Excerpt form A HANDBOOK OF BIBLE LAW by Charles A. Weisman
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All law and order, all society, rests upon some legal authority. There must be a source of foundation for the laws and jurisprudence of a nation. All different modes of law and justice have been devised, yet after thousands of years of struggle along these lines the world has failed to find any system of law and justice which can compare with that which is taught in the Bible.

Human legal systems come and go and are continually in the process of reform and change, but the eternal principles of justice, truth and righteousness established by God for man are unchanged. They have endured the test of time by way of their proven effectiveness, Thus, all equitable codes of jurisprudence are founded upon Biblical teachings and principles, and indeed must conform to them, as Sir William Blackstone well says:

"No human laws are of any validity, if contrary to the law of God" (1 Bl. Comm. 40).

Blackstone further stipulates that...

"Human laws are only declaratory of, and act in subordination to divine laws; and should any law command us to do what divine law has prohibited, we are bound to transgress that human law." (1 Bl. Comm. 42-43).

Man's observance of divine law is essential in his moral conduct, economic well-being, and social order, just as the physical laws are essential in an orderly universe.

The Bible contains those precepts and commands which constitute the legal and moral authority to guide human conduct. There is no doubtful authority contained in the words: "Thus saith the LORD." This is the authority all law and justice must be founded upon.