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Originally Posted by armourbearer "Natural law exists ontologically but is epistemologically inaccessible for fallen men." If "inaccessible" means "unable to be reached," | Okay, I see part of the confusion. I am not defining inaccessible in the same way you are. I don't doubt (never did; seems like I keep saying that in this thread) that Christ-haters have an idea of the good, often perverted, and sometimes do right things. Following Van Til, but not slavishly so, I am saying that they suppress such knowledge (Romans 1). Sure, they have it. They just won't be consistent on it.
Lacking such a consistency, I have my doubts for a workable social ethic. | Isn't mankind already building social ethics with it? Rebellious societies cannot explain or justify the good laws they have from their unbelieving systems. They are building on what God created them with, though corrupted by the fall. 
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"He does well, that discourses of Christ; but he does infinitely better, that by experimental knowledge, feeds and lives on Christ." Thomas Brooks.
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