[Please recall, I ponder reliability to Genesis 1:26-28, NIV, “in our image so they may rule . . . earth”. The-creator-God’s may implies can. Each person may& can choose to pursue order on earth. Happy is the person whose actions the-God images.
“May
rule” is not equivalent to free-will, which accommodates no-rule, or chaos.
Necessity requires rule, so those who choose free-will get ruled.
I
perceive that John 1:1 asserts that Jesus is God. Further, Matthew 5:48 asserts
that a human-being can pursue unique perfection that mimics Jesus’ perfection. No
other entity can pursue a person’s perfection. Also, Matthew 25:41-45
expresses that citizens who do not treat fellow-citizens as unique images of
Jesus accept neither Genesis 1:26-28 nor its mystery-creator. Each person may
accept the-mystery-of-God and yet pursue Jesus’ civic guidance.
Happy
is the person who joins with fellow-citizens to pursue& promote
the-civic-Jesus. That is, reliability to Jesus' civic-suggestions to the-good
to each generation – “to ourselves and our Posterity” quoting the preamble to
the U.S. Constitution. “Civic” means responsible in human connections&
transactions.]
Exodus 20
22 Then
the Lord said to Moses, “Tell
the Israelites this: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you
from heaven: 23 Do not make any gods to be
alongside me; do not make for yourselves gods of silver or gods of gold.
24 “‘Make
an altar of earth for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship
offerings, your sheep and goats and your cattle. Wherever I cause my
name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you. 25 If
you make an altar of stones for me, do not build it with dressed stones, for
you will defile it if you use a tool on it. 26 And do not go up to my altar on
steps, or your private parts may be exposed.’
Exodus 21
21 “These are the laws you are to set before them:
Hebrew Servants
2 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six
years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying
anything. 3 If he comes alone, he is to go free
alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him. 4 If
his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall
belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.
5 “But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master
and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’ 6 then
his master must take him before the judges [Or translation “before God”]. He shall take him to the
door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.
7 “If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she
is not to go free as male servants do. 8 If she
does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has
no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her. 9 If
he selects her for his son,
he must grant her the rights of a daughter. 10 If
he marries another woman,
he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital
rights. 11 If he does not provide her with these
three things, she is to go
free, without any payment of money. [This notion negates the God who rendered such a law.
There’s no civic-integrity in these laws.]
Personal Injuries
12 “Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow
is to be put to death. 13 However, if it is not
done intentionally, but God
lets it happen, they are to flee to a place I will designate. 14 But
if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately, that person is to be
taken from my altar and put to death.
15 “Anyone who attacks their father or mother
is to be put to death.
16 “Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to
death, whether the victim has been sold or is still in the
kidnapper’s possession.
17 “Anyone who curses their father or mother is to
be put to death.
18 “If people quarrel and one person hits another
with a stone or with their fist and the victim does not die but is
confined to bed, 19 the one who struck the blow
will not be held liable if the other can get up and walk around outside with a
staff; however, the guilty party must pay the injured person for any loss of
time and see that the victim is completely healed.
20 “Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished
if the slave dies as a direct result, 21 but they
are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.
22 “If people are
fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely [Translation
“or has a miscarriage] but there is no serious injury,
the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the
court allows. 23 But if there is serious injury,
you are to take life for life, 24 eye for eye,
tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn
for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise. [Infant for
infant?]
26 “An owner who hits a male or female slave in the
eye and destroys it must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye. 27 And
an owner who knocks out the tooth of a male or female slave must let the slave
go free to compensate for the tooth.
28 “If a bull gores a man or woman to death, the
bull is to be stoned to death, and its meat must not be eaten. But the
owner of the bull will not be held responsible. 29 If,
however, the bull has had the habit of goring and the owner has been warned but
has not kept it penned up and it kills a man or woman, the bull is to be
stoned and its owner also is to be put to death. 30 However,
if payment is demanded, the owner may redeem his life by the payment of
whatever is demanded. 31 This law also applies if
the bull gores a son or daughter. 32 If the bull
gores a male or female slave, the owner must pay thirty shekels[f] of silver to the master of the slave, and the bull is to be
stoned to death.
33 “If anyone uncovers a pit or digs one and
fails to cover it and an ox or a donkey falls into it, 34 the
one who opened the pit must pay the owner for the loss and take the dead animal
in exchange.
35 “If anyone’s bull injures someone else’s bull
and it dies, the two parties are to sell the live one and divide both the money
and the dead animal equally. 36 However, if it was
known that the bull had the habit of goring, yet the owner did not keep it
penned up, the owner must pay, animal for animal, and take the dead animal
in exchange.
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