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Biblical Government begins with the Sovereignty of God. The higher (and more realistic and biblicallly conformable) this conception, the more sure the foundation.
And I would say that the next step is... Self Government. Without this step, man begins an inevitable slide into top-down tyranny. Where self-government rises, tyranny is on its way out (like it or not, and it never does).
Family government. Gen. 2:24; Ex. 20:12. Natural hierarchy. The seed of corporate government.
Church government. Gen. 4:26. See Calvin on this text.
Civil government. Communal relations. Rules of its order. The worse off people are exercising self-government, the more freedom will be sacrificed to this agency (in the name of protecting what's left). Gen. 10:9-10.
__________________ Rev. Bruce G. Buchanan
ChainOLakes Presbyterian Church, CentralLake, MI Made both Lord and Christ--Jesus, the Destroyer
Acts 2:36 - 1 Cor. 10:9-10 & 15:22-26 - Hebrews 2:9-15 - 1 John 3:8 - James 4:12
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