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Under the Law it is necessary to always wear white clothes as commanded in the
Law (Eccl 9:8). Heads should be covered by all ointments (Eccl 9:8).

Under the Law it would be difficult to watch the news on television (Isaiah 33:15).

Under the Law it is forbidden to approach a menstrous woman (Ezek 18:6, 22:10).

Genocide & Ethnic Cleansing

God gives all life (Gen 1:1, Eccl 12:7). God kills millions every year (Gen 2:17,
Deut 32:39, Mat 10:28, Luke 12:5). God sometimes commands genocide, to those
under the Law, as this is an inevitable necessity of separation (Deut 7:3-6). The
reason incidentally that the cattle of the defeated enemy were to be killed was that
these were offered to the false gods of the people or dedicated to them and so were
under a spirutual contamination or curse (Deut 7:5-6, 12:3, 13:15, Judg 2:2-3). The
futility of wanting to be God is that it requires acting like God but Man did not
obey the commandment of genocide in God's absolutist way (Deut 20:17, Josh
17:13, Judges 1:28). God has the blood of all the dead on his hands (Gen 2:17,
Deut 32:39) and by His blood (Heb 9:12-28, 1 John 1:7, Rev 1:5) are all the dead
finally redeemed to eternal life (1 Cor 12:3, Phil 2:10-11).

To want to be God requires separation from that which is not God and God is
absolutely distinct from that which is not God (Gen 1:1, Num 23:19, Judg 2:2-3,
Job 9:32, Hos 11:9, John 1:18, Rom 1:25). The Law is allowed by God but was
conceived in sin (Gen 2:17, 3:22, Rom 3:10, 20) and thus means death to all under
it (Gen 2:17, Rom 3:10, 6:23). To come under the Law is sin against the primary
will of God (Gen 2:17, 3:22, Rom 3:20), once under it to obey it is not sin (Rom
7:7, 12). Obeying the Law is, as a secondary will, a necessary curse (Gen 3:14, 17,
Gal 3:10), just, and not a sin (Rom 7:7, 12). The Law sometimes commands a
primary will, under the Law, and sometimes a secondary will, under the law, that
are mutually contradictory (Ex 20:13, Deut 13:15, Rev 13:10). This is because
God’s standard is based on His nature and, for example, he had to die as well as be
life (Rev 1:18).

War & Violence

The use or threat of lethal force or imprisonment is against the Law (Lev 24:17,
Isaiah 58:9, Mat 5:39, 44, Rom 12:17-21, 2 Cor 10:4, 1 John 3:4, Rev 13:10). All
deliberate killing of humans is evil and murder under the Law, even in war and
even in a so-called ‘just’ war (Gen 9:6, Lev 24:17, Mark 15:7).