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18 For through him we both have access (freedom or right to enter) by one Spirit unto the Father.

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19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers (xenos or foreigner or alien) and foreigners (one who lives in a place without citizenship), but fellow citizens (sumpolitai: from polis) with the saints, and of the household

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(domestic, blood kindred) of God; [Eph. 2:2-19, Bible, KJV (amplified)]

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Translations of the words and phrases found above into contemporary legal language: 6

Table 2: Biblical v. Legal use of terms within the Bible relating to domicile 7

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Bible term

Legal meaning within secular law

“Christ Jesus”

Our political ruler. In secular terms, civil rulers are “kings” under the civil law. Those with a foreign domicile regardless of the geographical place of birth.

“aliens”

“commonwealth”

political entity or state.

“covenants of promise”

Social Compact. The Social Compact is implemented by the civil statutory law. Criminal law does not require consent to lawfully enforce, so it technically is not a covenant or agreement. Not consenting members of the body politic or the “social compact”. Not protected by the civil statutory law. fearful because outside the protection and benefit of your king or ruler. Legal boundary between what is just and unjust. The Declaration of Independence says that all just powers of government derive from the CONSENT of the governed. It would be unjust and an act of terrorism to interfere with or even protect the property or rights of those who didn’t consent to RECEIVE the protection. The jealous insistence of self-government and self- ownership and one’s PRIVATE rather than PUBLIC status. Also, the status of being a criminal under God’s law who has not yet been arrested or incarcerated. Under God’s laws, we are all criminals and deserve death, eternal separation from God, prison, and isolation. That’s the story of the Garden of Eden . Adam and Eve had to be kicked out of the Garden after they sinned. Christ abolished the enmity and separation between God and us by becoming a living sacrifice and paying the penalty for our sin demanded by God’s commandments. Hence, we can safely leave the slavery and isolation of our sin and return to fellowship with God. Prisons do the same thing. Criminals must be separated from society by being put in jail. They must fulfill their sentence before they can return to society and fellowship as an equal member once again. Without a government civil protector.

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“strangers from the covenants”

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“having no hope” “without God”

“middle wall of partition”

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“the enmity (hostility)”

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“abolished in his flesh . . .even the law (nomos) of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man (anthropos), so making peace;”

Before we become Christians, we are legally separated from God and outside of the protection and “benefit” (blessing) of 8 His laws: 9

1. God’s criminal laws “protect” us. His criminal laws protect us even if we don’t consent to the protection. They attach 10 to the LAND we stand on and therefore are called the “law of the land”. Sin has the effect of “uprooting us” from the 11 “protections” of this “law of the land”: 12

“ For the upright will dwell in the land, And the blameless will remain in it; But the wicked will be cut off from the earth, And the unfaithful will be uprooted from it. ”

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[Prov. 2:21-22, Bible, NKJV]

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2. God’s civil statutory laws “benefit” or “bless” us. We must consent to become the proper subject of His CIVIL laws, 18 and hence, we must be a party to a COVENANT to receive their “benefits”. Anything that conveys “benefits” or 19 “blessings” is a franchise in legal terminology. Legal evidence of the existence of our covenant with God is the act of 20 baptism. Beyond baptism, our acts of obedience and professed faith also constitutes such legal evidence. James 2. 21

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