Today in Sunday school my class spoke of Situational Ethics and Relativity, within the context of David fleeing from Saul. I have heard discussions on the matter before; in fact, it was a topic of study in my General Education class during my first year of university. Several reasons supporting and several others rejecting the premise that one may breach certain Biblical laws have been put forth, and each is interesting and valid in aiding the interpretation of Biblical morality, but they all tend to address the surface of the matter and fail to go into much depth. Not that they are necessarily wrong in failing to do so, if it may indeed even be called a failure, which I believe it is not, for each provides another light by which one may examine a different aspect or side of the matter.

However, these affirmations or rejections all assume or at least act as if that the laws found in the Bible are foundational, and that there are no underlying roots which actually provide the reasons and basis for these laws. Lying is certainly a sin, but surely there must be a reason for that; God is not an unreasonable God. (He may be beyond human understanding, but He is not unreasonable or irrational. Of course, even this is to some extent an assumption or premise upon which I shall base my discussion) God merely saying that something is a sin is enough of a reason to believe that it is a sin, most certainly, but it is not the reason that it is a sin. Due to our knowledge of God and of sin it now becomes our responsibility to follow His law, since to go against God is a sin, and so for this reason it is a sin merely because God informs us that it is against His will. But even this is dependent upon the fact that it is a sin to disobey God, which must be founded on other principles.

Part of the basis for this is the association or analogy of science into the matter. Observation of the universe with human eyes alone yields little knowledge of more intricate workings of matter. From a common viewpoint and under calm conditions all things appear to be fairly static. Objects do not regularly dissemble themselves nor alter in form. But at the molecular level objects are far from static and unchanging, for molecules shift minutely but rapidly, so that at a molecular level objects are far from fixed and unchanging. This effect becomes more pronounced at the atomic level, for electrons fly around nucleii at rapid speeds and atoms themselves are constantly in motion, or a state of rapid vibration. But this is not the final known level On a more minute level quarks and gluons and various other subatomic particles interact and dance about. Thus many scientific humans know at least four levels of the nature of physical objects: The superficial level, the molecular level, the atomic level, and the subatomic level. This is not all that exists, however, for superstructures also exist; humans have created transistors which are comprised of several units known beyond the molecular level, and beyond this CPU's exist which are made of several thousand or million transistors. Greater complexity can be found at any level, whether sub-molecular or super-molecular, or in other words, things are more complex however one looks at them, whether from examining their smaller and more intricate workings or from observing their workings as larger units. One may derive from this that because God is the creator of the entire universe, then all elements within it should be similar and holistic, so that one may at least conjecture similarities between science and morality or theology. Basically, because matter is far more complex than it appears on the surface, so is morality and theology. Physical objects appear simple and somewhat static, but far deeper and more complex laws and underworkings exist; ie there are underlying principles which dictate the superficial appearance and nature of physical objects. It is also so with morality and theology; they are far more complex and intricate than they appear on the superficial level.

The preceding paragraph is more of an analogy than a proof. Even so its premises should be examined carefully, and critically, to determine whether any proof may exist of them.

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