Chapter 2: Natural Law and International Law

The foundation upon which we stand rests on two complementary pillars that together create an unshakeable basis for legitimate society: natural law and international law. These are not competing frameworks but harmonious expressions of the same fundamental reality, that certain principles exist prior to and independent of invention, that these principles create both rights and obligations that transcend cultural boundaries and historical circumstances, and that societies achieve legitimacy only insofar as they align themselves with these eternal truths. Understanding this dual foundation requires examining each pillar separately before recognizing how they support and reinforce one another in creating the philosophical and legal architecture of our society.

Natural law refers to those principles woven into the fabric of existence itself through the evolution of the natural world and society, discoverable through reason and observation, operating whether acknowledged or ignored. Unlike positive law, the statutes and regulations created by legislative bodies and enforced through state power, natural law exists independent of human will or recognition. The Freeport Bible teaches that these principles emerge from the balanced wisdom and reveals that people evolved as social beings with the capacity for moral choice and the ability to live in harmony with the natural world.