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Originally Posted by Ivanhoe  Quote:
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?[quote]
Yes, and aside from a few blips, they aren't that good.
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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.  |
Agreed.