This was about as good a definition of Torah, the law that you're going to get. The only thing to add was this explanation in 1John 3:4 KJV Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
Well, you're not wrong on those things. My own answer is this:
Cold is the absence of heat. Cold has no source. Heat has a source.
Evil is the absence of good. Evil has no source. Good has a source.
And another for you Magenta!
Procol Harum - latin for "far from these things" it's as if this song was piped into my mother's belly before I was borned. Leave it to the Danes to give it the dignity it deserves....
Magenta! For you:
Here's a mellowed out Jethro Tull. No twirling a flute like a baton. No eye bulging faces. No RRRRift's on the flute and windy flute jazz....just a song called Life Is A Long Song.....
Can I ask something about all that sourdough bread? How do you keep up with all that starter? Do you use the block starter? I can't imagine how much starter and time it would take to make as much as you do.
I think what you're saying is true, but not necessarily because life is more complicated now. I think it's because we live in a kind of autonomous culture with ill defined borders. The Israelites in the OT lived under the law of God and Mosiac law was so imbedded into their hearts that sin...