“Those who hold to the Christian faith see law as an ultimate order of the universe. It is the invariable factor in a variable world, the unchanging order in a changing universe. Law for the Christian is thus absolute, final, and an aspect of God's creation and a manifestation of His nature. In terms of this, the Christian can hold that right is right, and wrong is wrong, that good and evil are unchanging moral categories rather than relative terms. From an evolutionary perspective, however, we have a very different concept of law. The universe is evolving, and the one constant factor is change. It is impossible therefore to speak of any absolute law. The universe has evolved by means of chance variations, and no law has any ultimacy or absolute truth. As a result when we talk about law, we are talking about social customs or mores and about statistical averages. Social customs change, and what was law to the ancient Gauls is not law to the modern Frenchmen. We can expect men's ideas of law to change as their societies change and evolve. Moreover, statistics give us an average and a mean which determine normality, and our ideas of law are governed by what is customary and socially accepted.” LawSocietyEvolutionAuthorityTheologyPresuppositionalismTheonomyUltimates Book:Law and Liberty Source: Law and Liberty
“God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.” LawReligionPenaltiesHomosexualDeath Penalty Author:R.J. Rushdoony
“The goal is the developed Kingdom of god, the New Jerusalem, a world order under god's law.” WorldLawReligionOrderGoalKingdomsKingdom Of GodJerusalemWorld Order Author:R.J. Rushdoony
“Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.” MenNeedsLawRighteousnessFewerGodlyGodly Man Author:R.J. Rushdoony
“Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom.” MadeLawResultsAbsolutesAnarchism Author:R.J. Rushdoony
“Only a law-order which holds to the primacy of God's law can bring forth true freedom, freedom for justice, truth, and godly life. Freedom as an absolute is simply an assertion of man's "right" to be his own god; this means a radical denial of God's law-order. "Freedom" thus is another name for the claim by man to divinity and autonomy. It means that man becomes his own absolute.” MenMeanLawOrderNamesJusticeClaimsAbsolutesRadicalDenialDivinityGodlyAutonomyAssertionTrue FreedomPrimacyJustice TruthGodly Life Author:R.J. Rushdoony
“There can be no tolerance in a law-system for another religion. Toleration is a device used to introduce a new law-system as a prelude to a new intolerance... Every law-system must maintain its existence by hostility to every other law-system and to alien religious foundations or else it commits suicide” LawUsedReligiousExistenceFoundationSuicideToleranceCommitAliensDevicesIntroducingIntoleranceHostilityTolerationPrelude Author:R.J. Rushdoony
“Segregation or separation is thus a basic principle of Biblical Law with respect to religion and morality. Every attempt to destroy this principle is an effort to reduce society to its lowest common denominator.” LawCommonEffortPrinciplesMoralitySeparationBiblicalLowestSegregationCommon DenominatorBasic PrinciplesLowest Common Denominator Author:R.J. Rushdoony
“It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society” LawCultureSourceLawyer Author:R.J. Rushdoony
“One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and state . . . Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.” MeanStatesLawChurchJusticeChristianityEnemyDemocracyStandardsChurch And StateHeresyDemocracies HaveHavoc Author:R.J. Rushdoony
“Few things are more commonly misunderstood than the nature and meaning of theocracy. It is commonly assumed to be a dictatorial rule by self-appointed men who claim to rule for God. In reality, theocracy in Biblical law is the closest thing to a radical libertarianism that can be had.” MenSelfRealityLawClaimsRadicalLibertarianismClosestBiblicalMisunderstoodTheocracy Author:R.J. Rushdoony
“Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality.” TwoProblemTodayLawChristianityMoralityConflictHumanismTwo Religions Author:R.J. Rushdoony
“Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.” MenStatesLawAimSalvationHumanismSavingHumanistic Author:R.J. Rushdoony
“Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.” MenLawEssentialsRemakes Author:R.J. Rushdoony
“Biblical law permits voluntary slavery because it recognizes that some people are not able to maintain a position of independence . . . The law is humane and also unsentimental. It recognizes that some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.” PeopleAbleLawReligionPositionIndependenceSlaverySlavePermitBiblicalHumane Author:R.J. Rushdoony
“The only true order is founded on Biblical Law. All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion.” ChristianLawOrderReligiousBiblicalAnti Christian Author:R.J. Rushdoony
“The triune God exercises total government over all things, and He requires us as His image-bearers to exercise government in Christ in our own spheres in terms of His law.” GovernmentLawTermChristExerciseAll ThingsSpheres Author:R.J. Rushdoony
