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Is the Bible All We Need for Political Engagement? [God, Law, and Liberty]

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🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Today David begins to look at a third group he now sees involved in politics, those he calls neo-Theonomists. The prophet Isaiah as well as the person who prepared the soil for Abraham Kuyper’s political engagement, Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, speak wisely to those who with a Benthamite view of the Bible run to the Capitol to press for enactment of certain laws of God.

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0:00.0

Thank you for joining us for another episode of God, Law, and Liberty with David Fowler,

0:08.0

President of the Family Action Council of Tennessee.

0:11.0

Every week, we are putting culture, politics, and law on a

0:14.9

collision course with the truth of God's word. And now here's David.

0:21.6

I'm glad you've joined me today for this episode of God, Law, and Liberty, and I'm honored to have you with me.

0:31.0

And as I was thinking about what I would cover today in light of what I've

0:38.0

covered recently about the Neo Covenanters and the Neo Baptist. I might talk about another group that I see pressing

0:50.1

into the world of politics pressing for legislative outcomes that I alluded to in

0:56.5

I think the first episode on the subject when I first talked about the Neo Covenantors and that's the Neo Theonomists because to be honest I find

1:08.4

that group the hardest among the three to work with in the political sphere.

1:18.0

And I think it's really because of the cosmology, the Neothonimus operate under, and the historical perspective

1:28.2

that they bring to the table, the absence of an historical. the And I guess I would describe the Neothianimists as the people who rightly get the conjunction of the word Theo and God and

1:51.0

nomos law that we live in a world that is governed, ordered, according to the law of God,

2:01.4

is directed according to the law of God, but who tend to see the law in the very way

2:08.7

that Jonathan Burnside said most Christians see the law today even biblical law as commands from a

2:17.6

sovereign not understanding the depth and breadth of the word, Torah, that is translated law, goes far beyond that to teaching,

2:30.0

to wisdom begins with, in the beginning God created is the first element of law

2:38.1

that the Bible provides to us and instead they tend to see it as commands like the

2:47.0

Benthamite would see a law. This is the law that's what you do and so because of that perspective there's usually their way or the highway because

2:59.7

they've got the command down so well.

3:03.5

And, but I think it's really, really important

3:08.4

to understand what's going on in the world when you begin to engage in the sphere of politics and law.

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