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Originally Posted by aCultureWarrior
What is the role of a righteous government as seen through the Eyes of God?
Yet I didn't see anything that specifically deals with the role of civil government in your post.
Here's what I called the "Most important posts in Part 1" because one shows what God expects of civil government and the second shows what happens when civil government doesn't legislate wisely.
Exodus 18:21 But select capable men from all the people—men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain—and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.
Deuteronomy 1:13 Choose some wise, understanding and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will set them over you.
1 Peter 2:13–14 13 Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human authority: whether to the emperor, as the supreme authority, 14 or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right.
1 Kings 3:28 When all Israel heard the verdict the king had given, they held the king in awe, because they saw that he had wisdom from God to administer justice.
Proverbs 11:14 For lack of guidance a nation falls,
but victory is won through many advisers.
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3310948&postcount=4195
And Part 2:
As we've seen throughout our society in the past 4+ decades with pornography, no fault divorce, cohabitation, abortion, and now homosexuality organized into a "Collective", the laws that once set a "moral guideline" for our society are no longer written to "do good", hence the two other institutions ordained by God for the governance of men (the Famiy and Church) are failing too..
In 1969, in Stanley v Georgia
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/n...ases&id=h-2943
SCOTUS ruled in favor of pornography, hence opening up the flood gates to where it is a multi billion dollar industry today.
http://www.familysafemedia.com/porno...tatistics.html
California Governor Ronald Reagan signed into law no fault divorce legislation in late 1969, other states quickly followed.
http://www.divorcemediationinstitute...ed-states.html
It was in the early 1970's that cohabitation laws were decriminalized,
http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/users/f/f...s/cohabit.html
abortion was made legal, and the America Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from it's list of mental disorders, hence most states decriminalized it. As shown below, the two other institutions that God ordained for the governance of men were gravely effected as well:
The Family: US divorce and cohabitation rates increase since 1970
http://www.familyinamerica.org/index...d=33&cat_id=14
Church attendance in decline since 1970
http://www.familyfacts.org/charts/62...e-is-declining
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3310958&postcount=4196
Now if anyone would like to step forward and show how good secular humanist laws have been for the US in the past 46 years, then please do so.
Originally Posted by aCultureWarrior
What is the role of a righteous government as seen through the Eyes of God?
To uphold what God has deemed just, and to fight what he deems unjust, and you get a pretty good idea of what's important to him in these passages from the prophet: ...
Yet I didn't see anything that specifically deals with the role of civil government in your post.
Here's what I called the "Most important posts in Part 1" because one shows what God expects of civil government and the second shows what happens when civil government doesn't legislate wisely.
Exodus 18:21 But select capable men from all the people—men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain—and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.
Deuteronomy 1:13 Choose some wise, understanding and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will set them over you.
1 Peter 2:13–14 13 Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human authority: whether to the emperor, as the supreme authority, 14 or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right.
1 Kings 3:28 When all Israel heard the verdict the king had given, they held the king in awe, because they saw that he had wisdom from God to administer justice.
Proverbs 11:14 For lack of guidance a nation falls,
but victory is won through many advisers.
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3310948&postcount=4195
And Part 2:
As we've seen throughout our society in the past 4+ decades with pornography, no fault divorce, cohabitation, abortion, and now homosexuality organized into a "Collective", the laws that once set a "moral guideline" for our society are no longer written to "do good", hence the two other institutions ordained by God for the governance of men (the Famiy and Church) are failing too..
In 1969, in Stanley v Georgia
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/n...ases&id=h-2943
SCOTUS ruled in favor of pornography, hence opening up the flood gates to where it is a multi billion dollar industry today.
http://www.familysafemedia.com/porno...tatistics.html
California Governor Ronald Reagan signed into law no fault divorce legislation in late 1969, other states quickly followed.
http://www.divorcemediationinstitute...ed-states.html
It was in the early 1970's that cohabitation laws were decriminalized,
http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/users/f/f...s/cohabit.html
abortion was made legal, and the America Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from it's list of mental disorders, hence most states decriminalized it. As shown below, the two other institutions that God ordained for the governance of men were gravely effected as well:
The Family: US divorce and cohabitation rates increase since 1970
http://www.familyinamerica.org/index...d=33&cat_id=14
Church attendance in decline since 1970
http://www.familyfacts.org/charts/62...e-is-declining
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3310958&postcount=4196
Now if anyone would like to step forward and show how good secular humanist laws have been for the US in the past 46 years, then please do so.