How should we use the law tag?

Question

I think law needs some attention. The current tag wiki reads:

Rules and regulations established in the Old Testament by God through Moses

However, the questions using this tag include:

• Should Christians uphold unjust laws that are not overtly immoral?
• Is breaking copyright law a sin?

And I think we've had several other questions about modern day laws, and even some Biblical "laws" that are not established in the Old Testament.

I think either we need to change the tag wiki to apply to all forms of laws, or we need multiple tags.

Edit:

I see at least three broad categories of laws:

• Mosaic law

• Other "laws" or commandments in the Bible

  This probably includes the Jewish ceremonial laws that were an extension of, but not explicitly mentioned in, the Mosaic law, and the generic "law" that Paul talks about in his (which may contain, but is not limited to Mosaic law)

• Modern civil law

Answer 1

I agree. If the tag is supposed to be about the Law of Moses, it should be called law-of-moses. There are enough other "laws" that Christians could interact with or have questions about that this particular one needs its own category.

Answer 2

With Catholicism closed, Canon law ought to be on topic too eh?

Answer 3

There is definitely more than one thing going on here.

How about mosaic-law vs governmnet-laws?

edit done.

When questions come up that need canon law or whatever else we can add a tag. If government-laws is not the best name we can change out but at least they are split up.