Lesson Two | The Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God — Transcript

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1. 0:01[Music]
2. 0:07in the education business we learn
3. 0:10something that's really wonderful to
4. 0:12know we like it a lot and it is that
5. 0:14there are some big words some very
6. 0:16fundamental words there's a number of
7. 0:18them education is one of them by the way
8. 0:21and you can spend your life figuring out
9. 0:23what they mean good is my favorite word
10. 0:27about that but another highly favorite
11. 0:30word by me is the word nature it's a big
12. 0:34old word it means a lot of things and
13. 0:37yet those things are connected it means
14. 0:41a little seed and it means the whole
15. 0:45cosmos it means everything
16. 0:47how do those meanings come to be
17. 0:50associated with that one word what is
18. 0:53the general rule first paragraph well
19. 0:58it's the fact that because of equality
20. 1:00and because all men are created equal
21. 1:02under the laws of nature they have the
22. 1:04right to hear the laws of nature and
23. 1:07nature's God isn't that the first
24. 1:10Authority cited in this right and
25. 1:16Christian over here mentions two other
26. 1:18places where God is mentioned in the
27. 1:20Declaration what were they they were at
28. 1:24the that where we talked about endowed
29. 1:27with inalienable rights by their creator
30. 1:29as well ste and when we pledged to each
31. 1:31other by the name of our divine
32. 1:33providence divine providence creator
33. 1:37laws of nature and of nature's God can
34. 1:40you think of another
35. 1:48No so the answer is supreme judge of the
36. 1:54world toward the end so what branch of
37. 2:01government would be the maker of the
38. 2:04laws of nature and of nature's God
39. 2:08legislative analyst lawmaker right God
40. 2:12is a lawmaker right what branch of
41. 2:16government would be supreme judge of the
42. 2:19world
43. 2:22yeah what branch of government would be
44. 2:26divine providence and the creator would
45. 2:32be like a founder right like a
46. 2:34constitution maker that's very
47. 2:37interesting that God appears in these
48. 2:40guises and these images the branches of
49. 2:44government when one of the charges in
50. 2:47the middle of the Declaration of
51. 2:48Independence is that the king who's the
52. 2:51executive branch has interfered with the
53. 2:54legislature and the judges
54. 2:56he's bended the legislature he has
55. 2:59removed judges he is interfered with the
56. 3:03trial by jury the king is trying to be
57. 3:07all three branches but the person who
58. 3:11can be trusted to be all three branches
59. 3:13is actually named in the document only
60. 3:18God right it's a very plain isn't it and
61. 3:24if you think about it for a minute he
62. 3:27might need an authority like that if
63. 3:30he's declaring a rebellion because of
64. 3:33the source of the law up to that moment
65. 3:36had been the king in Parliament and
66. 3:38they're saying no more
67. 3:41so King and Parliament have not passed a
68. 3:44law that says you can cut off from us
69. 3:46whenever you want to if they had they
70. 3:49could have used their authority but they
71. 3:52were saying no so they needed some
72. 3:54higher authority laws of nature
73. 4:00what's nature me it means birth birth
74. 4:06okay explain that
75. 4:08so we basically all come to be at some
76. 4:14point or in some setting and as we come
77. 4:17to be and as we grow mature we have some
78. 4:21sort of essence and to how as people we
79. 4:24live our lives or as other creatures
80. 4:28that we are you talking about all living
81. 4:31things right
82. 4:34correct not rocks and trees well trees
83. 4:38not not rocks because they don't grow
84. 4:41right mm-hmm
85. 4:42so what you're saying is that living
86. 4:47things have a way of coming to be and
87. 4:51they're born somehow right eggs you know
88. 4:55whatever human beings by the way are
89. 4:56very unusual in the way they're born
90. 4:58they take an incredibly long time to
91. 5:01grow up wait until you have children and
92. 5:05they will punish you as you have
93. 5:07punished your parents right I mean I'm
94. 5:09in the college business guy and look at
95. 5:11the age of all of you right and if I
96. 5:14call your parents they will be
97. 5:15frightened right because I'm the
98. 5:17president maybe something's wrong right
99. 5:19but if you were some other kind of beast
100. 5:21they wouldn't know who you are anymore
101. 5:24right child-raising is a big deal for us
102. 5:28and yet we have discretion over it in
103. 5:32case these point is this word nature is
104. 5:34the Latin word for birth and the first
105. 5:37meaning of the term nature is how does a
106. 5:39living living thing come to be but it
107. 5:43has to mean more than that right because
108. 5:45as he's pointing out things grow living
109. 5:48things grow this growth this term birth
110. 5:53the Torah means the process of beginning
111. 5:56and growth by which a living thing comes
112. 5:59to be but living things also decay and
113. 6:02to distinguish the moment when they
114. 6:04cease to grow and they begin to decay
115. 6:06you need some conception of what they
116. 6:09are when they're fully themselves
117. 6:10completely and fully themselves when
118. 6:12they have realized their
119. 6:14nature it's one reason we love to say at
120. 6:15the college we're helping them to become
121. 6:18human beings they just haven't made it
122. 6:20yet yeah your potential human beings of
123. 6:22course and you desert for a long era you
124. 6:25know on the best day an actual human
125. 6:28being but you know on the worst day I'm
126. 6:31not one either right so this nature
127. 6:35means us becoming fully what we are now
128. 6:39what would you mean by a law of nature
129. 6:43kind of rules that govern how things
130. 6:46should operate and I think one of the
131. 6:51problems that the founders had was that
132. 6:54the king was trying to control all laws
133. 6:58of nature as himself and really they had
134. 7:01a fundamental problem with that because
135. 7:03it wasn't their actual creator you can
136. 7:05make it specific right this that's good
137. 7:07that's very good Steve and you could
138. 7:09make it specific this way too because if
139. 7:13we say that a thing has a way of growing
140. 7:15well under what conditions does it grow
141. 7:19well like plants need Sun and you know
142. 7:24sequoia trees need space whatever makes
143. 7:28it thrive that's the law governing it
144. 7:32and the laws of nature and of nature's
145. 7:35God they're referring there to this God
146. 7:38that appears three other times right the
147. 7:41one responsible for the order of all
148. 7:44things and also the great majority of
149. 7:48them the one to whom they pray and
150. 7:52expect them to protect the revolution
151. 7:55that they're waging not all of them
152. 7:59thought that God was so but many did and
153. 8:03we're going to learn as we go that it
154. 8:04was a specific purpose of the United
155. 8:07States of America to be the first
156. 8:09country to make a complete and full and
157. 8:12happy home for people and thought both
158. 8:16ways about
159. 8:17because their idea was those whom
160. 8:21Christians who in great majority of them
161. 8:23their idea was you're never going to get
162. 8:26to heaven because somebody passed a law
163. 8:29saying you had to do
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