As a man that grows weary of David French trying to flush the Church down the secular immorality toilet, let me just state simply that, as faithful Believers, we should not want the most liberties, or want protected the most liberties, but the most just liberties. A classically liberal society doesn’t protect or represent the most liberties, as French seems to think. Anarchy actually presents the most liberties, but it is the most untenable and unjust system of all, if it can even rightly be called a system, as it is ruled entirely by hedonistic might-makes-right. Anarchy is pure chaos made barely-political, the most extreme sins given form in political individualism, the equal opposite of Knox-opposed tyranny, making the individual the governing tyrant instead of the corrupt body. No, we don’t want unfettered Liberty, as man is wicked by nature. Rather, we want the most just liberties, liberties granted by God and protected by a just, appropriate, and faithful Romans
A pastor in my area, a long-time friend of mine and someone I might’ve once considered theologically conservative, said recently to my wife at a gathering that, “not all Scripture is relevant for today.” This infuriated me for a number of reasons, and so I’m going to spend a few lines examining those reasons. To deny the relevancy of all Scripture, the entirety and breadth of the canon of God’s Word, to say that some may not be culturally relevant (Genesis 6:5-13), is to firstly deny God’s place in culture (Romans 2:15), more importantly to say that culture is denied separately from Christ (Hebrews 1:3), that Christ does not rule as King and define our culture sovereignly (Ephesians 1:20-21, Revelations 1:4-5). As well, it is to deny Christ, or deny Christ’s role as the Word of God (John 1:1-3), complete and perfect, and to deny His teachings which are for all of life (2 Timothy 3:16-17). Thirdly, it is to remove by verbal doctrine or belief some of the Word and to invite a