Biblical Law and Government

Lesson Eight - Page 2

DEUTERONOMY 11 22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the lord your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him; 23 Then will the lord drive out all these nations from before you. and ye shall pos sess greater nations and mightier than your selves. 24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Eu-phra'tes. even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be. 25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the lord your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon. as he hath said unto you.

Deuteronomy Chapter Eleven (Read before continuing.)

(6) In early American history you may recall that, one of the first things Christian explorers did when they set foot upon a new land was to claim that land in the name of their God and King. What verse of Deuteronomy might these Israelites have used as justification for this action? Deuteronomy 11: ______

(7) When it comes to warfare conducted according to God’s Law, by soldiers who keep God’s Law, we have God’s promise that; _______________________________________________________________ (Deuteronomy 11:25) Deuteronomy Chapter Twelve (Read before continuing.) (8) We hear much about “freedom of religion.” In a Christian nation, does our God grant freedom of religion to the religions of other gods? ( ) Yes. ( ) No. In the U.S. Supreme Court case entitled Holy Trinity vs. United States we find these interesting words, “yet we find that in Updegraph v. the Commonwealth, 11S. & R. 394, 400, it was declared that, “Christianity, general Christianity, is, and always has been, a part of the common law of Pennsylvania;... not Christianity with an established church, and tithes, and spiritual courts; but Christianity with a liberty of conscience to all men.” And in The People vs. Ruggles, 8 Johns. 290, 294, Chancellor Kent, the great commentator on American law, speaking as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, said;

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