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Quote: Originally posted by Contra_Mundum
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.
|  I would also point out, by way of contrast, Judges 21.25: In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
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