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"The social order which despises God's law places itself on death row: it is marked for judgment."

-R.J. Rushdoony from The Institutes of Biblical Law

"...there are but two possible sources of civil power, viz., God and the people." - If power is from God, then God's law must prevail; if power be from the people, then the people's will shall prevail, and there is no principle of law above and over the people."

  -R.J. Rushdoony from The Institutes of Biblical Law

"The church is called to function as a preservative in society ("the salt of the earth"), (Matthew 5:13) and thus the early church and Reformers main­lined, among other things, that the civil "magistrate" is also a "minister" if God (Romans 13:4,6) and as such responsible to His authority and law. Previously the autonomous polis and natural reason, taken to be the source and authority for political law, were challenged by the church, but today the church has largely succumbed to the idea that God's law is extraneous, lot only to personal morality, but to matters of statesmanship and civil government. The theologians of this century have offered no serious alternative to the world, giving the impression that "the salt has lost its saltiness." For instance, in a book on the very topic of The Christian in Politics we read these words by Walter James:

The Christian is called upon to act beside other men and no assurance is given him that he will sense God's purpose better than they. He can no more aim to be a Christian statesman than a Christian engineer. . . . He stands on a par with the non-Christian. . . . His religion will give him no special guid­ance in his public task. . .

In addition to not having anything to speak before kings (Psalm119:46) because of its endorsement of neutralism in civil affairs, the modern church has shown itself to be as antinomian in its theory of ethics as the autono­mous secular man. As a result the church fails to challenge "the powers that be" with the "power (authority)" of Christ (Romans 13:1 with 28:18) or to offer restor­ative guidance to its society...."

-Greg Bahnsen in Theonomy in Christian Ethics

"Law is in every culture religious in origin. Because law governs man and society, because it establishes and declares the meaning of justice and righteousness, law is inescapably religious, in that it estab­lishes in practical fashion the ultimate concerns of a culture. Accord­ingly, a fundamental and necessary premise in any and every study of law must be, first, a recognition of this religious nature of law.

Second, it must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society. If law has its source in man's reason, then reason is the god of that society. If the source is an oligarchy, or in a court, senate, or ruler, then that source is the god of that system..."

-R.J. Rushdoony from The Institutes of Biblical Law

"Scripture teaches the mediatorial kingship of Christ. It is not merely a kingship over believers but a kingship of a far more comprehensive kind. Because the suffering Servant of Jehovah poured out His soul unto death, God divided Him a portion with the great, and He divided the spoil with the strong (Isaiah 53:12). And when God raised His Son from the dead and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenlies, He placed Him "far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named . . . and put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church" (Ephesians 1:20-22).

That kingship of its Head the church must proclaim. It must require of men everywhere that they acknowl­edge Him as Head of all things, as King over every do­main of their lives. It must insist on Christian marriage, Christian education, Christian science, Christian industry, Christian labor, Christian relationships between labor and industry, Christian culture, Christian recreation, Chris­tian politics, Christian internationalism; in short, on a Christian society as well as a Christian church. Moving like a mighty army, the church of God must sing re­soundingly:

Onward, then, ye people, Join our happy throng;
Blend with ours your voices In the triumph-song:
Glory, laud and honor Unto Christ the King!
This through endless ages Men and angels sing."

R.B. Kuiper From: The Glorious Body of Christ

“God is thus the principle of definition, of law, and of all things. He is the premise of all thinking, and the necessary presupposition for every sphere of thought. It is blasphemy therefore to attempt to "prove" God; God is the necessary presupposition of all proof. To ground any sphere of thought, life, or action, or any sphere of being, on anything other than the triune God is thus blasphemy. Education without God as its premise, law which does not presuppose God and rest on His law, a civil order which does not derive all authority from God, or a family whose foundation is not God's word, is blasphemous.”
  --R.J. Rushdoony from The Institutes of Biblical Law

“Law premised on equality will simply assert the tyrannical supremacy of an elite group of men. True Law must rest on the absolute and only true God.”
  -R.J. Rushdoony from The Institutes of Biblical Law