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There are 26 Muslims running for office this election. Tulsi Gabbard just gave a speech at the Texas Youth Summit. She spoke of many concerns one of which is the threat of Islam to our country. She served our country in Iraq every day knowing it could be her last day on earth. Anyway- She said the ...

Andrew Wakefield published a scholarly article that proved the Amish have less autism due to their opposition to vaccinations. Wakefield was blacklisted as a doctor and the article retracted, not because it wasn't true, but because there really is a connection between autism and vaccines. Big Pharm...

The OT is primarily centered around a national government led by God known as "Israel". The NT is centered around the beginning of a non-national entity known as "Christ body" or "the Church". Trying to meld these 2 OT and NT entities without recognizing their distinct...

Well, the New Covenant doesn’t lay out what laws a civil government should or shouldn’t have. The King didn't come to take sides, he came to take over. Our King left us with instructions to respect civil governments including that he ordained them to bear the sword as a terror to evildoers. We shou...

If capital punishment is so terrible, why on earth did God put it in the law? If, as stated in Hebrews, the new covenant is much better than the old covenant, why would anybody want to go back and implement the old covenant? Well, the New Covenant doesn’t lay out what laws a civil government should...

The best argument against capital punishment today (in my view) is prudential: the real possibility of executing someone who is innocent, and inequality in sentencing - that is, the disproportionate application of the death penalty to those who are ethnic minorities and/or poor. I would say that if...

Back to the OP, how about those in favor of capital punishment, and its righteousness, be the ones to literally pull the trigger or watch the, presumably live streamed, execution. My guess is, if that were that the case, there would be considerably less support. It's a little like the theologian who...

Do you submit to a thief for conscience sake? Would you say that resisting a thief is "resisting one who has been ordained by God"? Is a thief "a revenger to execute wrath on the one who does evil"? I would say the above apply to folks like Pharaoh. He stole the labor and childr...

I don't think this squares well with Romans 13 description of our relationship to government. God has designed for there to be civil government, but I don't believe that rebellion and the mafia are part of God's design, even though he does use them to accomplish his purposes. This is one of the key...

As an Anabaptist, I believe God, in his providence, uses civil govt just like he uses rebels/rebellions and the mafia and Philistines and Canaanites and Pharaoh and the Romans. However, none of what they do reflects Jesus or Godliness. Further the Bible says it's not God's will that any should peri...