Is God above the law?

Yes, God is above the law because he is the law according to the Bible.

Define “the law”.

@rebbel The law how it is meant when someone says that Trump is not above the law, and/or the ten commandments. Can God go somewhere and just smoke someone with lightning, without repercussions. Like Trump said that he can do in 5th avenue. Trump said that he could kill someone in New York’s 5th avenue and get away with it.

No. He may be the ultimate hypocrite, but he must conform to his law as well as that of Man.

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@RedDeerGuy1 I don’t know, I don’t view the ten commandments as law.
And the law of the United States may be not the law that a, let’s say, Nigerian person’s God has to (or not) live by.

@rebbel Ok. Just having fun. Asking weird questions.

@RedDeerGuy1 I’m not mad :-)

Not if the Klingons have anything to say about it.

From a biblical perspective, YHWH broke the Commandment against killing in numerous instances. But Talmudic scholars viewed those as “lawful” killings.

When god ordered Abraham to kill his son, knowing full well he did not intend for him to actually kill him, he lied.

Hillary, Comey , clapper and McCabe regularly brag about criminal activity they have engaged in during the framing of Donald Trump and the exoneration of Hillary Clinton.

No one will touch them. So, where do we get this idea that “no one is above the law”?

Some people are VERY relaxed and libelous as they brag about their crimes.

God is above everything as He is the creator of everything—PERIOD.

@zenvelo There are hundreds of biblical references to how and why someone should be put to death; how can you say the Bible says not to kill?

Murder is explicitly named in the ten commandments, but has nothing to do with killing for committing certain treasonous acts against God, the people, or the law,

I wonder what “treasonous acts” against god all those little children, born and unborn babies and 99.999999% of all animals that god murdered in the flood, committed.

Apparently there was already a revolt among those who should have known better, but chafed at the enforcement of dictatorship. That story fascinated me when I was a kid. I never understood exactly what goals those first revolutionaries had in mind, nor what need the boss had for an army to put down the revolt.

God the Father came down as God the Son & He chose to obey the laws of the land. So, I doubt that God would come back just to break the law.

I find man messing with God’s words to create most of the problems!!!

Usually when we say “no one is above the law” we’re referring to real beings that actually exist.

Isn’t it illegal to stand by while a child gets raped and do absolutely nothing about it?

I was at a salad bar today for lunch. I can tell you, unequivocally, that God was there. He was above the slaw.

Ha ha! :)

Here is a great list of all the people that god murdered, and for what reasons.

“The passage suggests that a mob were interested in homosexual rape in respect of the angels. Lot – the only example of a good man in the city – offered them his virgin daughters instead, but the mob were not interested.” Only a really good man would offer up his virgin daughters to be raped.

^Maybe Lot wasn’t a butt virgin.

Yes, according to Kierkegaard. He concluded god is not moral and doesn’t have to follow his own laws.

It is like Sim City.
The sims have to follow the laws and regulations that you impose upon them, but that does not stop you from unleashing an alien invasion on their arses.

If God committed a crime and was found guilty and sentenced to death then the world would come to an end.

It would?

I think so. The relationship is based on mutual trust and some forgiveness.

He sounds like a total nutcase. Sure glad he doesn’t exist!

Well, didn’t God create the laws of physics so they are self perpetuating? It’s physics that keep us alive in spite of God’s efforts to kill us all.

God is above all.
The Law is a work of man.

Well let’s just say that if anyone or anything is above the law, it would probably be God. Not arrogant humans who seem to think they’re above it.

So are the concepts of right and wrong @filmfann, and morality.

Yes.

I meant they are imaginary human constructs.

If he’s being an ass as a human, then laws apply.

But if he’s being an ass as an immortal deity, I don’t think those laws apply.

If the laws of nature don’t apply, I doubt the laws of man would.

If he can’t obey the law, then he isn’t a god but a tyrant.

@flutherother Thats basically why Satan was cast out, disagreeing with God.

This reminds me of Plato’s Euthyphro Dilemma. There are two possibilities:

Is there an external guide telling what is right or wrong, which determines what God does? In that case, God is an automaton.

Or is God like Trump, believing that what he does is right just because he does it? In that case, God’s actions are arbitrary, and good and evil are meaningless.

Take your pick. Either God is automaton or else good and evil are meaningless.

The flaw in that is the assumption that there is a “God.” That makes three possibilities.

The point of the dilemma is that both alternatives are unacceptable, so there must not be a God. It is the best argument for atheism that I know of.

@KNOWITALL so God is kinda like trump? You disagree with him YOU’RE FIRED!!

No silly, he’s above the clouds.

He is, indeed.

Then what’s the point of having laws?

@Dutchess_III
Worry not, he will get his comeuppance

@Dutchess_III Laws are man made constructs, and have nothing to do with a Supreme Being. Laws are created to keep some order between people, and to also exert control over the powerless.

I know that @zenvelo. Religion was created for the very same reason, to control people to gain power and riches.