“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. - 1 Corinthians 6:12
God's standard, delivered to us through Moses.
Cosmology
God’s identity is expressed as a singular name, the clearest example of a seed in the Bible. This name is a spiritual principle (point of wisdom) with great ramifications. As an identity, “being” or “I Am” suggests nothing specific but implicitly contains all of creation in its scope. The revelation of God’s identity was only the first step towards the materialization of this heavenly seed. The materialization of God’s identity required the following agreement between spiritual and corporeal realities: “All that the Lord has spoken [breath] we will do [body].” (Exodus 19:1-8)
Mosaic Law is more than just a means of preserving social order – it also expresses a spiritual identity. Every law is a specific ramification of God’s identity at the level of human interactions.
God’s name is extremely simple, yet it fully encapsulates the agreement between Israel and God to perform with deeds everything spoken with words. I am in deed what I am in word. I am on earth what I am in heaven. This name symbolizes the seed that contains the entire agreement in principle. This cosmic seed is like a mathematical axiom – a self-evident principle that cannot be proven due to its simplicity but from which everything must derive. The name of God is the principle of all Mosaic Laws.
“Thou shall not lie” or conversely “thou shall be true” or “words must agree with facts” or “heaven must agree with earth” express the same identity “I am what I am” at different scales of reality.
“Thou shall not kill” can be expanded into more obscure questions like whether murders are all equal – killing parents, children, servants, dogs, by accident or self-defense, by indirect means, etc. (Exodus 21) These questions arise when law is applied to the complexity of human interactions and develops into a series of branches. This concretization is essentially what it means for God to blow into Adam’s nostrils the breath of life. It refers to a process of materialization in which a purely spiritual identity is fleshed out into its practical ramifications. The earth is not just a storehouse of matter but of enigmatic darkness to be answered by the light of a higher identity, so specific laws are formed by the descent of a metaphysical principle into the details of corporeal reality in a necessary process to reveal the identity of God to humanity. God’s identity is lowered, and the masses of Israelites must raise themselves into significance by embodying them as deeds.
The law is a tree, and the deeds are its fruits.
(The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis - A Commentary by Matthieu Pageau, 2018. Pages 77-83)
Verses
The First Five Books
The Hebrew Bible is arranged into the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings. The Law comprises the Hebrew Torah or the Christian Pentateuch.
(The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Section One: The Authority and Inspiration of the Bible. Page 5-6)