It shouldn't matter whether the magistrate is godly or not. The moral obligation is universal, whether you are pagan or Christian. My question is, what is that moral obligation on the part of the magistrate (i.e gov'ment)? It's impossible for the church to care for all the poor, unless you had a majority Christian nation with a sizable upper and middle class. Perhaps a situation like this is foreign to us Westerners, but to the rest of the world, this is a real concern. That's why socialism is so popular in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Just trying to work through this. Where's the theonomists? I thought they would have jumped on this.
