can, to preserve the rest of mankind, and may not, unless it be to do justice on an offender, take away, or impair the life, or what tends to the preservation of the life, the liberty, health, limb, or goods of another." -John Locke

Common Law

Although natural law is often conflated with common law, the two are distinct in that natural law is a view that certain rights or values are inherent in or universally cognizable by virtue of human reason or human nature, while common law is the legal tradition whereby certain rights or values are legally cognizable by virtue of judicial recognition or articulation.

• "Many things have been introduced into the common law, with a view to the public good, which are inconsistent with sound reason."
• Multa in jure communi contra rationem disputandi pro communi ultilitate introducta sunt. Co. Litt. 70; Broom's Max. 67; 2 Co. R. 75. See 3 T. R. 146; 7 T. R. 252.

Legal charity was introduced into common law from Lady Godiva to Alexis de Tocqueville and implemented by men from Cain and Nimrod to Herod and FDR.

Natural rights professes itself to be "the presumption of liberty" but while man "biased by their interest, as well as ignorant for want of study of it" may find the covetous practices of the past and present presumably acceptable though it is listed with robbery, fraud, and murder.

Jus naturale

This expression, “natural law,” or jus naturale, was largely used in the philosophical speculations of the Roman jurists of the Antonine age, and was intended to denote a system of rules and principles for the guidance of human conduct which, independently of enacted law or of the systems peculiar to any one people, might be discovered by the rational intelligence of man, and would be found to grow out of and conform to his nature, meaning by that word his whole mental, moral, and physical constitution.

"The law of nature is a dictate of right reason, which points out that an act, according as it is or is not in conformity with rational nature, has in it a quality of moral baseness or moral necessity; and that, in consequence, such an act is either forbidden or enjoined." Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius defining natural law

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"We understand all laws to be either human or divine, according as they have man or God for their author, and divine laws are of two kinds, that is to say: first, natural laws; (and) second, positive or revealed laws." Natural law, and the words adopted by Justice Scott of the Supreme Court of Arkansas in 1850-51, from Borden et. al. v State.

"A natural law is defined ... to be a rule which so necessarily agrees with the nature and state of man, that, without observing its maxims, the peace and happiness of society can never be preserved... These are called natural laws because a knowledge of them may be attained merely by the light of reason, from the fact of their essential agreeableness with the constitution of human nature: while, on the contrary, positive or revealed laws are not founded upon the general constitution of human nature but only upon the will of God; though in other respects such law is established upon very good reason and procures the advantage of those to whom it is sent."

While, many people think and Frank Mobbs states, "if one knows something by faith, it then cannot be an item of natural law". this cannot be true for faith may be reasonable even though we do not know the reason. Even John Paul counters the claim in both Veritatis Splendor and Fides et Ratio.

While the Will of God is the Word of God, which is the Logos of God which is right reason, the discovery of right reason must flow from the source or "Tree of life, and never solely from the mind of man, or Tree of Knowledge alone.

True faith is in the light of reason because it is the result of revelation born of the Holy Spirit without the bias of man because he loves the light more than the darkness.

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Taken from William Blackstone the Introduction to Book 1 of his Commentaries on the Law of England (1756):

"(The) will of (man's) maker is called the law of nature. For as God, when He created matter, and endued it with a principle of mobility, established certain rules for the perpetual direction of that motion. So, when he created man, and endued him with freewill to conduct himself in all parts of life, he laid down certain immutable laws of human nature, whereby that freewill is in some degree regulated and restrained, and gave him also the faculty of reason to discover the purport of those laws....

"These are the eternal, immutable laws of good and evil, to which the creator himself in all his dispensations conforms; and which he has enabled human reason to discover, so far as they are necessary for the conduct of human actions. Such among others are these principles: that we should live honestly, should hurt nobody, and should render to every one his due."

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In his 1901 dictionary, Walter Shumaker proposed this description of natural law:

"NATURAL LAW. The law of nature; the divine will, or the dictate of right reason, showing the moral deformity or moral necessity there is in any act, according to its suitableness or unsuitableness to a reasonable nature. Sometimes used of the law of human reason, in contradistinction to the revealed law, and sometimes of both, in contradistinction to positive law. They are independent of any artificial connections, and differ from mere presumptions of law in this essential respect, that the latter depend on and are a branch of the particular system of jurisprudence to which they belong; but mere natural presumptions are derived wholly by means of the common experience of mankind, without the aid or control of any particular rule of law, but simply from the course of nature and the habits of society. These presumptions fall within the exclusive province of the jury, who are to pass upon the facts."

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Justice Nation of the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench in Re Indian Residential Schools:

"Natural Law is ... a code of rules which originates with the divine, nature or reason in contrast to the laws people make.

"Although the cases cited by the Plaintiffs have considered natural law in interpreting legislation, that does not convert natural law into a recognized part of the law in either Alberta or Canada. Nor does it create a positive duty on the Defendant Canada.

"Consequently, even if I assume all of the pleadings to be true and apply the most liberal reading thereto, I cannot conclude that a breach of natural law by itself constitutes a cause of action."

The "will of God" Appears

The phrase "will of God" appears some 23 times in the New Testament and is first used by Christ in Mark 3:35 "For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother."

This emphases on being a doer of the word of God which is an expression of the "will of God" is an essential part of the the doctrine of Jesus and the Bible.

Acts 13:36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:

Romans 1:10 Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.

Romans 8:27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Romans 15:32 That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.

1 Corinthians 1:1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

2 Corinthians 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the [[will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:

2 Corinthians 8:5 And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.

Galatians 1:4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:

Ephesians 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

Ephesians 6:6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

Colossians 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother,

Colossians 4:12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

1 Thessalonians 5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

2 Timothy 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,

Hebrews 10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

1 Peter 2:15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

1 Peter 3:17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

1 Peter 4:2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

1 Peter 4:19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

1 John 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

We also see the phrase the "will of the Lord" in Acts 21:14 "And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done." and in Ephesians 5:17 "Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is." This is just another way of expressing the idea of the "will of God" because the father and son are one.

We also see "will of my Father" in Matthew 7:21 "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven." and in Matthew 12:50 "For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother." And of course by reason and observation anyone not doing the will of the father is not a true believer nor do they love Christ even if they say they do.

There are other verses where the idea of the will of God is clearly expressed as divinely important:

Matthew 18:14 Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

John 1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 4:34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

John 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

John 6:38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

John 6:40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

And even in the Old Testament we see in Ezra 7:18 And whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren, to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do after the will of your God.

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