And so he makes the case, he's critiquing theonomy, but it's a theocratic, which I'm like, I can get

And so he makes the case, he's critiquing theonomy, but it's a theocratic, which I'm like, I can get

One of our big concerns with theonomy is that it confuses the mission of the church. It confuses the mission of the kingdom of Christ on earth effectively. What we understand from theonomy is that an integral part of the mission of the church is the transformation of civil society and the establishment of the Mosaic code as the law of the land.

Theonomy, a Reformed Baptist Assessment. And I found it very helpful.

And in particular, theonomy as a technical term being used to describe a system of theological belief, a hermeneutical approach to the interpretation and application of the Bible. Theonomy is getting at the usefulness, the utility of particularly the law of God for all of life, so that when we read passages in the Old Testament, for example, that many people, hey, I just don't know what to do with this.

How, if at all, does theonomy obscure the gospel?

And Refuting an Embarrassing Critique of God's Law, of theonomy, that's what this was.

Theonomy was a ground zero kind of issue when I came to RTS Jackson and so I had to develop a lecture for it in my ethics course and that eventually became a book which I finished in 1995 or 1996 but by that time theonomy was already in retreat in Circles.

General equity is not theonomy. Theonomy is the establishment of the judicial laws of the Old Testament.

There's discussion about theonomy. Theocracy all these different things.

The question is a, is theonomy biblical? Yes. But what does that theonomy look like? Yeah,.

Theonomy is a view in Christian ethics. It's concerns God's law and it's abiding relevance the Decalogue the summarized there for us in the in the Ten Commandments and then The applications of the Decalogue which we find in what we can call case law in the Bible that the Apostle Paul for example applies multiple times a couple of prominent examples would be his teaching to children about Obeying their parents because this is the first commandment with a promise that you may live long in the earth he says so he adapts that from live long in the land to live long in the earth and Where he also applies the the case law of not muzzling an ox while it treads out the grain and he applies that law to Making sure those who labor in the Word of God in the church are properly paid.

Yeah, there's, there's different cases for theonomy.

Okay, no critique against theonomy has held up. That's what Greg Vonson says in his book.

Well, of course the word theonomy just means God's law, uh, contrasted with autonomy, self -law. And so we would say the, the theonomist would say that, uh, there is a fundamental choice and, and I would say that the reformation or the reform tradition right through the Puritans and to many of the early evangelicals would have argued that there is a choice between, uh, theonomy and autonomy between our submission to the law word of God in its totality and being a law unto ourselves.

And so Reconstructionist theonomy involves the establishment of Christendom in a Christian society, whereas general equity theonomy is going to argue for looking to the judicial law, finding the principles that it contains, and then seeking to apply that in geopolitical reality today, in geopolitical entities today.

Let me ask my theonomist friends. How often are you talking about theonomy these days. Are you involved in a local church? Are you teaching the whole council of god? Or has the whole council of god become theonomy.

Yeah, so the reason I wrote this book is I felt the theonomists were lacking in some of their argumentation regarding the form of government. I think there are many theonomists out there who make the mistake of saying things like, yeah, we need to get theonomy so that we can put it into our constitution.

And it's not going to map out to a non -theocratic context, which seems to be part of the issue with

Theonomic. Yes, theonomic society, right? Does that mean that society, even though government, even though it's not Christian in nature, would enforce God's law? How is that carried out?