BY THIS STANDARD-Greg L. Bahnsen

[Wilsonwas]

Originally Posted by Esaias

Explain how you would oppose a social order founded on obedience to Christ alone while "preaching obedience to Christ alone"? That makes no sense. Does obedience to Christ alone mean that we should oppose the criminalization of robbery, rape, murder? That we should stand against the idea of people looking to the Bible for guidance?

Absurd.

That society so long as its govenment remains limited to arbitrating between disputes, maintaining law consistant with just the ten commandments, maintaining interstate commerce and provides for comman defense even if theocratic would be fine.

It is the nature of humans with power to desire more, and since the fall of Adam, to corrupt....the limits would creep, much like the results evident in our current republic, to lean either toward a band of theocracy that limits eventually even thought to its dogma, and view of doctrine, or a band of Atheistic humanism that eventually leads to socialism.

It is the erosion of these limits on gooberment power over individual or group, that always leads to tyranny so long as those humans in charge remain Adam's seed in its failed state.

For this reason I oppose both theocracy and socialism, prefering a min-archist, volunteerist form. At least until Christ reigns in the absense of the enemy.

The US constitution, represents the closest humanity has come to a government that limited in power - it is imperfect but preferred to any other form exhibited on earth currently. The imperfection has allowed this to wane toward tyranny of the citified majority of voters, and the corruption of global corporatism....

A theocratic government will wane toward the kind of tyranny evident in areas controlled by the Taliban- which would be fine for you perhaps were you in the upper roles of the ruling class, but unfortunate if you are resistant to any particilar brand of interpretation or doctrine contained under the "brand" christianity thst may be different from your own.

Evidence of how this could be contentious is available within our churches, and even the microcosm of this forum where huge difference exists regarding Deut. 22, beards, etc. Such a society of imperfect men, and satan "going about as a roaring lion", would regress to civil war in a matter of generations.