Has anyone study the view of natural law ?

Any thoughts ?

Are those whom hold to the natural law hold to a theocracy or not ?
Are those whom hold to natural law more towards a liberal view ?

I read somewhere that Hugo Grotius was holding to Natural law, but iam not sure what his view was on politics and theocracy ?

Any information ?

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* Ralph Wilms (7-10-1974)
* Church : Christengemeente Roermond (The Netherlands)
* 1729 Goat Yard Declaration of Faith & 1646 Baptist Confession of faith

"To our mind, either everything or nothing must be held in subjection to the will and providence of God. Even the wickedness of ungodly men is restricted by predestination, so that the wrath of man shall praise God, and the remainder of wrath He will restrain." - GILBERT BEEBE (1800-1881)

The question may be slightly too broad; but, in general, the orthodox have held that the "natural law" is the same as that law summarized in the Decalogue. It is God's natural, moral law, and also was written on the heart of man at creation.

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Paul Korte
OPC
Flint, MI

They who perceive in themselves discoveries of the divine goodness, so full and absolutely perfect, and who make them the subject of earnest meditation, will never embrace new doctrines, by which the very grace they feel so powerfully in themselves is thrown into the shade. --John Calvin

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I haven't had a chance to go through all this material myself yet, but this set of links looks useful:

Resources for Reformed Approaches to Natural Law Heidelblog

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Evie B.
New Members Class, RPCNA, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. -- Isaiah 43:18-19 (ESV)

Note the distinctions that developed over time. For Aquinas and the medievals, natural law participated in the divine. For Grotius, God may not exist but natural law does.

Natural law got secularized in the Enlightenment. (and I hold to it so don't get too excited).

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J. B. Atken
John Knox PCA
Layman, M.A. student at Louisiana College

I thought that natural law is the set of moral values from God that is known apart from special revelation. It is supposed to be identical with the moral values as stated in Scripture. Is this correct?

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Curt Hayashida
member, Community Bible Church (Non-denominational)
Vallejo, CA