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

President of the Family Action Council of Tennessee.

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

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

Thank you're for joining me for today's episode of God, Law and Liberty. I'm delighted that you're

with me and today I will be following up on last week's podcast, in which I explained how I had once read the Bible like a Benthamite, referring of course to Jeremy Bentham and his positivistic view of law as simply commands of a sovereign to which penalties

are attached and were bound to obey. And I noted that this view of law is Gnostic.

And I also gave an example from legislation being a championed by Christians regarding

transgenderism and minors and showed how the leaders advocating for that

legislation are doing so in a Gnostic fashion. And finally, I promised last

week that I'd put this revelation of my once Gnostic view of the Bible and

law in the context of the kinds of Christian views I've seen operating in the sphere of politics over the last, well, almost 30 years, which is, course politics being the place where law and

the ordering of society intersect. And in those two views, for the sake of

simplicity, I styled them the Neo Covenantal view you may remember that and the

Neobatistic view and I did so because those who hold to the former view, Neo Covenantal, are generally speaking

in churches and denominations that more directly flow from the theological tradition of John Calvin and the later Puritans.

And those who hold to the latter view, the neobaptistic view, generally speaking in those denominations who hold the Believer's baptism even

though some of them may have a reformed soteriology.

Of course as I speak on this subject I'm speaking generally and I'm not speaking

about any specific congregation or minister but those I consider neo-Covettors still hold to the doctrines of sovereign grace and covenant theology that developed from it.

But it seems to me that they have lost Calvin's cosmology and the eschatology brought

forward from it and refined by Abraham Kuiper, namely that this new man in Christ that

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