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To: Raycpa
Yes, legally if the state enacts the law. If I disagree I take my issue to my reps in the legislature. I don't decide the law doesn't apply to me. The difference is either a nation of laws or a nation of men based on anarchy.

About 150 years ago, we started losing "common law," the centuries-long process of applying Biblical standards to everyday life. The replacement was "statute law," the law of, by, and for the lawyers. The torah contains around 635 case law applications of the ten commandments. The "Federal Register" publishes a phone book's worth of new "laws" every day.

Totalitarian regimes normally enact so many laws that everyone is always guilty of something.

But, as long as we have the jury system, that neighborhood theocracy of men who place their hands on the Bible, and swear and oath to the God of the Bible, to uphold biblical standards of justice, all is not lost. Jury nullification is the solution to statist arrogance.

117 posted on 02/21/2005 9:42:32 AM PST by TomSmedley (Calvinist, optimist, home schooling dad, exuberant husband, technical writer)
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To: TomSmedley
I follow what you say besides this
The torah contains around 635 case law applications of the ten commandments.
The Law of Moses was a special deal made between the Hebrews and God in which they agreed to follow laws given by God. The laws given by God were intended to make the Hebrews holy or set apart. They were not intended to be laws for all nations. Laws for all nations were in fact in effect since Noah and still apply to all but they do not include the laws given to Moses except that we can study these laws to help us understand how God wants us to live as Christians.
125 posted on 02/21/2005 9:53:06 AM PST by Raycpa
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