People say sods law, but who is sod and why is it his law?

Answer 1

...wonderful misreading of the question by Thurb - love it!

Here's the lazy answer ie from Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sod%27s_law

As you can see there doesnt seem to be any particular significance to the term Sod - just based on the swear word

Answer 2

Sod's law is: if anything can go wrong, it will. For example, on the one night you are planning a barbecue outside, it is Sod's law that it will rain that night after two weeks of fine weather.

An equation has even been developed to factor in just how badly things could go wrong. See the web site below.

Answer 3

sods law - is that if something can go wrong then it will.

no idea where the name came from

Answer 4

Sod is the name of a horse belong to a lady I know, and she called him that because of his behaviour.

Answer 5

In my personal belief, God may be assumed to be the Author of God's law, usually referred to as the Ten Commandments--and if He didn't write them he should have, and since God always does as He should do, there is no question that, one way or another, He originated them. You might call this circular reasoning. I call it faith!

Since God can only be revealed to mankind though His Law, your questions can be answered only though study and discussion of the Law, read in the light of love of God and man in which it was written. God is eternal and lives beyond time and space, hence must be forever a mystery to His creatures confined to the time and the space in which He has lovingly created them, and much of the ill that befalls mankind occurs because of our disobedience to His Law, that is His commandments obeyed and applied with reverence and love.

And why has He given us this law? So that we will recognize His dominion, power and love enough to love Him, and may help and avoid harming ourselves and one another, and, even more important, partake insofar as possible of God's very nature, which is love spiritual and incarnate, temporal and eternal.

He has already answered your question about His nature, in answer to a question by Moses, who also asked God who He was. What He told Moses, who was so important a link that he was chosen to deliver God's commandment to the world, must matter some.. He said,: "I Am He Who Is". This might be read, "I am the Essence from which all that exists comes into being; and, while all else may pass, I Am!"

Christians believe that Jesus was God and God's law on Earth, his sacrificial death on the cross may atone for people's sins, his resurrection defeats the power of death for all, and Heaven awaits those saved through God's grace.

In this belief, the importance of the commandments is not diminished, but, in the Christian view, enhanced. I hope this answers your question from the Biblical perspective.

Answer 6

I believe it's a cousin to Murphy's Law.