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I like Bahnsen alot, and I even met him shortly before he passed away. His work in Apologetics is second to none. He had a clear view of the Gospel. He is sitting closer to God than I ever hope to be. Hopefully, I will meet him in heaven.
The "bath water" of his theology is this Theonomy stuff. I would rather toss that out and remember him for all of the good he has done for the Church.
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Actually, it is his commitment to presuppositional apologetics and epistemology which undergirds Bahnsen's Theonomic ethics.
If we cannot have any true knowledge independent of God, then we are dependent upon the word of God to know what is acceptable in terms of criminal justice and penology. Therefore, in order to prove that a penal sanction is just we must go to the Bible - not to Calvin and Turretin (who usually agree with the Bible).