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Here is the sentence:
Our government is God's law, according to you, and I can almost share all of that version of law according to you, but the words that I think I would use, at this time, is Common Law, or Natural Law, or God's Law, as our government, which is a voluntary agreement, subject to revision, but based upon the same voluntary government, avoiding deceit, threats, and violence willfully perpetrated upon the innocent.
I can restate the meaning as this:
Our shared understanding is such that God is the power governing all creation, you are much more specific as to what is or is not God's Law, and I merely confess that I don't know much about those Laws that govern us, I can be satisfied with calling these Laws that govern us by using the word Natural Law, or even Common Law, so long as government is then understood to be our shared understanding to avoid harming each other.
That is a different way of saying the same thing, and I don't know if you think one is better than the other, or if one can help the other in constructing a even better version.
I can try again with another competitive example, if you think it may help in conveying the intended message without too much error or confusion.