The Natural Law Part V A

God and Reason

God is a designer. According to Aquinas this is one of the reasons we know him to be a person, has an intellect, and is spiritual. An animal will build because of instinct but has no concept in regards to abstract ideas, or building based on abstract ideas.

The concept that man has a ‘spirit’ means he is immortal. Included in that spirit are some of the things we have talked about before such as creativity, free will, reason, the ability to see outside of oneself, i.e., to reflect. Death is the breaking up of something into its parts. At death the body separates from the soul, eventually decomposing into the basic of elements (sometime remind me to tell you about one of my Bio professors and his yacht named PSNOTCH). A spiritual thing cannot die for it has no parts. The one thing that the autonomous individual cannot do is put him or herself out of existence.

Evolution? We are not some indiscriminate and meaningless product of evolution. Each one of us, and it should give us great joy, is the result of a thought from our Creator, our Manufacturer if you will. Each one of us is willed, loved and is necessary. We are body and soul.

Evolution is about the development of parts, specifically in our case, the human body. It is not proven that the human body developed from an amoeba, which sprang from two chemicals joined together through a bolt of lightning. The soul cannot evolve. It has to be the product of the immediate, the creative thought of God. The human soul has no parts and because it has no parts it cannot evolve.

Natural Law is given to each of us so that we can achieve our goal, the purpose for our very being. For and to this purpose the soul is eternal and will live forever.

The only basis for asserting a human being's transcendency rights against the state is that we are created in the image and likeness of God. Why? Because every state has and will go out of existence. The soul is the opposite, eternal, and will live forever.