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    Being that there is so much discontent in our country today, it is hard for me to see the very fabric of our judicial system being under attack. If you are reading this and you are not a Christian, I am sure you may have another opinions and ideas on this subject, which you have every right to do so. But the following are some of my ideas on the subject.

    There are those who think governments should not try to enforce morality, especially Christian morality, because you cannot legislate morality or because you should not mix religion with politics. However, morality is the basis for most, if not all laws. God established three fundamental institutions for the governance of men: family, Church and civil government. All three are mutually supportive and interconnected established by God. Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. All the judicial officers that run our judicial systems today should be in awe and fear of God’s judicial guidelines and justice.

    The notion of trying to make criminals and sinners comfortable while in the presence of God is a foreign concept to biblical teaching. The curse of the law should bring guilt, and nobody should try to make the guilty feel comfortable. One of the purposes of the Christ coming to earth was to offer salvation to the sinner [John 16:8]. What most people don’t understand is that a man is either under grace or under the Law. He is either sinless or sinful. That is why the Law will never be abolished because it will still be in effect for those who forsake the grace of God at judgment.

    The basic meaning of “moral” is relating to, or capable of making the distinction between right and wrong. Moral law makes the distinction between right actions and wrong actions. The Ten Commandments do just that. The Moral Law or the Ten Commandments is God’s Law. The objective moral standards with “values” instead of “laws” that we see today has no morality. If we make the rules, we can change the rules. A “nonbinding morality” is not morality, only “good ideas.” Today, God’s Moral Law has been discarded as “absolute standards” of law. You can’t avoid the reality of God’s absolute moral laws. Our present-day culture keeps trying to make the “good idea” or “nonbinding” morality work, but the experiment is failing.

    Today some justice systems vividly oppose Christians who strive to influence cultural morality. Also, individuals who search the scripture for moral clarity, an action once thought by judges to be a noble endeavor, are now being attacked for aspiring to such clarity in courtrooms. “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter” (Isaiah 5:20). There are several aspects of the United States criminal court system that owe themselves to Christian theology. The position that a person cannot be punished until he is sentenced, instead of a lynch mob acting upon an accusation, for example, finds its heritage directly from what the bible teaches on criminal justice (i.e. Deuteronomy 17:4-11; 10:16-19 and Ecclesiastes 8:11). There are many aspects of the U.S. court system that are contrary to God’s Word, and unfortunately, Christian ministers are either uneducated or unwilling to address criminal justice issues addressed in the Bible. The secularists have successfully marginalized the Church. The Church needs to emancipate herself completely from government control for reasons such as tax breaks for contributions. What the government taxes, it controls and this case what it doesn’t tax buys a fictional wall between church and state.

    In general, politicians either completely ignore or scoff at what God has said in relation to criminal law. Out of control crime is a signal that civil government has failed a primary purpose for its existence. Justice is to be doled out by civil authorities for the preservation of the community. God promised that if civil government does what it supposed to do, criminal activity will be kept to a minimum (Deuteronomy 19:20). Sharp increases in crime happens whenever civil authorities resists criminal justice practices endorsed by biblical jurisprudence. A godless dysfunctional government produces fertile ground for crime to grow.
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    The Law

    Being that there is so much discontent in our country today, it is hard for me to see the very fabric of our judicial system being under attack. If you are reading this and you are not a Christian, I am sure you may have another opinions and ideas on this subject, which you have every right to do so. But the following are some of my ideas on the subject.

    There are those who think governments should not try to enforce morality, especially Christian morality, because you cannot legislate morality or because you should not mix religion with politics. However, morality is the basis for most, if not all laws. God established three fundamental institutions for the governance of men: family, Church and civil government. All three are mutually supportive and interconnected established by God. Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. All the judicial officers that run our judicial systems today should be in awe and fear of God’s judicial guidelines and justice.

    The notion of trying to make criminals and sinners comfortable while in the presence of God is a foreign concept to biblical teaching. The curse of the law should bring guilt, and nobody should try to make the guilty feel comfortable. One of the purposes of the Christ coming to earth was to offer salvation to the sinner [John 16:8]. What most people don’t understand is that a man is either under grace or under the Law. He is either sinless or sinful. That is why the Law will never be abolished because it will still be in effect for those who forsake the grace of God at judgment.

    The basic meaning of “moral” is relating to, or capable of making the distinction between right and wrong. Moral law makes the distinction between right actions and wrong actions. The Ten Commandments do just that. The Moral Law or the Ten Commandments is God’s Law. The objective moral standards with “values” instead of “laws” that we see today has no morality. If we make the rules, we can change the rules. A “nonbinding morality” is not morality, only “good ideas.” Today, God’s Moral Law has been discarded as “absolute standards” of law. You can’t avoid the reality of God’s absolute moral laws. Our present-day culture keeps trying to make the “good idea” or “nonbinding” morality work, but the experiment is failing.

    Today some justice systems vividly oppose Christians who strive to influence cultural morality. Also, individuals who search the scripture for moral clarity, an action once thought by judges to be a noble endeavor, are now being attacked for aspiring to such clarity in courtrooms. “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter” (Isaiah 5:20). There are several aspects of the United States criminal court system that owe themselves to Christian theology. The position that a person cannot be punished until he is sentenced, instead of a lynch mob acting upon an accusation, for example, finds its heritage directly from what the bible teaches on criminal justice (i.e. Deuteronomy 17:4-11; 10:16-19 and Ecclesiastes 8:11). There are many aspects of the U.S. court system that are contrary to God’s Word, and unfortunately, Christian ministers are either uneducated or unwilling to address criminal justice issues addressed in the Bible. The secularists have successfully marginalized the Church. The Church needs to emancipate herself completely from government control for reasons such as tax breaks for contributions. What the government taxes, it controls and this case what it doesn’t tax buys a fictional wall between church and state.

    In general, politicians either completely ignore or scoff at what God has said in relation to criminal law. Out of control crime is a signal that civil government has failed a primary purpose for its existence. Justice is to be doled out by civil authorities for the preservation of the community. God promised that if civil government does what it supposed to do, criminal activity will be kept to a minimum (Deuteronomy 19:20). Sharp increases in crime happens whenever civil authorities resists criminal justice practices endorsed by biblical jurisprudence. A godless dysfunctional government produces fertile ground for crime to grow.
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