Thoughts on Law

I have been reading in 2 Nephi 2, Alma 42 and Alma 12 regarding law.  

Everybody coming to earth is give some level of law.  Some good law. Some bad law.  We sometimes get sucked into the bad law not evening knowing it.  We call evil good and good evil.  But, regardless, we all have a level of law.  We are given more law as we become enlightened enough to live it.  For example, there are laws  surrounding the establishment of Zion.  We are not ready to live those laws (apparently, as a church). 

Another example:  We have been given the Sermon on the Mount.  We all have read it but most of us barely understand it.  We don’t get it.  We haven’t been enlightened.

As a person doesn’t live certain laws those laws fall away.

Law is a good thing.  They are gifts from God as rewards for obedience to previous laws.

With all this in mind, everyone has some level of law to be judged by.  God doesn’t judge a person for his mental inability to obey a law.  He doesn’t judge a person that is incapable of living law.  He does, in the end, judge those who have been given law.  He does this by having us analyze our deeds in this life.  He does this by having us evaluate our level of seeking (desire for growth).  If we are justified for not  being able to live certain laws because of our upbringing, that will be obvious and no punishment can be affixed.  God will judge a righteous judgment.

To be dead spiritually is to  fight against God.  One can revive anytime during this life.  It seems to be more difficult as a spirit because if you made intentional choices in life to go against God and decided never to repair them (as demonstrated by evil deeds), then reparations are apparently more difficult.  Again, God will judge a person’s ability, desire, etc.  An evil man might be so  programmed by his evil environment, that God could be more merciful.  A victim, might be so conditioned and controlled (externally or internally) that he may seem capable but really isn’t. 

But that’s where seeking comes into play.  As one seeks, grace repairs the damage (or weakness).  If God chooses to not to repair it after repeated asking, then he is okay with that person going through life a little damaged.  That is no longer that person’s problem to worry about.