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God is not at a distance from history, uninvolved and on the periphery, an interested spectator or distant 'first cause;' rather he is governing all things by his providence and wisdom.
The biblical tradition rediscovered during the Reformation viewed theocracy and democracy as necessary compliments: human rule flowed from God's rule.The Mission of God, 121
In reality, it is not the Puritan mind that is suffering from an over-realized eschatology, it is surely the two kingdoms theorists who suffer from an under-realized soteriology! Salvation is limited to personal salvation and does not have the kingdom of God in view for history.Mission of God, 385
We can no longer afford to be pious functional deists as Christians who regard God as no longer active in history to judge & bless nations in terms of obedience to the gospel & who, whilst speaking of biblical inspiration deny its material authority & application in the world.
We do not owe the truth to those who want to use it for evil.
we must recognize that God's basic institution throughout Scripture, starting from the Garden of Eden, is the covenant family. From a biblical point of view, all modern forms of government are variations on monarchism, of rule from the top down, whereas in Scripture, the family is the central social government.Mission of God, 67
Theonomy simply means God's law and implies the abiding validity of the moral law in every sphere of life, including the civil, so that the general equity of those laws with civil or judicial implications should be candidly applied in society.Mission of God, 62
It's hard to convince people that the loving God they can't see sacrificed His Son for sinners & calls them too repentance to escape the wrath to come, when a church they can see celebrates & indulges the very sins that sent His Son to the cross.
Either God exists or he does not. There is no middle ground. Both cannot be true. No amount of philosophical trickery can hide from the greatest antithesis of them all ... We cannot leave this question for the intellectuals, scientists, philosophers and theologians alone ... We must answer it for ourselves.
The laws of the Bible, outside the Ten Commandments, are case laws, and I have been arguing that largely, the Reformed faith has viewed it as the duty of the Christian ruler to extend the equity of these cases to cover whatever details they find in their own society.Mission of God, 343
In the providence of God we are placed in a community (neighbourhood/church/family) to show compassion by taking responsibility for the needs around us. The Puritans did not contract this task out to the state and its welfare programs.
Since Christ's purpose is the reconciling of all things to himself (Col. 1:20), the transformation of culture by faithfulness to the gospel and the total word of God applied to all of life is central to the Christian's calling.Mission of God, 366
His book is a good example of what happens when well-meaning evangelicals fail to clearly define justice and righteousness in terms of obedience to the law of God and instead import present cultural fads into their interpretative exercise: they end up with a hybrid abstraction that in the name of being biblical, reads humanistic views of justice onto Christianity.Mission of God 6.5
As soon as the state steps outside the sphere this sphere it plays God and offers every form of counterfeiting of the Word of God. In such a case it will invariably persecute the family and church, destroying localism and people's freedom to obey God's law. Such a state will be judged by God and once a sate commands what God forbids, if Christ is truly Lord, then the Christian has the religious duty to resist.Mission of God, 4.3
Where man's law commands what God forbids, civil disobedience becomes a Christian duty. Christ alone, in his word and by his Spirit, speaks the word of life and salvation, not the state.Mission of God, 4.2
The key problem that we face as Christians today with modern concepts of freedom is that they are political and not theological. However, when liberty is defined politically and not theologically, freedom is destroyed because non-Christian thought is dialectical -always trying to unite the opposing ideas of nature and freedom -and does not have the resources to keep a social order from collapsing into tyranny or anarchy.Mission of God, 4.2
pagan philosophy was essentially statist; substituting God, it saw the state as the incarnation or locus of the divine in history. This had been the view of all the great ancient realms, including the Egyptian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, and Roman empires, where the rulers were viewed and worshipped as godsMission of God, 4.1
Our abandonment of the living God and his law for the god of pluralism, has given us a new law-order that is having revolutionary consequences today, seen in the increasing lawlessness, tyranny, and depravity of Western culture.Mission of God, 3.7
Adult-sized petulant children are a menace to society and indicative of its collapse. History should matter to us because history matures us.Mission of God, 111
as the Greek lexicons show, fulfilment certainly denotes that Christ is the object (end) of the law and the prophets; he is also the perfect manifestation of its requirements, and as the Lord and giver of the law, he has also come to implement and put into force his law.The Mission of God, 96
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there have been changes in administration since the Promised Land of the Israelites, but not changes in substance.Mission of God, 207
The concern of God's word is with impartial justice and with righteousness. Nowhere does God permit partiality in men's dealings with men based on their economic status; such an attitude is a perversion of justice.
