RELIGION AND SOCIETY

Religion and Society ~ 411 ~ revealed laws have been rejected in favor of manmade laws, but in the course of an experiment which lasted over 200 years, the man-made laws have proved a failure, and enlightened opinion is again veering back towards revealed law as being eternal in character. This particular quality can only be grasped when we believe that its source lies in an Eternal Mind rather than in a human mind. If we have not known where to allocate the power to make laws, it is because, as true religion tells us, it is God’s prerogative and His alone to do so. He is the true Sovereign. No man has the right to rule over others and order their lives. Only God—man’s Creator and natural Lord—has that power. According to revealed law, freedom of the individual is subject to divine command. They ask: Have we any part in the cause? Say: The cause belongeth wholly to God (3:154). The Renaissance—the great intellectual revolution which took place in Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries—regarded this concept of freedom as little better than slavery. It proclaimed