When God gave the law, it gave humanity the power to rule over the earth. The law was not just a set of standards to show humanity their sin, but rather a curse for all lawbreakers. If the law did not pronounce death upon offenders, then there would be no need for Christ as humanity's substitution. However, God did not make a sweeping declaration through the Ten Commandments.In other words, God did not simply write each commandment and then add the threat of death as an afterthought. Instead, He wrote each law and then gave the judgement of death for each violation. So the curse was more than just the reason for Christ to be a substitute. It was a legal declaration that was pronounced on anyone who violated that law.Why did God have the same judgement of death for the smallest violation? Because the law was not just the standard of conduct, but it also controlled the unity of creation and of nations. So, you see that God gave blessing in order to save a people as the unity that the curse destroyed. Blessing is always pronounced in the context of a society.In other words, if a person violated God's law, the harm was not just limited to that individual and God. The law is spoken of as a healthy cell in a body. A violation of the law would be the introduction of a foreign cell. So the law enforced unity in the parts of society. God not only gave the curses for the legal right of salvation but to attack the foreign cell. God controlled nations through blessing and cursing.