A Truthful Society The Law of God and Public Policy: The Good Society (6) A good society can only exist on the foundation of stable truth. First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high ...
A Gospel-Friendly Society The Law of God and Public Policy: The Good Society (5) Government must not impede the progress of the Gospel. First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we ...
Promoting and Preserving Dignity The Law of God and Public Policy: The Good Society (4) A good society preserves the dignity of all its members. First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, ...
Godly Lives The Law of God and Public Policy: The Good Society (3) Government must be on the side of godliness. First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful ...
Peaceful and Quiet The Law of God and Public Policy: The Good Society (2) In a good society, people live in safety, without fear. First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that ...
Just and Good The Law of God and Public Policy: The Good Society (1) A just society is a good society. “You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause ...
Distributive Justice The Law of God and Public Policy: Justice (7) We must care for those who cannot care for themselves. “For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, ...
Retributive Justice The Law of God and Public Policy: Justice (6) Deliberate acts of injustice are to be punished. “For every breach of trust, whether it is for an ox, for a donkey, for a sheep, for a cloak, or for any kind of lost thing, of which one says, ‘This is ...
Restorative Justice The Law of God and Public Policy: Justice (5) Injustice must not be allowed to continue; justice must always be restored. “When one man’s ox butts another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and share its price, and the dead beast also they shall ...
Preventive Justice The Law of God and Public Policy: Justice (4) We are our neighbors’ keeper. “If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, he who started the fire shall make restitution.” Exodus 22:6 The second facet ...