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To attempt to study Scripture without studying its law is to deny it. To attempt to understand Western civilization apart from the impact of biblical law within it and upon it is to seek a fictitious history and to reject twenty centuries and their progress. The Institutes of Biblical Law has as its purpose a reversal of the present trend. It is called “Institutes” in the older meaning of the...

But, we are told by the moralist, if Rahab had told the truth, God would have been bound to honor her integrity and to deliver her and the spies, and Rahab had an obligation to tell the truth irrespective of the consequences. Several fallacies, characteristic of moralism, are involved here: 1. Moral choice, it is held, involves a simple, uncomplicated, rational issue. 2. It is always a choice between absolute right and wrong. 3. The central issue is always the preservation of the individual’s moral
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