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The Constitution does not contain any laws that address morality, i.e., what’s right and wrong, i.e., is it wrong to murder, rape, steal, etc.

God’s Law includes moral law, i.e., it is wrong to murder, rape, steal, etc.

If we exclude the Bible from the laws we enact (man-designed laws), and we do not make reference to the Bible in our laws (simply like “Criminal laws shall not be contradictory to Scripture”, etc.), then our laws are based on people deciding what they want the law to be.

Which happens on a continual basis as legislatures meet.

However, men are born into sin and will typically be corrupt in their passage of bills into law. In fact, in America today, I’d say that is basically always the case.

There is virtually always one small subset of the population, a group or groups, each having a small leadership that runs the group, which is really behind the enactment of a law.

So our laws change constantly. In other words - we are changing our definition of RIGHT and WRONG every day, willy nilly, over time.

Yesterday you could walk your dog, today you need to pick up his poop and put it in a paper bag. Tomorrow, you’ll have to put in into a plastic bag.

We eventually wind up with, basically, the wealthy and powerful can do whatever they please and the poor see their families destroyed because they tried to raise their kids to be good people. In short, totalitarianism, where the law is simply a charade that keeps the powerful in power and everyone else living in tormented slavery. We’re not there yet, but I think many people can see where America is headed.

Another example of what we wind up with is all the laws and regulation related to finance: trillions in dubious debt securities floating around the markets - all managed by people who are the leaders of our society. And yet mom and pop businesses are either locked out of or forced into the capital markets establishment. The Bible addresses all parts of life, and a system of civil laws that is compatible with Scripture forms a perfect moral framework that can inform all areas of law.

Instead, today, we have laws, they just have no required connection at all to any sort of morality other than what can get packed into a law passed in the middle of the night. But see, morality was never addressed in our Constitution. The Preamble says “establish Justice”, but does not specify whose justice, by what standard are we measuring. So today we continue to redefine what justice means with every law passed by a perverse and crooked generation.

If we stop to actually read and logically and objectively analyze the Constitution, instead of merely screaming “Constitution !” as the answer to every question, we arrive at the inescapable conclusion that it leaves every door wide open for the problems we see in America today.

The most common misunderstanding of Biblically-based civil law is that unbelievers would be forced to be Christian and be subject to all sorts of “can’t drink, can’t wear certain clothes”, etc.

This is 100% NOT the case and reflects many misundertandings of the Bible, for example, alcoholic drink consumption is NOT prohibited, including (adding) our own man-made laws and stating or even implying that they are part of Scripture IS prohibited (so arbitrary clothing rules are unscriptural, while the indecent exposure laws we already have would be remain), etc.

Since what we have today in the legal system is rooted in earlier days when Christian influence was greater, it is, in fact, rooted in Scripture. Since so few people really know the Bible and our legal system and its history, few can make the connection for concepts like requiring witness testimony. We’ve just increasingly moved our civil laws away from Scriptural compliance because our Constitution did not formalize any connection to it.