What is law? How does a law come to exist?

Answer 1

Something you follow so you don't end up in jail. Someone makes it.

Answer 2

The word 'law' has several meanings. People talk about the laws of physics or the laws of logic. People talk about legal laws that are made by the government. And people talk about religious laws that their ancestors have recorded in ancient holy books.

Since you chose the Religion & Spirituality section to ask your question in, I presume you are asking about religious laws.

Perhaps a law is a rule that a community of people believe in and enforce among themselves in an organized way.

And of course religious laws come into existence when a community of people join in and begin to believe in one religion or another.

The Jews were not always Jews. The Christians were not always Christians. And the Muslims were not always Muslims. They all had a beginning where a community of people came together with a common belief in a new religion that didn't exist before. These people began to enforce the religious rules they believed in. And they passed on their ways and beliefs to their children and perhaps converted other communities to their way of doing things.

Present day believers who enforce and obey religious rules are simply a community of people who continue original religious beliefs either because they were brought up by their parents to be like that or because they've converted and chose to be like that.

Answer 3

depends on which context you ask the question. For society it is an agreed and usually voted upon set of rules by which society functions and is held accountable in actions for. If however, you are referring to God's Laws, or Spiritual Laws or the like, it is principles that are in force by the very nature of realities in the Spirit realm and sustained by God's character. It is not up for vote.

Answer 4

A law is a rule people agree to live by.

Sometimes, the rule is selected by one person and the others follow. This is authoritative. Examples are monarchy and theocracy.

Sometimes, each region is ruled by one person, and the gathering of regions is ruled by one from amongst them. This is feudal, which is the primary example. Nobilistic monarchy would also class.

Sometimes, people in a region elect representatives, and these representatives rule. Examples are parlimentarianism and republicanism.

Sometimes, people directly rule themselves. Examples include democracy and [theoretically] communism.

Answer 5

In the Bible the law was given by God to His people the Jews. They were told to follow the law of God, but people can not keep God's law and the savior Jesus died to pay for our inability to keep God's law. The law showed us what sin is.

The land you live in has laws made by people, usually government. It is made up of rules to follow.

Answer 6

looks like someone needs a good dose of some school house rock.