Posted on 08/17/2004 3:49:10 PM PDT by beaureguard
So government stands in for God?
Interesting theology.
Church of the Latter Day State Uber Alles?
All government?
Even the communist dictatorships, the socialist dens of Europe, the national socialists of yore, and the murderous Islamofascist thugs of Mohammedland?
Government gets its marching orders from God. Sounds like in the anti-gouging laws, Florida obeyed God really well.
You should be called "wrecker and ruiner Jack" not (ha ha ha) Repairman.
All government must answer to God. All. All.
The Mullahs like to say that.
I have my doubts.
If they won't obey God, then who do they obey, the next chanting loonie like you who comes down the pike with a siren song of how wonderful this or that or the other TOOL is?
All men must answer to God according to the New Testament.
I don't know much about the Sharia law you seem to be discussing, though.
Really. So which is right, the 1st Amendment or the 1st Commandment?
The whims of fifty-percent plus one, it seems.
Sharia and Sharia alike, that's what they say.
Seriously, Jehovah will have quite a few words with those mullahs about how cruel they were.
There is nothing in the Bible about there needing to be a 1st Amendment at all. There happens to be one, fine. If it gets abolished some day, so long as the government truly obeys God, then still fine.
And if a merchant charges too much in God's eyes, He'll have a word with them, too.
It's not my position to stand in for God, nor is it the state's. The state is just there, ideally, to keep us free to have the choices to please Him.
But that freedom means the freedom to do wrong, to. You can't force a man to God's way. You can only leave him free to find it himself.
"Who SHOULD they obey" if not God, to put it with the literality needed for you to catch the point.
This means no laws against any sin. Wrongo Jack.
Governments should obey their constituents, but only to the point they don't violate the rights of the individual constituents.
If the majority wish to vote to kill a man who has not harmed another, the government should not obey.
Government is there, according to the Founders, to protect the rights to life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness that God blessed us with.
Nothing more. Not to protect us from our own bad decisions. Not to protect us from our own mistakes. We have to be free to go to heaven or hell of our own choosing, limited only in our actions that hurt the rights of others.
No one has a God-given right to tell another what he must do with his property.
There should be laws against sin that harm others - theft, murder, rape, extortion, defamation, fraud, etc.
But if I choose to commit a sin that harms only myself, then that's between me and God. My redemption is in my choices, and His hands.
If it could ever be executed well enough, yes. Certainly when Jesus Christ returns and rules and reigns for 1000 years from Eretz Yisrael this will happen. The current band of clowns in Washington, Tallahassee, etc. would be counter productive to this kind of effort to establish Godliness, so it is a harm limiting measure to have such an amendment in such a case.
Bingo... gouging.
Gouging doesn't trespass on the God-given rights of another. No man has a right to the property of another, no matter what need he cites. Otherwise everytime you refuse a dollar to a beggar, you are harming him.
Further, laws against gouging are theft by proxy, a true sin.
You can't fight sin with sin.
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