p. 16 | God's Law Changed: Human Alterations and Dependence

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 16, 1896

God's Law Changed: Human Alterations and Dependence

“God’s Law Changed.”—How flippantly men talk of change in God’s law and Sabbath. It was changed by the apostles, or by the church, etc. And now we have ministers and great organizations telling us that it is the duty of the governments of earth, not only to enforce God’s law, but to enforce the change in the law—man’s interpretation—as God’s law. What this means is well illustrated by an incident in the history of the development of the dependent Irish Parliament about 200 years ago, concerning a certain law of the imperial government, which the Irish Parliament presumed to tamper with. Says Macaulay in his “History of England,” chapter 23:—

“The Irish lords and commons had presumed not only to reenact it but with alterations. The alterations were indeed small, but the alteration even of a letter was tantamount to a declaration of independence.”

He says further:—

“The colony in Ireland was emphatically a dependency; a dependency, not merely by common laws of the realm, but by the nature of things. It was absurd to claim independence for a community which could not cease to be dependent without ceasing to exist.”

But a declaration of independence meant rebellion. How much more so with human governments, especially when professedly Christian. To change God’s law and to enact it as his law is antichristian.