What happens when you begin to parse, from a biblical Christian context, the bumper-sticker thinking that pleads, “Support our troops”? Troops John the Baptist tells soldiers to do no violence to anyone. But that is what troops do. Their very job is to enforce by physical means the will of some person or group of [...]
Having recently completed the series on the Ten Commandments here at C&S, I wanted to address the issue of law. Some Christian anarchists reject the idea of law. They are antinomian. In contrast, we wholeheartedly accept the idea of God’s law. Why? To observe a law is to recognize an authority over oneself; something exactly [...]
And the tenth commandment is presented as follows: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s (Exodus 20:17). Coveting—desiring that which belongs to someone else—is unhealthy. Instead of being engaged [...]
The ninth commandment states Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour (Exodus 20:16). In the “errata” for the Ten Commandments, this is expanded upon: You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. You shall not fall in with the many [...]
