The Moral Law
Natural Law
Law and Gospel · 6 verses
God has inscribed the substance of His moral law upon the human conscience, rendering all humanity without excuse for transgression. This natural revelation, though obscured by sin and insufficient for salvation, nonetheless establishes universal moral accountability. Even those who have never heard the written law possess an innate awareness of fundamental moral distinctions, demonstrating that God's law is written on the heart of His image-bearers.
Scripture References
“For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)”
“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:”
“Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.”
“That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.”
“And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”
“For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.”