Which Is Better, Divine Law or Natural Law?
             Plato once stated "is right as the same as what the gods command." I believe that people need something to believe in something higher, that they are unable to explain but only have faith in. I believe that people during the biblical era people needed something to believe in. I say this because people back in the biblical era people's life was very hard and full of pain and sorrow, so if people were given some kind of higher power people would be able to forget their pain and sorrow. Thus the divine laws were created and eventually from the divine law came natural laws.
             I thin divine law is Gods will, or to do as God commanded. I believe people need some guide lines to follow or people would stray off the pass and sin. Having divine law would also help societies to live together. When you have bunch of people living together, that society would need some guidelines to follow so people would not do whatever they want to do. For example the story of the Gyges's ring having a power which would allow any individual wearing the ring to be invisible that individual would only sin, because that individual has no virtue. Aristotle stated that, "an individual would need good virtue for humans to achieve happiness." I agree with this statement a lot because in order for an individual to be virtuous that individual would have to believe in the divine command of his or her religion. The individual's divine command will help that society that believes
             in the same morals would make that society peaceful with each other and the ones that do not believe the divine command would only get punished with that society's natural law.
             I believe natural law is derived from divine law in the sense of societies are trying to come up with a punishment for the perpetrator. Example would be if an individual kills another person would it be right for th
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