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Did God Write His Law on Our Hearts?

James Hollomon
ILLUMINATION
3 min readDec 24, 2024

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Hand holding a red heart with a cross-shaped cutout in its middle before a setting sun so that the sun shines through the cross.
Is the Bible right that Yahweh has written His laws on all human’s hearts?

This article is one of a series of articles introduced by Flawed Reasons to Believe in God. If you’re new to the series, you should read the Introduction before (or after) reading the material below.

Presuppositioinalists love to quote scriptures claiming God wrote his laws on our hearts while He knit us together in our mother’s womb. That’s the claim, but is it true?

It’s preposterous to claim that the war and storm God of the ancient Semitic tribes of Northeastern Canaan around 1200 BCE wrote his Mosaic and Christian laws on every human heart over the last 200,000 years. Nonetheless, both Old and New Testament writers made that claim. Romans 2:14–15 says, “14. For when Gentiles who do not have [q]the Law [r]instinctively perform the requirements of the Law, these, though not having [s]the Law, are a law to themselves, 15. in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them…”

The Old Testament first mentions God’s plan to write his laws on our hearts. Jeremiah 31:33 reads, “33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, and…

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James Hollomon
James Hollomon

Written by James Hollomon

Majored in Chemistry, designed electronics automation until the industry moved offshore, transitioned to writing & web development. Currently writing Cult.

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