True Foundation of Law

Dear Editor,

Is it illegal to restrict the hospital privileges of a surgeon to prevent harmful, specialized cross-gender surgeries? This question is pertinent to our local Whitman Hospital and Medical Clinics.

What is the true foundation of law? Are current legal systems the result of billions of years of random, undirected iterations of ideas advanced by evolutionary forces resulting in highly refined systems, which will one day perfectly address the evil that plagues us? No.

Quoting from the ESV translation of God’s Word, the following law started it all, “...but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat...” (Genesis 2:17). The transgression of this simple law by our first parents brought about sin and death and caused the need for additional laws to be instituted by God for our benefit. Another law from God’s Word says, “A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.” (Deuteronomy 22:5). Jesus, Son of God and Savior from the results of sin for those who place their trust in Him, provides this instruction, “Temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come! It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.” (Luke 17:1-2).

Kevin Akesson,

Colfax