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Unless there's a cross on top of the White House, Biblical arguments have NO place in laws which affect people's taxes, inheritance, and property.

How do atheists explain the obvious benefit, both economically, educationally, socially, and spiritually, that America receives when its people are walking with God, ministering through church and missions, and creating and basing laws and moral conduct on Biblical teachings?

The Law or general biblical principles can never decide individual cases justly because there are always mitigating circumstances calling for compassionate mercy on the practical level.

There is no biblical authority to put anything into law based on biblical beliefs.

The Biblical accounts of God - to - human relationship and affairs going from the very obvious to the very mysterious, starting with creation and going through a multitude of stages, the fall, the expulsion and curse, trials and covenants, rebellion and Law, culminating with God's «Ultimate Provision» for Salvation, the «Good News» of the Lord Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, the «New Covenant,» the «Millennial Kingdom» to come, the end of time, and the afterlife, are the basis for the Christian Theology on «Time Dispensations.»

Obviously, that biblical law was written by ignorant men, and because humans are changeable, we have «evolved» our beliefs on such things and do not recognize what the biblical laws require — because they are immoral.

Ahh... did I mention «Biblical Law» or is your mind placing words on the screen that are not really there

The biblical word says the government shall rest on his shoulders, which means that the love, respect and kindness the bible breathes i life should always serve as inspiration for our laws, Which indeed it does in every major democracy.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

For example, William Wilberforce (who is largely responsible for bringing the abolitionist movement to bear in the English speaking world) fought & successfully changed the British Empire's laws based on his very * conservative * biblical understanding.

Anti-PAS laws make practical sense in the real world because they are founded on sound biblical principles.

Gradually that tie has largely gone, but the christians in the USA at least want to impose their religion on the rest of us despite the First Amendment: biblical texts on public buildings, their god on the currency, their religious beliefs to be law, christian prayer at public events, etc..

I'd rather get on the wrong side of Christian fundamentalists if it were in America as laws exist preventing them from exacting their Biblical vengeance.

What would a day be in the Divine circadian cycle of an omnimodal, omnipotent being, 24 hours, 24 billion years, 24 milliseconds??? Nowhere in the Bible coes it say that evolution does not exist within the living realm, but Simon Peter does say that to the I Am»... one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one day...» (the Bible DOES recognize the effects of animal husbandry, which is a form of artificially - induced evolution on livestock species, and narrates accounts of Divine intervention to influence it, so you can not factually say that it is outside the realm of Divine probability by biblical accounts, as Divine probability contains, by textbook definition, the sum of the laws of nature.

They believed the Law was given to them, and they dramatized this conviction through the biblical narrative about Moses receiving the tablets from the very hand of God on Mount Sinai.

Our forefathers based the laws of this country on Biblical beliefs because they believed in God.

And furthermore, who are we to impose our biblical morality on others through the rule of law?

And we must be wary about trying to get our government to enforce Biblical guidelines on all the people in a country, for if it can be done with «Christian» laws, it can also be done at a later time with «Muslim» laws, or «Mormon» laws, or whatever religion is in «power» at the time.

In fact, the very phrase «law written on the heart» is biblical; it comes from the New Testament book of Romans.

Although several states had established churches, they were not theocracies but rather had Christianity as their foundation, and their laws and civil governments were based on biblical principles.

Religious proponents of international law could draw on the prophets for biblical support: Amos, Hosea, Micah and others discerned Yahweh's law as both impartial and international, striking against the arrogant pretensions of all people and nations who violate human rights in the belief that God is on their side.

Yes many of the founding fathers were Christian and many of our laws are based on certain biblical passages, but a lot of them were pretty basic but good ideas, «if it's not yours don't take it.»

While our secular legal system is based on Christian custom, the main point is that Biblical teaching should not be the basis for deciding laws for a nation of diverse religious viewpoints.

Hey, Gabriel, since you're so devout and want to follow Biblical law to the letter, we're relying on you to turn yourself in if you've ever eaten shrimp or played with your weenie.

Likewise the government is not allowed to make policy based on Biblical tenets, but based on law!

Finally, the writer [apparently] operates on the mistaken view that if we can only get at least 51 percent of the voting populace to be swayed sufficiently by our coalesced, power structure, emotional appeals, and biblical truth (used only where it will work), then we can pass laws outlawing abortion.

I can not support blue laws on the basis of some supposed biblical injunction against working on Sunday, for there is no such injunction.

Various Biblical writers entertained the hope that the Lord would take away the stony heart from his people and give them a heart of flesh, or in differing terms, that he would write his law on their hearts.

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Tuesday could be cat liberation day in Orange County if commissioners change their animal control law to allow felines to roam freely.Critics say the change, which would allow cats to roam without collars or tags, could hurt the animals it is designed to protect.But supporters say the new law recognizes cats for what they are - independent creatures with minds of their own.For some, the issue has taken on biblical proportions.

What is the law but a necessarily finite effort on our part to find some earthly vision which at least partakes in a small way of that larger Biblical vision offered us by the Hebrew prophets Jeremiah, Isaiah, Amos, and by the one who followed them, Jesus Christ?

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