Since When Did God’s Law Exist?

By Julio Cesar Prado

Have you ever wondered what would happen to us if the laws of nature changed? For example, if the law of gravity failed, imagine what would happen? We’d disappear into space! Or if this force, gravity, suddenly doubled, we would even have difficulty lifting our feet off the ground because the pressure would be too strong. Reason itself tells us that from the creation of the universe, there must have been unchanging laws and principles to direct all created things, from the sun, moon, stars, and planets, to the most insignificant ones.

Science has discovered that the atom is one of the most perfectly balanced things in the universe. He faithfully obeys the laws that govern his invisible existence. The slightest deviation from these physical laws would mean the disaster of our world and the universe.

The star system is amazingly perfect. The astronomer, the man of science, lives in awe of the perfection of the universe. God is your author. His laws are perfect, just as His works are.

For the well-being and harmony of the universe, the Creator formulated perfect, eternal laws and never altered them. God is unchangeable. His laws are everlasting.

“For I am the Lord, I change not.” Malachi 3:6.

James emphasizes the immutability of God:

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” James 1:17.

If God changed, even if it was just the slightest, He would cease to be perfect. If His laws, physical or moral, changed, they would not be perfect, and in such cases, anarchy and confusion would take the place of order and harmony. This is exactly what happened on our planet, with the entry of sin, that is, rebellion against God’s law.

The law of God is perfect. Our perfect God could not enact laws that were not perfect:

“The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.” Psalm 19:7.

“Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.” Romans 7:12.

The divine law, a reflection of God’s character, cannot be changed just as the laws that govern the physical world cannot be changed. Since when does the law of God exist? Long before the world began. When our first parents sinned, they violated the very principles of divine law. Scripture says:

“For where no law is, there is no transgression.” Romans 4:15.

“Sin is the transgression of the law.” 1 John 3:4.

Long before God wrote His law on tablets of stone, it was known and obeyed. Abraham, for example, knew the law of God:

“Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.” Genesis 26:5.

The law was already known, but now God wanted to give it in writing so that no one would apologize, saying that they had no knowledge of it, and that His will would be known to all. When the law was proclaimed, “Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly” (Exodus 19:18).

There was a special reason for this smoke and mountain tremor: God wanted to impress His people in such a way that they would never forget what he had to give them. For the solemn occasion, the people should make a preparation: wash, humble themselves, fast, pray, so that they would be purified of all sin; and finally, they were to sanctify themselves.

In the morning of the third day, there was a loud sound of a trumpet, and Moses led the people to the foot of the mountain. They stayed, but Moses went up the mountain, and God spoke His Ten Commandments to Moses and wrote them with His own finger (Exodus 31:18). Exodus 20:3-17 contains the commandments of God’s law.

About: Julio Cesar Prado is a journalist.