Shall Not Be Infringed

HOW THE SECOND AMENDMENT REFLECTS BIBLICAL THOUGHT

Second AmendmentIn my previous article, I established the Biblical principle that citizens should be armed for two basic reasons.  The first of these reasons is that we need to be able to protect ourselves in a fallen world against those who would do us harm.  The second of these reasons is that we need to be able to keep government from growing tyrannical, for it will always tend to do so. Continue reading

A (Kosher) Taste of Freedom

SHADES OF FREEDOM: ARTICLE ONE

I write so often concerning the idea of human freedom because it underpins the important issue of human dignity.  When considering the issue of human government, we must always remember that humanity was created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26,27), and God is free.  This means that every loss of human freedom moves the image of God in humanity closer to extinction, and therefore must be guarded against most diligently. Continue reading

The Hangman Cometh

THE BIBLIST PAPERS: 2

Once anarchy and the sinful nature of humanity had finished their Divine tutorial on the need for human government, God then imposed the reality of it upon the Flood survivors immediately upon their exit from the Ark (Genesis 9:6), where human government had its Divine beginning with the idea of capital punishment for murderers.  This essentially made the idea of capital punishment for murderers the foundation for all human government, and any government not built upon that foundation is, by definition, an illegitimate expression of it (from Heaven’s point of view). Continue reading

When Gods Collide

INTERNATIONAL BORDERS: PART THREE

We now move into a more serious discussion of the idea of culture, for culture is fundamental to a people and nation, and is the thing that is most meant to be protected by the existence of an international border.  Our first stop in this discussion must therefore be to discuss the idea of cultural superiority and inferiority, for whenever there are notable differences between cultures such judgments must be made, however loudly the multiculturalists may howl at the notion. Continue reading

Divine Separation

INTERNATIONAL BORDERS: PART ONE

So profoundly muddled is today’s thinking regarding the issue of international borders that I find it necessary to bring some Scriptural firepower to bear upon it, and so today I launch a four-part series dedicated to the subject.  Our first look into the fog will be to discuss the need for many separate and sovereign nations. Continue reading