<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]and the judicial law is exemplary of how moral law ought to have governed Israel...which BTW expired with the state of that people.</font><hr></blockquote><p><br><br>Except the general equity of the judicial law which is still required today for all nations. (WCF XIX:4)<br><br>OTOH The "judicial law of man" has legalised abortion and legalised sodomite marriages. Yet no one argues for the "expiration" of those judicial laws since they have nothing to replace them with from the Bible. <br><br>Judicial law is an inescapable concept. Every nation has them, since all laws have to be enforced. To say that no nation today is bound to the precepts of God's judicial laws is to simply concede an obligation to a set of judicial laws other than God's. The rise of secularism in our day only corresponds to the retreat of the Church's commitment to Biblical law for all men and nations. <br><br>Historically, Calvinists have been at forefront of promoting God's law for personal and national blessings according to Deut 28. But modern Calvinist's contempt for the judicial laws of the Bible only rivals the contempt that modern Dispensationalists have for the Decalogue itself. In this, modern Calvinism and Dispensationalism are the secular humanist's best friends, since all three groups are strong opponents of God's judicial laws for today. The advance of homosexual "rights" in North America is simply one expression of the ongoing war against God's Moral and Judicial laws. Modern Calvinism is judicially impotent and has been for over a century while it continues to live off the dwindling moral capital of puritan Christianity which founded North America with God's moral and judicial laws in response to His Sovereign redeeming grace.<br><br>Colin
