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Rule of Faith and Life
A reader (who I’m not naming to protect the reader’s privacy) wrote the following comment, to which I will respond, line-by-line: “Turretinfan, you have espoused the view that for an act to be considered immoral, we must find the condemnation of such an act in Scripture.” This seems like an accurate description of my position,…
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GreenBaggins on Theonomy – A Response
Lane Keister at GreenBaggins has a post in which he argues that “Theonomy is Biblically-Theologically Wrong” (link). I can summarize it thus: “redemptive-historical theology removes the O.T. civil laws while natural law replaces them.” 1) Limited Agreement on the Church-State Distinction I agree that the church and state are not one and the same thing…
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What If Natural Law Teaches Theonomy?
Let’s grant, for the sake of the argument, some of the apparent theses of the “Two Kingdoms” folks, and assent to the idea of “natural law” as being the normative principle for civil governments. What if, just as the light of nature points us to find the revelation from God and read it in things…
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Natural Law, Theonomy, and Homosexual Marriage
R. Scott Clark has an interesting blog post up on the issue of Homosexual Marriage (link). RSC approaches the issue from the standpoint of “two kingdoms theology,” a viewpoint that I’m not sure I can fully embrace. Instead, I tend to self-identify with “theonomy” (a term that’s perhaps even more liable to confusion than “two…