In Matthew 6:9ff Jesus teaches us how to pray. I find that what he teaches us challenges some basic, and often unspoken, presuppositions of the modern Christian. The contemporary believer believes that God is concerned about spiritual things primarily; things like prayer, going to church, looking forward to heaven. Jesus does start with a spiritual…
Tag: the Bible
More on God and Government
I find that people are afraid of the concept of getting our ideas from God’s Law in the Bible for use in our own Civil Government. Of course, the very same Biblical Law is one of the foundations of law in Western Civilization! In other words, we already did this as a society over hundreds…
The Bible and Government
ThirstyJon is currently reading: I read an article today arguing that the Bible should not be used in defense of public policy views. The author makes some good points. I am also in the midst of a discussion on this very blog. One commenter suggested that we be very careful about wanting to make our…