Biblical Law
This inspiring study of God's Law knits together the amazing history and development of the only system of law ever revealed by God himself. Dr. Skousen shows how nations large and small prospered according to their obedience to these inspired principles. He presents God's Law in 650 pages of delightful and fast-paced reading---truly a timeless treasure.When Moses gave God's Law to the ancient Israelites, he said it could make them the most prosperous people in the world. The Founding Fathers recognized that promise, and labored to embody those same principles in the U.S. Constitution. Two centuries of amazing development prove the wisdom of emulating God's Law.
Dr. Skousen highlights various Biblical prophets who pointed to a day when God's Law would be restored in its fullest. Before that time, there would be a period of cleansing and reform, requiring a generation of God-fearing people trained and motivated for that day. Dr. Skousen has prepared this study in hopes that it might help Americans everywhere understand God's Law, and realize their role in preparing for the divine destiny now unfolding for this great nation.
Dr. Skousen highlights various Biblical prophets who pointed to a day when God's Law would be restored in its fullest. Before that time, there would be a period of cleansing and reform, requiring a generation of God-fearing people trained and motivated for that day. Dr. Skousen has prepared this study in hopes that it might help Americans everywhere understand God's Law, and realize their role in preparing for the divine destiny now unfolding for this great nation.
In spite of the fact that God’s Law provides workable answers to modern society’s multitude of festering problems, Jewish adherents have mixed it with folklore and faulty interpretations while Christians have rejected it completely as being either outdated or irrelevant. Meanwhile, the institutions of modern society are in deep trouble: nothing government manages seems to work! The truth is that God’s Law was, and still is—as King David said—the perfect law of righteousness . . . the ultimate guide to how to treat others with respect and love. After a lengthy introduction that makes clear the confusing teachings of the Apostle Paul concerning the status of the law for Christians, God’s Law attempts to organize, analyze, and explain the Spirit of the Mosaic Law and what it means today, not only for Christians, but for civil governments as well. If you want to gain a better understanding of the mind of God and how He views fairness, study God’s Law.
To attempt to study Scripture without studying its law is to deny it. To attempt to understand Western civilization apart from the impact of Biblical law within it and upon it is to seek a fictitious history and to reject twenty centuries and their progress.The Institutes of Biblical Law has as it's purpose a reversal of the present trend. It is called "Institutes" in the older meaning of that word, i.e., fundamental principles, here of law, because it is intended as a beginning, as an instituting consideration of that law which must govern society, and which shall govern society under God. It is a modern heresy that holds that the law of God has no meaning nor any binding force for man today. It is an aspect of the influence of humanistic and evolutionary thought on the church and it posits an evolving and developing god. This "dispensational" god expressed himself in law in an earlier age, then later expressed himself by grace alone, and is now perhaps to express himself in still another way. But this is not the God of Scripture, whose grace and law remain the same in every age, because He, as the sovereign and absolute Lord, changes not, nor does He need to change. The strength of man is the absoluteness of his God.
A Handbook of Bible Law is a comprehensive reference guide to biblical laws, principles, warnings, judgments, exhortations, and guidlines that are found throughout the entire Bible. The Bible is the voice of God speaking to man, and He has provided us with true, righteous, and timeless laws and commamdments which touch upon all aspects of life.
Contains 22 different topic headings including: -Law and Justice; -Food and Health; -Economic and Monetary Laws; -Personal Character Traits; -Family Law and Responsibilities; -Churches and Ministers; -Warfare and Military Laws; -Capital Offenses; -Animal regulations; etc.
Each topic heading has a brief commentary explaining key words and leading principles of that topic. Has an index guide to over 1500 biblical laws and principles on the topics covered.
This book may well be the most important and frequently used Bible reference book you will ever own.
Contains 22 different topic headings including: -Law and Justice; -Food and Health; -Economic and Monetary Laws; -Personal Character Traits; -Family Law and Responsibilities; -Churches and Ministers; -Warfare and Military Laws; -Capital Offenses; -Animal regulations; etc.
Each topic heading has a brief commentary explaining key words and leading principles of that topic. Has an index guide to over 1500 biblical laws and principles on the topics covered.
This book may well be the most important and frequently used Bible reference book you will ever own.
God's Law and the Right to Bear Arms
The Principle of Life
“As the alternative to reprobation, death, nothingness, and hell, God offers holiness, His law, and makes clear that His laws, the laws of holiness, are the way of life and the principle of life to all His covenant people, whose lives are grounded, not on nothings, but on the Lord”. (Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law, Vol. II, p. 574)
The 613 Commandments
“According to the rabbinic reckoning, the Torah has 613 laws.” “If, as Scripture makes clear, we are to live by what at most can be called 613 laws, then we cannot have a power-state nor a power-church, because their sphere of relevance is limited to a very few of those 613 laws. It means also that those laws of 613 which are not reserved by God to His own enforcements, or are given to state and church, are placed in the hands of individuals and families.” (Rushdoony, Institutes of Biblical Law, Vol. III, p 1,3)
Father's as God's Earthly Sovereigns
“According to the order and constitution of the divine government, man is appointed to rule in the affairs of this life. It is his prerogative to hold the reins of domestic government, and to direct the family interest, so as to bring them to a happy and honorable termination. This appointment of God is initiated in the order of the creation; and its propriety is manifested in the order of the fall.” (Rushdoony, Institutes of Biblical Law, Vol. I, p. 203)