The Flesh Made Word
What would happen if we were to house inside legality an idea which contradicts reality
Daniel Moody • The Flesh Made Word
What if Adam, having been given by God the capacity to use language to give names to objects in reality, now after the Fall, being disconnected from the creator of reality, begins naming immaterial “objects” of his own corrupted desires and therefore constructing an illusory existence maintained only by his will, but having no reality in the physical world that God has created. Adam would then have created, only in language, a universe of illusions with language having no objective references. After creating this universe of illusions, Adam then desires to live in it rather than in the world of language that actually corresponds to the physical reality created by God. Thus the word concupiscence derived from the Latin “concupere" to be very desirous of." Adam and his progeny desire to live in a “world” of words disconnected from the reality created by God. The effect of Original Sin.
Making Legally Possible The Physically Impossible Makes Legally Impossible The Physically Possible
Daniel Moody • The Flesh Made Word
To illustrate the situation we need only think back to our bathroom mirror. When we looked in the bathroom mirror we saw a second glass of water. Now imagine looking into our bathroom mirror and seeing not a second glass of water but the words Glass, Of and Water. Imagine seeing not our face but the word Face. It is a strange thought, is it not? Bu
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when we speak or write a definition, the definition is just a string of words expressing the object’s purpose.
Daniel Moody • The Flesh Made Word
Legality reflects reality through language. We have two worlds united by a common language.
Daniel Moody • The Flesh Made Word
We now have three big pieces of a picture and are in a position to fit them together so that the whole picture can be seen more clearly. The pieces are: 1) our understanding of the interplay between reality and language; 2) our vision of man-made law as being a mirror existing in our minds; and 3) the fact that language is the only thing which exis
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The purpose of legality is to house and uphold our collective ideas about reality and society so that society can function in harmony with reality and in an ordered way. But we have also seen that neither cars nor water nor bodies physically exist inside legality, with our legal identity being only an immaterial reflection of our material identity.
Daniel Moody • The Flesh Made Word
The takeaway message from this is that reality upholds itself even when nobody believes in it. It can uphold itself independent of us because it was not our will which brought it into being. But a self-willed law can be upheld only by our belief in its validity, because it is our will—our minds—which brought that law into being in the first place.
Daniel Moody • The Flesh Made Word
The third aspect defining the difference between the two worlds concerns the two different kinds of law—those laws found in reality and reflected in legality, and those laws which reflect only social conventions.