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using divine reason. The natural law, according to Aquinas, was the

participation in the Eternal Law, doing what was right.(Comptons) Marriage and

the procreation of children, for example, are natural to all beings. The desire

to marry and make offspring is an inborn instinct given by God. The natural law,

in both Christian and secular views, state that all humans act or should act in

certain ways and abide by certain rules, and that these were predestined by a

divine power. The Christian thinkers, led by St. Thomas Aquinas, only added

that the divine power was God and that by doing what was right, one was using

divine reason. The natural law is the essence of the word natural. It just

means anything normal or feels normal is right. I do agree with most of the

natural law. I very much believe that God gave man the ability to reason right

from wrong and that sometimes we just have a feel for what is right and wrong.

I don agree, however, with the Stoics* viewpoint that emotion and passion are

unnatural. They must be natural because they are found in every person. Also,

the emotion of passion is a very desirable trait in the Bible. I think emotions

are one way God tries to tell us what is just.

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