According to St. Thomas’ Natural Law teaching,?

Question

i. God is the author of the natural law
ii. human laws are always grounded in the natural law
iii. Nobody can have any understanding of the natural law if they lack access to the Bible and its teachings
iv. morality is inseparable from human nature
v. Man’s natural inclinations in one society may be completely different in another society
vi. killing innocents is wrong only because in the Bible God said “Thou Shalt Not Kill.”
vii. Philosophy (the love of wisdom) is natural, and hence good.

a. i, ii, iii.
b. i, v, vi.
c. i, iv, vii.
d. iii, vi, vii.

Answer 1

Please offer a source and next time do the mental gymnastics to actually form a question.



The reason I ask for a source is because I believe (iii) is in direct contradiction with (iv) and not at all what St. Thomas taught... The new covenant (jer 31-33) is "the law written in their heart" it was around well before the Bible was bound and even the atheist is drawn by his nature to choose good over evil moral acts (Natural Law)

Answer 2

The food and hygiene laws written in the Book of Leviticus can now be proven to have been based all this time on the God Yahweh's working knowledge of the germ theory of disease and the modern human body. That makes this part of The Bible grounded in the laws of advanced science of what is good for all humans and not just the Jews.

Answer 3

A