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God’s Design of Society

God’s Design of Society. GOVERNANCE is a Zero-Sum Game. Principle #2: Seek to separate as peaceably as possible; submission to authority whenever possible. 3 Wisdom Principles. Principle #1: Pick your battle, but pick one!.

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God’s Design of Society

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  1. God’s Design of Society

  2. GOVERNANCE is a Zero-Sum Game

  3. Principle #2: Seek to separate as peaceably as possible; submission to authority whenever possible 3 Wisdom Principles Principle #1: Pick your battle, but pick one! Principle #2: Seek to separate as peaceably as possible; submission to authority whenever possible Principle #3: sell your proposal on a pragmatic basis

  4. Unbelief swallowing up a bit of the word of God Unbelief reinterpreting the Word of God within its own categories A portion of the Word of God presented to unbelief “Unbelief controls my interpretation of the situation”

  5. Unbelief forced into a contrast in many areas simultaneously Unbelief challenged at the foundational level A portion of the Word of God presented to unbelief as part of a network “The Word controls my interpretation of the situation” Empowered by Eschatological Truths

  6. Interlocking Framework Structure SALVATION CREATION FALL JUDGMENT

  7. Interlocking Framework of Biblical Revelation Life of the King: revelation, infallibility Specific prophecies of the Ideal Leader/ Messiah Birth of the King: Hypostatic Union Call of Abraham: revealed contract Sinai: revealed contract Prophets’ contract follow-up History of Jews from 2000 BC to 586 BC Creation: God, man, nature geology, dating, archeology

  8. THE “END” IN WESTERN ENLIGHTENMENT THOUGHT "That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hope and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruin – all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy that rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation henceforth be safely built.” Bertrand Russell, “A Free Man’s Religion” (1903) essay in Mysticism and Logic (1917) pg. 45-46.

  9. Who has the REAL“Evil problem”? Christian: Good / Evil mix is “abnormal” and temporary GOOD ∞ ∞ GOOD GOOD EVIL EVIL Pagan: Good / Evil mix is permanently “normal” GOOD ∞ ∞ EVIL

  10. “DOUBT of the RESURRECTION is the intellectual correlative of SIMPLE DEPRESSION” “Wherever it is clearly conceived as a metaphysical reality, resurrection annihilates every premise and every conclusion of the Marxist, Freudian, and Darwinian schools of thought. It erases the premise of Marxism by positing a version of humanity independent of the natural food chain; it cancels the premise of Freudianism by furnishing a degree of vitality so absolute that temporary sexual euphoria loses all meaning; and it destroys the whole point of evolution by bringing mankind to absolute physical perfection in an instant of transformation.” John Pilkey, Origin of the Nations (Master Books, 1984), 260, 281.

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