Sunday, January 22, 2006
NOAHIDE LAWS AND NATURAL LAW
David Novak of the University of Toronto offers this comparison of Noahide Laws to Natural Law:
Novak went on to discuss the Noahide laws as the most fundamental of all commonalities between Judaism and any gentile nation on earth. The acceptance of the Noahide law is really the acceptance of natural law. It applies to all humankind. Jews can very well see in Christians those human beings outside the people of Israel who have understood these truths of natural law best. In addition, a community that acknowledges the supreme Lordship of God is a community Jews can respect in principle.
Since the Noahide Laws are Jewish, and since at least some Jewish groups (all of them?) do not consider a Trinitarian God to fit into the formula for the worship of one God which is one of the Noahide Laws, what happens to Christians if the Noahide Laws are made the law of the land?
