Our increasingly humanistic laws, courts and legislators are giving us a new morality. They tell us, as they strike down laws resting upon biblical foundations, that morality cannot be legislated, but what they offer is not only legislated morality, but salvation by law.
Rousas John RushdoonyHumanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.
Rousas John RushdoonyOur basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality.
Rousas John RushdoonyHumanism believes in salvation by works of law. By vast appropriations of money, and dedicated labor, [it] is trying to save all nations and races, all men from all problems, in the hopes of creating paradise on earth. [It] is trying to bring peace on earth and goodwill among men by acts of state and works of law, not by Jesus Christ.
Rousas John RushdoonyLaw is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.
Rousas John RushdoonyThe triune God exercises total government over all things, and He requires us as His image-bearers to exercise government in Christ in our own spheres in terms of His law.
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Before the rise of Deism, Calvin condemned the pragmatic deism which relegated God to heaven and left the government of the world to men.
Rousas John RushdoonyThe Bible is God's law-word which must govern every sphere of life and thought.
Rousas John RushdoonyFreedom in the Biblical sense is always at a price; it is a costly gift, and it requires great things of us.
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To be fearless in the Lord does not require us to be great and powerful men, but only to believe in the great and powerful God.
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