There are other laws, however, which proceed not so much from the nature of God as from the will of God—these are termed positive law. Consider, for example, the rite of circumcision. God commanded Abraham to circumcise his children as the sign of the covenant between himself and God. Could God have chosen some other rite to serve as the sign of the covenant? Well, yes, He could have. There is no necessary connection between the sign of circumcision and God’s nature.
