What is mankind?

To briefly review, God’s law established the pro-life ethic . We’ve seen how Israel was supposed to care whether a person lived or died— brothers, neighbors, countrymen, even strangers . The law prohibited murder and also promoted caring for others—two sides of a coin, if you will—and what we’ve been calling brother-keeping . We’ve also seen how, when Israel moved from a theocratic form of self-governance to a monarchy, they were warned it would make caring for themselves and others more difficult. Citizens would have to support the king, his armies and servants (the nobility) at great cost. Samuel’s prophecy of how life would change under a monarch was not a prescription for how it should change nor an excuse for neglecting the poor (1 Samuel 8:10-20). Because God allowed the change, did that mean He'd given up on the brother-keeping system? Were people now exempt from having to be generous to the poor and letting them glean the edges of their fields? Was the king now expected