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The Institutes of Biblical Law, Volume Three: The Intent of the Law is unavailable, but you can change that!

God‘s law is much more than legal code. It is covenantal law. It establishes a personal relationship between God and man. The first section of this volume summarizes case laws. The author tenderly illustrates how the law is for our good, and makes clear the difference between the sacrificial laws and those that apply today. The second section vividly shows the practical implications of the law....

The state’s logical direction, when non-Christian, is to become increasingly coercive. This does not mean that the church does not resort to the same strategy at times. Dostoyevsky’s Grand Inquisitor is an excellent depiction of this. The goal is to compel men to be good and to give them no other choice. The choice then, as Dostoyevsky saw, is slavery, not freedom. The more the state separates itself from Christianity the more it resorts to coercion, and its gospel of a true world order is one of
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