[This is all the articles in the series on “God and justice” by Obadiah D. Morris in one place]
In the first article, I begin to explain how everything that most men believe necessitates a State (law, justice, order, economic stability, freedom, etc) actually becomes perverted under its rule.
In this article, I explain how all the unsurprising evils that come upon a people who trust in human rulers to protect them is just what they get for this sin. The injustice of statism is ultimately divine judgment for a people who refuse to be ruled by God.
This article is sort of foundational to the series and seeks to make the case that what God often says He cares about more than anything is justice, righteousness, liberty, and a people who are not living in bondage to men.
This one explains how the longer the corruption of law and justice goes on in a society, which is always the case anytime a people hand their responsibilities over to human government, that the more difficult it becomes for anyone to remember the old ways as prescribed by God. They forget about God’s anarchist law society altogether and can’t see their way out of the alleged necessity of human civil government that becomes all that they know.
This one teaches that it is sin that leads to bondage. That men ultimately end up as the captives to other men because they fail to obey God’s commandments against having other gods and supporting the theft and murder which all States subsist on.
If you know the scriptures, you would know that we live in a cause and effect universe where God providentially blesses and curses those who follow His ways or abandon them, and that the statist path, where men seek the false kingdoms of men rather than the Kingdom of God, brings a divine curse upon a society of people who choose to go this route.
Contrary to the beliefs of most men today who believe that “going to church” and partaking in the rituals that take place under these roofs is what God really cares about, we again emphasize that what God cares about is actually men seeking a just society, which in scripture is explicitly contrasted to the rituals that men have come to believe are what satisfies the Lord.
This article is something of a lamentation for what we have turned God’s earth into. Whereas God created men to be free and productive, we have depressingly handed over our bodies and property over to state rulers to abuse and plunder. We have given up our God-given inheritance to strangers who call themselves “the government” to spoil.
Just as we emphasized that the inevitable injustices of statism work as divine judgment against a people who refused to be ruled by God, we must also point out that this divine instrument of justice—the State apparatuses God uses against people—is not exempt from judgment itself. Even though States are used by God to bring terror upon a society of political idolaters, they are also evil themselves and will eventually be destroyed for their own sins which God used to correct and chastise a people who fallaciously begged to be ruled by men.
Finally, there would be no use in complaining about the circumstances of political slavery that we have found ourselves in if we didn’t end with a call for repentance from these systems and prayer for restoration. We are in bondage because of our sins, and the way to turn back the bondage is to repent and pray to God to lift the curse of statism from our society as we begin to seek His Kingdom.
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