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Biblical Law II
Lesson Eleven

Welcome to Biblical Law II lesson eleven. Congratulations on completing Biblical Law II. You have accomplished what many others have not. I am sure there have been times when you were discouraged and wanted to quit, but you didn't. I trust your life and the world under your sphere of influence have been enriched by this course.

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Video Answers For Lesson Eleven

For Lesson Eleven, read Institutes of Biblical Law, Vol. 1, pages 837 - 849. Ebooks may have different page numbers. The sections in this lesson are Appendices: In Defense of Biblical Bribery, Subversion and the Tithe, and Notes.

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Questions For Lesson Eleven

Answer these questions as you are reading pages 837 - 849. You may download the questions in a PDF file or simply write the answers in a notebook.

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In Defence Of Biblical Bribery

1. The primary assumption of humanism is that man - his goals, needs, desires, standards is the ________________ focus of life.

2. Moralism is grounded on the doctrine that man is capable of demonstrating his own ________________ before God by acts of charity and self-denial.

3. Legalism views God as being ________________ by the same laws that bind mankind.

4. Legalism is a blood relative of ________________.

5. Against humanism, Christianity asserts the ________________ of God.

6. Against moralism, Christianity says that there is ________________ in man that can ever merit favour in God’s eyes.

7. Christianity rejects legalism because ________________ is under God, not over Him.

8. Orthodox Christianity declares that God is totally sovereign over His ________________; He may do with it as He pleases, bestowing wrath or grace as He sees fit.

9. Where ________________ flourishes, Christians grow ethically overcautious and culturally impotent.

10. But the Bible nowhere condemns the ________________ of bribes in order to impede the progress of apostate governments.

11. Resistance to unjust laws is not ________________; resistance to just laws is anarchy.

12. Christianity denies it, for Christianity denies its premise: there can be no universal, ________________ principles of law, language, or culture.

13. Men are wicked if they take bribes to ________________ justice.

14. God’s law is our ________________ standard.

15. Taking a bribe is synonymous with preventing judgment in the Scriptures; it is prohibited in the affairs of ________________ justice.

16. What Jesus was giving to His disciples [in the Sermon On The Mount] was a series or recommendations for the ethical conduct of a ________________ people.

17. The ethic of the Sermon on the Mount is grounded on the principle that a godly ________________ is sometimes the best way for Christians to buy temporary peace and freedom for themselves and the church, assuming the enemies of God have overwhelming temporal power.

18. It is only in a period of civil ________________ that Christians are under the rule to “resist not evil.”

Subversion And The Tithe

19. As long as the tithe flows freely to reforming agencies, ____________ is constant.

20. Without the tithe, the need for social financing remains, and thus the state ________________ takes over, as weak as statist corruption and misappropriation.

21. ________________ financing is necessary: either the people of God undertake it, to the state will.

Notes

22. Puritan view of the law held that the norm of ________________ is the law of God.

Conclusion

Thank you for completing this course. I trust it has enriched your life. Studying and applying the Word of God, including Biblical Law, is a lifetime project. In the future, we may add more courses dealing with the application of Biblical Law; for now, why don’t you look at the other courses we offer? If you have not taken the Love Covenant course, I highly recommend you do, as it is foundational to understanding the Bible in context.

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