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18
Feb

The Religious Origins of Law

   Posted by: Joshuah

Christians really need to learn this, and learn it fast, if they are able. Time after time we are told by pastors, preachers, evangelists and others of a similar ilk that God (the King they say) did away with his own law. And yet, these devoted followers of Christ (who was God by the way) will, when confronted with concepts and commands from scripture that would be contrary to Man’s law, point to verses such as Romans 13:1 (God’s law?) that prove that they must obey the law of the state. To them, God’s law is a curse, a heavy chain, and a burden they cannot bear, while the law of the State is not. Preposterous!

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. 1 John 5:2-3

When ever in the course of history has a king done away with his own law, and required his subjects to follow the law of another king? Nowhere that I have discovered, except in the case of Yahweh, as taught by modern Christianity and it’s neo-pharisaic rulers, and if ever it has happened (I’m no historian) then that king was most certainly a fool, and not a king for long. According to this convoluted logic of modern churchianity, Biblical Law (God’s Law-Word!) actually requires that God’s people to commit idolatry. God forbid!

Rushdoony, as always, had a few words to say on the matter of law.

“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.” RJ Rushdoony, Vol. 1, The Institutes of Biblical Law, p. 4

Also:

“Modern humanism, the religion of the state, locates law in the state and thus makes the state, or the people as they find expression in the state, the god of the system.” Ibid. p. 5

So you have two options it would seem. Love God and keep his commandments, or love the State and all it has to offer. You cannot serve two masters. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!

Oh yea, one more thing for those who would say that Love conquerors all…

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not
murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment,
are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Romans 13:9

The first table of the law shows us how to love God, and the second table of the law shows us how to love the brethren. To think that we are left to our own devices, to whim and fancy and our own conscience about how to love God and the brothers is to buy the lie of the nachash, and to become like God, knowing (determining for ourselves) good and evil.

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