Deana, you had me at nature but lost me at God. As part of the natural world  we are governed by natural law. We are an infinitesimal yet sacred part of life's manifestation. Life comes coursing through us from the day we are born until the day we die. Any idea that we are the authors of our actions is illusion. We're all doing the best we can with what we've got. 

Under God's laws, however, we are permitted to judge ourselves and each other unmercifully. This stems from the concept of free will, which assumes that we are apart from nature rather than part of it.

One set of laws permits us to live in a permanent state of forgiveness, the other requires that we have to qualify for it - which strikes me as rather unnatural.