Second American Revolution: Rousas John Rushdoony (5 of 9)

Question:-- But wouldn't a Christian Republic run according to God's Law become oppressive to non-Christians?

Law is the will of the sovereign for his subjects. Thus Law represents the word of the God of the society. Now whose Law you have, He is your God. So if Washington makes our laws, Washington is our God. As Christians we cannot believe that. For centuries, God's law has functioned wherever God's people have been, whether in Israel or in Christendom. This is a new and modern thing that we turn to the state's law. One professor of law, the dean of a law school, told me that he found that even into the 1840s, courts in the United States, decided cases out of the Bible -- out of God's Word, out of His Law -- because He is God.

Now we do not recognize God as God over the United States. The oath of office for the president of the United States used to be taken on an open Bible on Deuteronomy 28 invoking all the curses of God for disobedience to His law and all the blessings of God for obedience to his law. Now basically you can have two kinds of law: theonomy -- God's law, or autonomy -- self-law. That's what it boils down to and autonomy leads to anarchy, which is what we are getting increasingly.

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[o0splitpaw0o]

Your preaching would be illegal during the eyes of the Catholic run England, hence why you protestantism, Baptist, all you spun-off were dejected out of the England. Washington, Jefferson saw how Catholic Government control, had made witch spectacles of watching women burn & Irish men burn & be gutted right in front of little children. If this is the society you want, well megadeath it will be.

[jcr4runner]

@o0splitpaw0o But this is not government under the authority of God.

[daveymaxine]

@junkkaddress There is a certain irony, don't you think, it condemning to eternal hell those who uphold the death penalty.

[ChesapeakeBeach]

This old guy is dead, just like the ideas he espoused. Those of us who are atheists can be thankful (thankful to whom I don't know, nobody I suspect.)

[richardruhe]

-sorry to tell ya, He did. 'Let him...throw the first stone'

Nevermind that it probably isn't in the original text/nevermind that the one to throw the stone is the one who is witness-prob. not there at the time...why????

[garys737]

Great man.........................

[jcr4runner]

That's a very good point:

1. From a biblical perspective, if capital punishment is done away with for certain crimes, do we still consider these vile acts crimes? And if so, what should the civil penalty be?

2. If we mortal human beings, with flawed wisdom, are the ones to decide what the civil penalty is, then what makes it just? If we decide that grand theft auto deserves the death penalty, why would that be wrong? If we fine a child rapist $50 would that be right?

[chalcedonite]

Adultery takes two. Where was the man? God's law requires that both be punished. Jesus says "let he who is without sin cast the first stone" means that the adulteresses were many and adulterers were those stone throwing men. Jesus was pointing out the unjust law. He will destroy death but never the death penalty, God does not change. It was not His law they were attempting to minister. I think you need to get your facts straight...connect the dots. Man is not the lawgiver.

[AmbassadorOfHeaven]

What is the punishment for Treason against your own country? Most countries that I know death. The same result against God's kingdom! If you want to commit Treason against God, then your punishable by death. It is as simple as that, why can't people get that across their lukewarm minds?

[androcracy]

junkkaddress does not know Jesus Christ very well if at all, so how can he judge what is anti-Christian? Please remember that Jesus is the author of the "Law of Moses". Junk-buddy is trying to quote from John chapter 8 and is trying to use it as evidence that Jesus didn't affirm stoning. Sadly it only proves his ignorance of Gd's laws, provision, Love and especially his Holiness. If Jesus would have approved of this stoning he would have become an accomplice to rebellion and lawlessness.