GDL
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A proper theonomic approach recognizes wisdom in dealing with cultures Matt19:8.Our motives can be theonomic, but our application needs to be compatible the secular-based system. Affirming Fetal Rights does both.
I guess if you set aside rhetoric and delete my question mark such a question becomes reasonable.And you think that is a good thing...?
We're not remaining on the same page. A problem with brevity at times. I was referring to minimum prosecution to maintain order which it looks like you covered next.We no longer have slavery anymore (but the lack of fetal rights is a similar error).
I went there due to how I understood your minimum prosecutions statement. Wasn't OC thievery recompensed with restitution? I guess he was fortunate to meet the God of restitution on a secular cross. Maybe some theonomic input into Rome would have helped. At some point there are no more opportunities for conversions. Some cases are severe enough for quick capital punishment.I spoke of non-felons. Capital punishment for murder still fits in the secular law model. (I don't know why you went there.) Death row conversions are a thing, starting with one of the thieves on the cross next to Jesus.
The US legal model I assume. Doesn't the wisdom and principle of the theonomic model suggest looking at crimes God capitally punished and asking why? How is supporting fornication of almost any and all types (we're going towards all types) working for continuing stability or even lasting of the culture? First it was what, relax divorce laws, then the free sex culture, then the out of the closet agenda, then change marriage law, now however many genders anyone can contrive & chose your own, and the pedophilia coming to light. Ever wonder why God capitally punished such things? The slippery slope argument is not good technique but who can deny its applicability at times?There is no reason why
should ever be designated felonies in our current legal model. They certainly face judgment in the next life, but according to Paul, that is where some Christians come from [1 Corinthians 6:11].
- a consenting homosexual couple,
- a heterosexual couple that agrees to having an "open" marriage or
- a fortune-teller, etc.
So, sure, we discuss capital punishment, but as the topic thinkers note, there is no neutrality. It's one system of thought or another. That was one of the early questions in Theonomy - By What Standard?
You have noted per Rom1 the conditions that proliferate when people reject knowing God and He turns them over to their minds of no value, have you not? Surely, we (Christians) can do better in adding to the legislative thinking that is currently degenerating at an ever-faster rate. Who's to blame, the secular or the light?
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