The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Old Testament Laws under New Testament grace?

Two references to one obscure Puritan and another well-known, Cromwell, certainly doesn't make your case. Cromwell is well-known also for his extremism in certain practices.<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]One might well ask, why do most modern "biblical Christians" find "most abhorrent" the very idea of applying God's law today? Was it also "abhorrent" in the days of the Old Covenant too? And if those laws were "just" under the OT (Heb 2:2) , how then are they now "unjust" today?</font><hr></blockquote><p>Again, the typical Recontructionist "strawman" charge against biblical Christians who object NOT to God's moral law nor to God's law given to Israel, but rather the objection is and always has been against Reconstructionism's attempt to ignore the uniqueness of the nation of Israel as a Theonomic nation and to impose the Israelic civil law upon the world. The WCF states this clear enough to which you consistently dismiss.<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]And how do you view Chapter XXIII:3 regarding the duty of the civil magistrate to "suppress all heresies and blasphemies"?</font><hr></blockquote><p>Erroneous! [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/grin.gif" alt="grin" title="grin[/img]<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]Also, keep in mind that there are some puritan views that Theonomists do not accept such as Wage and Price controls and compulsory State education and a state established church, primarily because we do not see any biblical justification for them.</font><hr></blockquote><p>Funny, this is the exact same reason the vast majority of Calvinists, who btw, are NOT worse than Dispensationalists as you have many times charged, reject Theonomy/Reconstructionism.<br><br>What I have been able to conclude from all of the rhetoric which you have posted on this Board is that:<ol>[*]There is no one outside of the Postmil/Theonomy/Reconstructionist camp who has any viable information about this group.</li>[*]Any criticism or critiques which have ever been written against this group is misinformed and/or is fraught with ignorant errors.</li>[*]Everyone who does not embrace this theology is in serious error.</li>[*]Everyone who holds to Amillennialism has departed from the original truth of Postmillennialism, which is said to take historical precedence.</li>[*]No one has successfully read or even read at all, books and/or articles written by those who espouse this view.</li>[/LIST]Lastly, I would offer another article by one of us poor ignorant and unread "backslidden" Calvinists who find Reconstructionism in error.<br><br>The Westminster Confession of Faith: A Theonomic Document?<br><br>BTW, have you done the moral thing and contacted The Banner of Truth Trust and expressed to them that you believe and have publicly stated that they "have systematically suppressed this historical aspect of the Puritans in order so that potential readers like yourself would not be scared off from the so called "extremism" of the Puritan's view of civil law."? [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/thinks.gif" alt="thinks" title="thinks[/img]<br><br>In His Grace,<br>