The law of Moses, which in my theology is the law of God, is upright and beautiful. It is "perfect ... true and righteous altogether" (Psalm 19:7-9), but it does nothing to create the state that it requires. There is not one enabling word in its arsenal. When Moses came down from the mountain, he came down with the truth but not the means with which to apply it, save by suppression through the instrumentality of judgment.
