Thursday, May 13, 2010

The 7 Noahide Commandments can be understood as saying to the nations, "Do not repeat the original sin".  Accepting this can lead to an embrace of these commandments as universal commandments.  I would ask how it could be made meaningful to the contemporary Western mind to say, "Do not repeat the original sin".  Here is an example of how this  might be done:


  1. Do not think or act without fear, as if you alone or you together as human beings were in essence the only thing that exists or even had the highest intelligence.
  2. Do not speak aggressively to defame the one who is able to command you to be humble and restrain yourselves and know that you are not able to judge or govern all things.
  3. Do not harden your heart and choose to nurture your own arrogance rather than to nurture the life of another person, whose soul is from the source of your soul, so that you do violence to them by any means and they perish.
  4. Do not take advantage of the disadvantage of others in the prison of this world, where all are under the sentence of death and are vulnerable to varying conditions of distress and changing needs for guardedness.
  5. Do not make commitments to conspire to intimacies that are outside the boundaries of the corporate nature of Humanity into which every human being is born and which is the source of their life and health.
  6. Do not create or participate in economies of gluttony on any scale which create forces of cruelty to all creatures, forces which feed upon themselves until their mouths drip eventually even with the blood of the living.

7.  Establish courts of sincerity where restorative justice is pursued in the fear of the Supreme Judge, seeking for all human society to find Him and know Him through the practice of those laws that would teach the way of repentance from the original human sin of spiritual arrogance.  Practice Biblical Restorative Justice, seeking eye to eye justice in all the earth.