Welcome to the podcast.

Welcome to the podcast. This is episode 390. 390. My name is Douglas Wilson. That's who I am. I don't know who you are, but I'm glad you decided to join us. Good job. So I want to talk a little bit about the idol of consent in modern political theory. I'm not talking about age of consent or consent to sexual

relations. When I talk about the idol of consent, I'm talking about social contract theory.

Basically, social contract theorists believed that there was an imaginary parliament. The thing that they shared is that the belief

that you can't be subjected to any kind of authority unless you consented to it. Every individual

has to voluntarily relinquish their right to do as they please.

And in order to solve this problem, in order to crack this nut,

what they did was they hypothesized an imaginary parliament,

which contracted an imaginary social contract.

And this social contract binds us all. Back in this non-existent

vote back in the day, we all relinquished our primordial rights to be left alone, and we surrender

them in order to obtain peace and security and safety, right? The problem with this vote is that it never happened.

That's the problem.

The problem of this vote is that it's entirely fictional.

For Christians, the place where the fundamental decisions were made,

were not prehistoric in this imaginary social contract parliament, but rather historic. Adam and

Eve were historic beings, and they made decisions that affect us. Now, one of the things that, well,

one of them, one of the decisions was the decision to sin. The reason all of us were born sinful,

the reason we were born into a sinful race, and with a sinful nature, such that we couldn't do

anything but sin. As soon as we got the requisite muscle strength and the requisite intelligence,

we started to sin. When you look at a baby in a cradle

and you say, is this child a walker? You can say yes and no. The child is not a walker in that he's just

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