The Five Levels Of Law

First, there are five levels of law that are connected to the movie “End of the Spear” which include; Divine/Eternal, Natural, Revealed, Church, and Civil. Divine and eternal law is God’s vision of good and evil, like how we are told to love one another. In the movie this relates to how some of the foreigners and missionaries knew that they needed to respect each other. But the Waodani did not follow this concept. Natural law is human instinct, the desire to preserve life and relationships,in the manner of building each other up by living in a community. For example, using your conscience. The revealed law is God working through people in scripture. For example, the fifth commandment, “Thou shalt not kill” or stories about jesus in the gospel.
“Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied”. You see this in the film when Rachel goes to live with the waodani. Shen helped others and was willing to sacrifice her life to the waodani in order to make them thrive by teaching them new things. “Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land”, Nate was patient when looking for the waodani, it took a long time but he did not give up. “Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness. This relates to all the missionary family's husbands, they died trying to help the waodani. Because of this the women were able to become close with the tribe and forgive the waodani for killing the men, and they reached their ultimate goal of sharing the gospel with them and help them change their
A wrongly formed conscience could have no fault of their own, people are sometimes given information or assumptions about right or wrong that are mistaken. The waodani would be an example of this because they believed in certain things that we all know are wrong. They believed that spearing people was okay or that it's the way to live and survive. But, we know it's wrong and it's not the way to live. There is also a healthy conscience which is well-formed and will tell you what you need to hear. Rachel has a healthy conscience because she felt good about her decisions when she helped Dayumae. A lax conscience would habitually sin in a certain way and is distorted. Mincayani thought it was wrong to let his mom kill his sister but, later goes off and kills tons of people. Also Mincayani wouldn't change his ways and wanted to keep the tradition a live and stop spearing, this would be a legalistic conscience.

Personal, social, mortal, and venial are the four different types of sin. In the movie Ninkiwi expressed personal sin when he lied to the tribe, he knew the foreigners weren't trying to kill them. He lied to protect himself. And a social sin would be all of the waodani killing. There is also mortal sin which comes into play when the waodani kill people for fun because they are cutting of their relationship