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God’s Law is Christianity’s tool of dominion. This is where any discussion of God’s law ultimately arrives: the issue of dominion. Ask yourself: Who is to rule on earth, Christ or Satan? Whose followers have the ethically acceptable tool of dominion, Christ’s or Satan’s? What is this tool of dominion, the biblically revealed law of God, or the law of self-proclaimed autonomous man? Whose word is...

By David Bahnsen The publication of Theonomy in Christian Ethics in 1977 did not end the discussion about the role God’s law ought to play in modern society. In fact, it primarily served the role of opening up the conversation. In fact, by 1985, when By This Standard: The Authority of God’s Law Today was first published, the controversy and toxicity related to the subject of Theonomy had intensified—not decreased. The goal of By This Standard was to provide laymen readers a synopsis of the
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