Justice exists as an attribute of Creator God. He provides for humanity through his Word—Christ—as the arbitrator of man’s nature. We are mistaken to assume that equality is the basis of justice and that equality is the end goal. It is not. All men are...
Both society and justice are governed by God and his Word. Justice is a virtue, an attribute of God that gives to everyone what is his due. Justice requires an absolute conformity to the laws and principles of rectitude, or truth. This puts justice...
Lesson Three And he said to them, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Matthew 22:37-39 ESV How...
Lesson Two The history of the Bible and the history of American liberty are inseparable. The Bible is the source of individual liberty—salvation from sin through Jesus Christ. It is also the basis for external or civil government. It is extremely important to our...
Lesson One Part Two Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. Proverbs 14:34 1. What is the basic principle of American Federalism?The legacy of liberty bequeathed to us by all those who helped establish Constitutional government is Christian...
Lesson One Part One I can of my own self do nothing. John 5:30 1. What produces mankind’s ability to be self-governed? James Madison, writing in The Federalist, said: “…that honorable determination which animates every votary (vow or promise) of freedom: to...
Til we come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God…Ephesians 4:13 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Galatians 5:1 Christianity produces civil or...
The answer is its founding text (U.S. Constitution), the Bible and the God of the Bible! Righteousness exalts a nationProverbs 14:34 Our Founders almost universally taught that for liberty to exist and be sustained there must be character (virtue, morality) in the...
“Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ…” Ephesians 4:13 Christianity produces civil or political union in a different way than the world does. It...
