Religion v. American Legal System?

Question

The Bible is comparable to state statutes. It sets out the general rules as to what is right and what is wrong. In the American legal system, courts interpret the laws and clear up gray areas that are not specifically covered by statutes. Opinions issued by courts are published in reporters and are available to the public. These opinions have just as much authority as statutes. In religion, God is the equivalent of the court system, in that when we die, he will supposedly tell us what we did wrong and will sentence us to our punishment or send us on to heaven. During their lifetimes, religious people debate over the gray areas that are not specifically or clearly addressed in the Bible (masturbation, stem cell research, abortion, etc.) According to the religious, God will answer all of these questions when we die. The difference with religion is that the opinions that God issues to these people when they die are not published in any reporter for any of us to see. Can you imagine if our legal system did not inform the public of decisions it made in court cases? What if we just had to wait until our day in court to know whether or not something was going to be considered illegal?

Answer 1

The difference is that the gray areas will not lead to a punishment. To commute your sentence all you have to do is believe in Christ. 'If you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.' (Romans 10:9) In the long run it does not really matter to God how you view or act in the gray areas as long as you believe you will be saved.

If God is the judicial system, Christ is the President or the governor giving out pardons to all who have asked from them.

Answer 2

Obviously, it would be a total mess. There are other differences as well: the legal system is based on the needs of the state to preserve order and insure that agreements are carried out. The bible is based on nothing, and has hundreds of errors and scores of internal contradictions to boot, so no consistent (let alone useful) system can be made from it.