Rights and Responsibilities - with Dr. Kayser

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🗓️ 24 December 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Today's conversation dives deeply into the question of Rights. We in the 2A community are quick to bring up our rights, to affirm them as pre-existing, to appeal to them as unlimited... but what exactly are these human rights, how should we talk about them, and how did America's founders define them? Today's guest is Dr. Phillip Kayser, a pastor and theologian who has written extensively on the topic.

The Divine Right of Resistance by Dr. Kayser
Additional materials on Limiting Government
Christianity and the Constitution by Col. John Eidsmoe

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0:00.0	Welcome to another T-Rex talk. I'm very excited to once again have a guest for you, someone that I'm very excited to have a conversation with, but also introduce all of you to. I guess first though I should say, Merry Christmas, because it is Christmas time. And here with me on the line, I have a good friend of mine, Dr. Phil Kaiser, who is a perfect person for this next
0:22.7	conversation on rights and responsibilities. Dr. Kaiser, I think you're the first
0:27.7	theologian and pastor that we've had on the show. And I just believe that you are ideally
0:34.9	suited to be part of this conversation, help to find some
0:37.9	of these things as rights and responsibilities. So is there anything that you want to tell the T-Rex
0:43.0	listeners about yourself before we get into a fairly deep topic, I would say? Well, I'm honored.
0:48.7	I'm honored to be with you and love the organization T-Rex itself. So I think these two topics dovetail very nicely together.
1:00.3	I grew up in the mission field. Theology is my love, but I like philosophy and history and
1:07.2	politics and have been very involved in politics.
1:17.5	But, yeah, this topic of human rights, I think, is very near and dear to my heart, and I'm delighted to be able to share with you.
1:19.5	And you've written a book called The Divine Right of Resistance, which I'm going to recommend
1:24.4	to folks right off the bat.
1:26.9	But this idea of the divine right of kings goes away back, and it's a terrible idea,
1:33.1	that kings are divinely given sovereign authority.
1:37.3	And we won't get into that.
1:39.5	But that isn't actually something that is found in scripture.
1:42.9	Rather, we have the divine right of resistance.
1:46.3	There are limits on authority and there is a right to resist unlawful authority. And I think that
1:51.1	everybody listening to the T-Rex podcast knows that because we all believe in the Second Amendment.
1:56.5	We all talk about how the right to keep and bear arms is in fact a right. So the T-Rex crowd is very
2:04.0	comfortable with talking about rights and in assuming that we have rights. But a lot of times,
2:09.5	I don't think we go much further than that. So are human rights inherent? And how or why are they inherent? Wow, that's a huge question that
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