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Bad Laws and Good Laws




What is the difference between a good law and a bad law?

 

No, this is not the setup for a joke. 

A bad law oppresses people. 

Bad laws put unnecessary burdens on people. 

Bad laws prey upon widows, orphans, and the poor. 

Good laws, by contrast, help those who bad laws hurt. 

That is the difference according to Isaiah's prophetic word. 

Isaiah 10:1-4

Woe to those who make unjust laws,
to those who issue oppressive decrees,
to deprive the poor of their rights
and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,
making widows their prey
and robbing the fatherless.
What will you do on the day of reckoning,
when disaster comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?
Where will you leave your riches?
Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives
or fall among the slain.

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,
his hand is still upraised. 

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