Over the past couple years, I have asked Jews, Christians and Muslims, why they believe their religion is the path to peace. The answers I received were unsatisfactory. I was especially disappointed in Muslims. I thought even if Jews and Christians were blind, at least Muhammad's people would understand. So now I will tell YOU why the LORD's Torah is the path to peace, but first, we need to understand the reason why we don't have peace.
To keep it short and simple, the reason we don't have peace throughout our lands is because of the wicked actions of human beings. Humans kill, steal, kidnap, accept bribes to pervert justice, cheat on one another, and so on. How can there be peace when all of these things are happening all during the day, every day of the week?
So, what the LORD did, in His Torah, He commanded us to abstain from committing these wicked actions and pointed out what is good to do. We're not supposed to commit sexual immorality, covet other people's property, bear false witness, hold a grudge against one another and so on. Basically we're to love one another and treat other people as we would want to be treated. Christians separate these commandments, call it the moral law and chuck the rest of the Torah away. But how effective is a moral law when it comes to establishing peace in a nation?
Despite claiming to believe in a moral law, Christians still steal, fornicate, and rape. You're always hearing about married pastors impregnating members in their congregation. Only the other day, I saw an article about a church pleading with one of their members accused of rape, to turn himself in. So if the moral law isn't capable of making peace among those who say they believe, what hope does it have among unbelievers? None I say. That is why the LORD didn't stop at the moral law.
God knew the moral law would never be enough to contain the evil in man's hearts. It has no power over those who want to do evil. It cannot make a person obey. And if people are allowed to do evil, there can never be peace. So He gave the leaders other commandments with the power to make people obey; His judgments!
If a murderous thought rises up in you and you can't quench it because of the love of God in you, then His judgments were given to make you quench it because of the fear of God in you. If you can't leave another man's wife alone because of the love of God in you, then the fear of His judgments is supposed to give you the strength to walk away.
His judgments are harsh. They weren't designed to merely punish wrongdoers like the laws of the gentiles. They were meant to put fear in the hearts of evildoers, so that they would abstain, not needing to be punished. And when everyone abstains from doing evil because they either have the love of God in them or the fear of God in them, the righteous will be happy and peace will finally be a reality!
"These are the things which you should do: speak the truth to one another; judge with truth and judgment for PEACE in your gates." Zechariah 8:16
This is why the LORD's Torah is the path to peace. It not only sets the standard, it enforces it as well. Any religion that is based on moral law alone is weak and is ineffective when it comes to making long-lasting peace in the earth. Because it leaves the ones who really need to be contained at large. Or at the very least, in the hands of worldly governments that don't know their right hand from their left hand.
In case any unstable person comes across this post, I think I should remind people that the LORD's judgments are to be carried out by the government of a country and not by unauthorized individuals.
"Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and THEY shall judge the people with just judgment." Deuteronomy 16:18
The most a believer should do right now is preach about it. Nothing more.