Yes, God. So welcome to the

to the plotcast this is episode 246 I'm Douglas Wilson and you are not. You've come along to listen and I appreciate it. Welcome.

So, 246, here we are. I recently received a question that has been raised before and I think this is a very important question as we're discussing things like Christian nationalism and theocracy and theonomy and the theocracy and the onomy and the intersection between God's revelation in his word and what our laws ought to be.

And the question that was posed to me, and this comes up almost right away whenever we're talking about

Conforming our society to biblical law, this question will arise.

Do you think that the government ought to enforce the first

table of the law? Okay? You shall have no other gods before me, not make a graven image, not take the name of the Lord, God in vain, and

the Sabbath.

That's the first table of the law.

Now if someone said, do you think think let's say someone made you well here's my standard joke if I were president and what a glorious three days that would be

So if let's say I had the discretion and the power and the authority

to say what kind of government we were going to have. And someone came up to me and said,

Wilson, are you going to enforce the first table of the law? Okay? My response to that would be, I believe that we should make a decision, in fact I have made this decision as the chief Pouba which I am right now, I've made the decision that the government is going to obey the first table

of the law. Okay? Obey the first table of the law, not enforce the first table of the And given the case, the stateist assumptions and the predilection that people have toward

governmental idolatries, I think the government should work on obeying the first table of the law for two, three hundred years.

When the government has obeyed the first table of the law. Then we can begin discussion on what we're going to do with

that citizen guy over there who has got a statue of Buddha on his mantle piece in his house and he

prays to it. What do we do with that guy? Well, someone's going to say, well,

doesn't the law require, you know, this is the difficulty.

The greatest violations of the first table of the law have always historically been governmental

violations of the first table of the law.

Nebuchanezer is the one who set up the golden statue and Nebuchnezer is the one who said everybody's

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