The Bible On Trial

Contract Law~

When my brother Don was alive he was a graduate of USC Law school, an became an Attorney-at-law (Bar certified in California) with a specialty in Contract Law. He started in Commercial contracts, and then became an assistant city attorney for Pasadena Ca., and then moved to Fresno and became THE Assistant City Attorney. Following 8 years in Civic law, he then became a partner in one of the largest Law Firms in Fresno, and worked as the defacto city attorney under contract to a dozen or so municipalities surrounding Fresno. There was not a single thing that I know of that he didn't know about Contract Law. He also taught Constitutional Law (Con-law) and Contract Law as a local private University in Fresno. He knew his stuff.

He had a particular perspective on the 'law' and his understanding as to why Jesus had to come to the earth. We talked about this on a number of occasions, and it became a 'bone-of-contention between us. Eventually, I had to back off, and let him go with his own understanding.

His belief was that God had two contracts with mankind; one in force up until his 'sacrifice on the cross', the other that was put in place AFTER his resurrection, and negated the first contract. This first contract was under the Law of God, and was defined (as do we now at STM) in the Contract stated in the 10 Commandments. His understanding was that this contract was basically 'Obey or die'! His view of God was that God loved humans so much that He had to change the first Contract to take this 'love' into account, and make it possible for all humans to be saved through the 'contract law of Grace'. No amount of 'proof' on my part could convince him otherwise. He never saw the apostle Paul as a threat to salvation.

This is where we are today; all humanily will soon have to decide whether to abide by the original Contract for salvation, or the second.