Natural Law
I remember discussions (usually political) that centered on the issue of "Natural Law" or the indisputable, immutable, always and forever true laws of Nature. A great deal of theology, politics, and law is based on this idea. Religion in many different ways purports to know what "Natural Law" is and how it is to be enforced or followed.

Usually this idea of "Natural Law" is used to support one or another political position or, worse, to impose one's political-religious views on others. I know there are "Natural Laws." The world follows some very clear laws. The planets and the atoms in our bodies follow laws. Two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen combined will make water. Quantum physics has informed us that these laws may not always be as we see them in the "bigger" world, but there are still quantum laws that, while far from being understood or explains, are still true.

Well, in the religious field I don't think there are all that many "Natural Laws" that can be experientially proven. Except perhaps one:

Romans 7:21-25-- So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

This is a great deal like my discussion with myself over my high cholesterol. "I can't have high cholesterol," I tell myself. "I don't eat that much that has the bad stuff in it. I take the extra supplements that are supposed to lower it. You know, thins like fiber every morning."

After a year of that I went back to the doctor and had another cholesterol check-up- and it was still high. That can't be. I don't do what would make it high. I don't have to take one of those drugs for it.

The "good and healthy" man within my inner being knows the right. But, and this is the BIG ONE, my members that would otherwise lead my whole body into health, won't do this. It is the genetic and hereditary law of my body that it will produce the unhealthy, the cholesterol.

And I can't change that by personal self will. It is a natural law.

Such is the way of sin. The only experientially provable theological doctrine there may be.

Until you come to know the power of Jesus. He may not be able to do anything about the power of cholesterol, but the power of sin is far more dangerous to my health. Only in Jesus have I found the power that is greater than myself that will restore me to the inner being's direction toward God.