03-07-2008, 08:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Slippery the regulative principle of gov't.
Don't want to sidetrack this thread, but what about infrastructure? Should the govt spend money on roads, canals, highways etc? | I would argue that there is Biblical warrant for the state spending money on roads, as there needed to be roads between the cities of refuge in Israel and so people could get to towns were justice was administered. | Very good, Daniel. In all my reading of theonomic literature--and it is quite vast--I have never heard that one before. | I think Gary DeMar argues for it in God and Government and Ruler of the Nations.
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