My question is about Christian theocracy and if we as Christians should try to force the secular world to submit to Christ by enforcing sin as crime. For example, let’s assume a same sex couple, a divorced couple and a unequally yoked couple all want to get married. Should we criminalize it to prevent it from happening or is that going beyond out duty as Christians?
It does not help sinners to merely make sins illegal by worldly governmental laws. We
all need during this life a real change of heart (a "new heart"), to be 'born anew', redeemed, and that's the
only thing that can actually help sinners.
So, for example, when the United States enacted
Prohibition (* see footnote at end) to end alcohol sales, in the 1920s -- and drunkenness is listed in the Bible as sin -- that did
not make the people less sinful, or not for long.
Soon enough, people that wanted to get drunk were able to get alcohol and get drunk anyway, but more -- organized criminals began to use alcohol sales as a way to get rich, and criminal activity
increased.
The law lead to
more evil, not less.
The only way to help humanity is through telling people the good news, the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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* -- The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution–which banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors–ushered in a period in American history known as Prohibition. Prohibition was ratified by the states on January 16, 1919 and officially went into effect on January 17, 1920, with the passage of the Volstead Act. Despite the new legislation, Prohibition was difficult to enforce. The increase of the illegal production and sale of liquor (known as “bootlegging”), the proliferation of speakeasies (illegal drinking spots) and the accompanying rise in gang violence and other crimes led to waning support for Prohibition by the end of the 1920s. In early 1933, Congress adopted a resolution proposing a 21st Amendment to the Constitution that would repeal the 18th. The 21st Amendment was ratified on December 5, 1933, ending Prohibition.
Prohibition
Where I live the trees have laminated root disease that makes the forest dangerous to walk in on windy days. The trees are being felled but replaced somewhere. I’m not sure where, we had 19 felled here and I haven’t seen where they have replanted. But as you can imagine the root system is healthiest when the leaves and roots are balanced.
