By Terry Applegate Two Laws of Forgiveness: Married vs. Unmarried Forgiveness is often misunderstood. In fact, most people (until spending some time in marriage) don’t realize that there are two laws for forgiveness; those for married couples and the second for the unmarried. Gender-Specific Forgiveness Standards in MarriageThe forgiveness statutes for the married are further…
Deut. 14:8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass. https://pocketcollege.com/transcript/RR130Z48.html IBL06: Sixth Commandment Dietary Laws Deuteronomy 14:1-21, dietary rules. “14 Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not…
Scripture lays out the definition of right and wrong in laws, cases, and jurisdictions. You would think this would be authoritative enough for Christians to believe and act in terms of it. But wizards are always ready to test that belief. They will challenge the authority of Biblical law citing philosophy or history or some…
A central characteristic of the churches and of modern preaching and Biblical teaching is antinomianism, an anti-law position. The antinomian believes that faith frees the Christian from the law, so that he is not outside the law but is rather dead to the law. There is no warrant whatsoever in Scripture for antinomianism. The expression,…
– by R.J. Rushdoony In order to understand Biblical law, it is necessary to understand also certain basic characteristics of that law. First, certain broad premises or principles are declared. These are declarations of basic law. The Ten Commandments give us such declarations. The Ten Commandments are not therefore laws among laws, but are the…
Law is in every culture religious in origin. Because law governs man and society, because it establishes and declares the meaning of justice and righteousness, law is inescapably religious, in that it establishes in practical fashion the ultimate concerns of a culture. Accordingly, a fundamental and necessary premise in any and every study of law…
What jurisdiction? You mean this website? Not just this website. Reality. The universe. Time. Ethics. The whole enchilada. Everything. And then some. Christ (incarnate Torah) Rules through His LawWord (inscripturated Torah), gives meaning, definition, life, health, and context to all things. Thus the study of, and listening and obedience to, His LawWord is to be…
Introduction to the Law The Importance of the Law by R.J. Rushdoony When Wyclif wrote of his English Bible that “This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people, and for the people,” his statement attracted no attention insofar as his emphasis on the centrality of Biblical law was concerned. That law…