Democracy creates Human Law
We assume that because our legislators are democratically elected, they have authority to make laws. If we elected them, they are making laws on our behalf. But nothing has changed. Democratically-elected legislators are still making human law.
Human laws will always be inferior to God’s law. We have the odd situation in the modern world where everyone hates God’s law, but loves human law. I can understand why those who hate God would hate his law, but I cannot understand why those who love God are so ambivalent about his law.
When Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This tree represented the ability to decide between good and evil, between justice and injustice without reference to God.
Adam and Eve had a choice; they could obey God, or they could decide for themselves how they would live. We face the same choice today. We can accept for God’s law or we can make up our own. Parliaments and congresses are feasting on the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Most people would sooner live under human laws, than acknowledge God by admitting that his law is better than any human law.
When we vote for a person to be our representative in parliament, we are saying that we want that person to make laws for us we are actively rejecting God’s law and saying that we prefer human law. If all authority must be under God, legislators and politicians who make human laws are not legitimate, even if they are elected.
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Coming from the perspective of American Evangelicalism, it is truly fascinating how Christians can look at the few pages of law in the OT and proclaim how glad they are to live under the NT because of all the tedious regulations Israel had to live under in the sacrificial system. Then in the next breath they can admonish somebody that Romans 13 means that we must obey civil governments, no matter how much we don't like their law, even though we have billions of pages of ever-changing law written in millions of volumes of law books stored in thousands of law libraries all over the country. Talk about schizophrenia.
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