(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
Deuteronomy 30:11–14, “For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.”
While there are many people who try to blame the Lord God for sin, evil and all the other bad things in the world, the truth is that the Lord only does good. (compare Deut 8:16, “Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;”) The Lord didn’t make things hard for Israel when He gave them good things. The commandment, which the Moses referred to in this section was given at the beginning of this section (Deut 28:1, “And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:”) They were to commit themselves to keeping the Law of the Lord that was given to them at Horeb. This was a simple commandment. The Lord didn’t give the commandment in some kind of code, or in a foreign language (compare Deut 28:49, “The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;”) They didn’t have to special training to understand what the Lord was telling them, all they had to do was learn to read their own language. The didn’t use some kind of “angelic” or “heavenly” language so that they would have to use some people with special heavenly or angelic knowledge. Everything was given to them is simple Hebrew so that they would not have trouble knowing what they agreed to when the made their contract with the Lord. After all, the Lord cared for the widow and the orphan (Ex 22:22, “Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.”) If He cared for those people, He would also, by extension, care for the simple people in the nation. This means that any person who could speak Hebrew, the ancient Israeli language, could understand the Law. They could either ask someone else to read it to them or they could read it for themselves. When the Lord finished creating the heavens and the earth God looked at His creation and saw that everything was very good (Gen 1:31, “And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.”) God saw His entire creation and it was completely distinct from Himself. The Lord God didn’t leave any part of Himself in His creation. He wasn’t diminished by the process of creation. There is no way that any person, who is part of the Lord’s creation, can evolve into a higher form of person. If everyone is creation is equal, then everyone is Israel is also equal so no one would need to evolve into a higher kind of person to understand the Law; it was simple and understandable by all.
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