In the Bible, the original meaning of the word justice is coextensive with righteousness, so they are interchangeable or related themes that often come together in the same verse (Ps. 33:5; Job 37:23). They are related terms because justice is an aspect of God's righteous character, as are mercy and compassion.Mission of God, 6.3
for much of Canada, hopes of a great Christian dominion developing across the North through the spread of the gospel were nurtured, as revealed by the founding text of the Canadian Dominion (Psalm 72:8). On Parliament Hill in Ottawa, the Parliament Buildings remain testament to this Christian vision, most notably, the Peace Tower and the Memorial Chamber, where Scripture is engraved everywhere, inside and out.Mission of God, 87
In mid-nineteenth century Protestant Ontario, millenarianism raised its head again in the form of the exported Irvingite movement (named after the English millenial preacher Edward Irving) and in the even more disruptive Millerites -followers of the converted American deist William Miller (by this point a Baptist), whose detailed calculations from biblical prophecy had him predicting the end of the world in the years 1843 or 1844, followed by a literal millennial (that is, thousand-year) reign. This eventually led to the founding of the Seventh Day Adventist church. This was quickly followed in the 1860s by the dispensationalist millennial crusade of J.N. Darby and C.I. Schofield, a movement emerging from the Plymouth Brethren in EnglandMission of God, 85
in the economy of human life, the family lays the foundation for human society for the believer and the non-believer alike and is the nursery of knowledge, worship, government, and all social order. Thus, when the family collapses, all society breaks down.Mission of God, 67
The plain reality is that the biblical faith and sense of cultural mission that gave us so much in both the British Commonwealth and the United States, with the rule of law, a free market, representative government, freedom of conscience and religion, and the freedom of self-government of the Christian church and family, was given to us in large measure by the influence of our Puritan forebears.Mission of God, 24
A new generation now drifts without purpose and vision, with little confidence that they have a future, leaving us vulnerable to a growing religious vision of state power and authority that sees its total regulation and control as the only solution to the collapsing social order.Mission of God, 25
Law is the condition of life in God's world. All things are governed by his law-word. All civil law is the legislation of somebodies morality. There is no neutral law. Do you want the righteous law of God, inscribed in stone by the very finger of God, or the tyrannical law of sinful man? Take your pick and live with the consequences.https://x.com/DrJoeBoot/status/1806717057435603010
we cannot distance ourselves from culture, or hide from it. We must understand its meaning and learn to think in biblical categories about it. Christ is over and transcends culture as creator, redeemer and king.Mission of God, 366
The example of Oliver Cromwell shows that Christian withdrawal from politics on the ground that no good can be achieved is an abdication of God-given responsibility which ensures the short-term triumph of ungodliness.Mission of God, 359
What then is the end in view for biblical penology? It is a vision of social peace, and hope for a godly culture that is surrendered to the righteousness and justice of a covenant-keeping God, whose great love is made manifest by the restitution effected by Christ's redemptive work, and his grade expressed socially in a system of restorative justice where human flourishing within self-giving community can take place.Mission of God, 354
Despite Canadian pride in our peacefulness, according to the UN international comparisons, Canada has a rate of police-reported criminal incidents among the highest in the world - almost double that of the United States. Furthermore, our failure to punish incorrigible violent offenders and murderers with the biblically-required death penalty (Gen. 9:5-6; Num. 35:16; Deut.21:18-21), in the name of 'rehabilitation' and an enlightened 'humaneness' has led to rampant evil.Mission of God, 345
We coddle the criminal today and thereby show little care for the victim. At the same time we legally murder tens of thousands of unborn babies every year (right up to term in Canada as we are without any abortion law) and want to practice infanticide, euthanize the elderly and assist depressed people to commit suicide with a physician. Clearly then, the ending of life is not the real objection to capital punishment; we appear anxious to end innocent life in any number of ways - we just don't want to punish the guilty.Mission of God, 344
A culture that decriminalizes homosexual practice is one on the brink of total revolution and cultural death.Mission of God, 340
the very term 'homosexuality' was a word invented in the late nineteenth-century by a German psychologist, Karoly Maria Benkert. The purpose of the use of this word (replacing in large measure the use of sodomy in both law and popular parlance) has been to identify and normalize the idea that some people have a homosexual (sameness) orientation, character and genetic reality that is fixed, so that moral action is not really a consideration in the practice - it is just a matter of 'nature'.Mission of God, 333-334
The myth of Christianity bringing about the "Dark Ages" in Europe... propagated successfully by French philosophes has long since been debunked as spurious, the fifteenth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1981 dismissing the label as completely unacceptable historically. In fact the early centuries of the Christian era in the West were, as Rodney Start points out, "one of the greatest innovative eras of mankind, as technology was developed and put into use on a scale no civilization had previously known."The Mission of God, 124
It is simply not possible to account for the liberty created by Western civilization without recognizing the specifically Christian and biblical faith that formed its actuating principle.The Mission of God, 121
For Augustine and the entire medieval period, the thousand-year reign of Revelation 20, like many uses of numbers in Revelation, was symbolic. This text, for them, was in fact dealing with the whole period between Christ's first and second advents at the end of history.The Mission of God, 83
A distinctly Christian view of all things centres on recognising Christ as the religious foundation to all knowledge.
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