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Originally Posted by R Harris  Here is my simple definition:
Natural Law: plagiarisim of biblical truth in an attempt to remove God from the public square. This is the "suppression" spoken of in Romans 1. | Be very careful here to avoid equivocation. Others may not defne "natural law" as you do. For Calvin "natural law" was "the law of God which we call moral, is nothing else than the testimony of natural law, and of that conscience which God has engraven on the minds of men, the whole of this equity of which we now speak is prescribed in it." ( Institutes 4 xx 16). Quote:
Originally Posted by R Harris I grow very tired of people like Chuck Colson and Bill Bennett falling all over themselves trying to appease the wicked through natural law argumentation. They really believe that natural man is not at enmity with God (Romans 8) and can figure things out through "rational reasoning" and come to a knowledge of the truth. Pure arminian hogwash! | Now I'm no arminian and I have no desire to appease the wicked through natural law argumentation (and I don't think Colson and Bennett do either whatever their views in the Calvinist/Arminian debate may be). But, (following C. S. Lewis and Greg Bahnsen) I can demonstrate to an unbeliever, whom I know is at enmity with God that on his premises there is no real justification for any ethics whatsoever, without some ethical postulates being presupposed. I may not be able to argue an unbeliever into faith, but presuppositional apologetics will at the least shut the mouths of the unbeliever or it may even let him see the extent of the philosophic problem he faces. If you read Lewis' "Surprised by Joy" you will discover that Lewis' discovery of this problem was one of the goads God used to lead him in the direction of Christ.
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In Christ's love and service
Mr. Tim Cunningham, Dip. CS (Regent College)
Member, First Baptist Church
Vancouver, BC
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"The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar of 1500-year-old, 200 proof grace—a bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one sip of which would convince anyone that God saves us single-handedly. The word of the gospel—after all these centuries of trying to lift yourself into heaven by worrying about the perfection of your own bootstraps—suddenly turned out to be a flat announcement that the saved were home-free before they started. Grace was to be drunk neat: no water, no ice, and certainly no ginger ale." – Robert Farrar Capon
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