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Biblical Law II
Lesson Four
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For Lesson Four, read Institutes of Biblical Law, Vol. 1, pages 569 - 611. Any questions not answered when you watch the video must be marked wrong.
Questions For Lesson Four
Answer these questions as you are reading pages 569 - 611. You may download the questions in a PDF file or simply write the answers in a notebook.
Download PDF Lesson Four Questions.
Perjury
1. The law equates perjury with ____________________, since it is God’s justice which is offended.
2. The courts are inescapably ____________________ establishments.
3. The presupposition of Biblical law is ____________________ responsibility and guilt.
4. ____________________ does not exist in the abstract.
5. The penalty of the case falls on the ____________________.
6. The law forbids ____________________ toward a perjurer, and, in general, toward malefactors.
7. Evil is serious, vicious, and deadly, because ____________________ are so.
Jesus Christ As The Witness
8. In Biblical law, the witness not only must give true and accurate testimony but must participate in the ____________________ of the offender if it is a capital offense.
9. “____________________” now has come to mean the exact reverse, i.e., one who is executed rather than an executioner, one who is persecuted rather than one who is ____________________ to persecution.
10. The significance of Jesus Christ as “the faithful and true witness” is that He not only witnesses against those who are at war against God, but He also ____________________ them.
11. Jesus Christ as the witness is therefore the Lord and Judge over ____________________.
12. The ninth commandment, therefore, has ____________________ significance.
False Witness
13. A godly man must move in terms of God’s ____________________, not the mob or “multitude.”
14. A godly man cannot be governed by ____________________ considerations.
15. The dream of absolute ____________________ speech is a myth and a delusion.
16. Speech must be ____________________ to be free.
17. In ancient pagan belief, the word had ____________________ power.
18. The result is a very great humanistic faith in the power of ____________________.
19. The Biblical position is that man, created in the image of God, speaks, not a creative word, but an ____________________ word.
20. The analogical word means the ____________________ word.
21. When truth and truth-telling are both divorced from God and His absolute law-word, they both ____________________.
False Freedom
22. The law requires, first, the prosecution of a ____________________ witness, and, second, the prosecution of LIARS and slanderers.
23. But a society which makes freedom its primary goal will ____________________ it, because it has made, not responsibility, but freedom from responsibility, its purpose.
24. The goal must be God’s ____________________, in which alone is true liberty.
25. Because of the emphasis on free speech and free press, the United States and other countries have seen the rapid triumph of ______________ advertising and merchandising. pg. 582
26. Whenever freedom is made into an ____________________, the result is not freedom but anarchism.
27. Much of reality escapes ____________________.
The Lying Tongue
28. ____________________ is false witness concerning a man by word of mouth.
29. ____________________ is false witness by means of writing, pictures, or signs.
30. Warfare requires strategic deception, but no false witness concerning the ____________________ of the enemy is justifiable.
31. The evils were all too real: even greater is the evil of bearing false witness concerning them, because that false witness will produce an even more ____________________ reality in the next upheaval.
32. Where men are evading their ____________________, they are liars.
33. A false witness is ____________________, in that it sets loose a vast chain of consequences which cannot be recalled.
Slander Within Marriage
34. In every trial under this law, a ____________________ inevitably follows.
35. 100 shekels of silver was an extremely heavy find and one which would virtually ____________________ most husbands and make them in effect their wife’s servant or slave thereafter.
36. Until recently, ____________________ consent did not terminate a marriage but rather actual and proven guilt.
37. Biblical law requires a high degree of care and thoughtfulness of ____________________ between husband and wife.
38. Any man or woman who belittles his or her spouse only ____________________ himself in the long run.
39. The matter of slander within the ____________________ is a criminal and public offence, not merely a private matter.
40. This law in particular fines and punishes the ____________________.
41. If he defames them, defames his wife in particular, it is an indication of both an ____________________ to protect and to govern, and a sick mentality which invites shame and disgrace.
42. A husband can defame his wife not only by speech but by ____________________.
43. ____________________ itself can be slanderous, if it is used to give a partial or distorted picture.
44. Our most important ____________________ is our wife or husband.
45. The fine for slandering a wife by false accusation of premarital unchaste was thus ____________________ the fine for rape and/or seduction.
Slander
46. The circulation of ____________________ anywhere is prohibited.
47. Slander ____________________ three persons with one act, the person who slanders, the person who is slandered, and the person who listens to the slander.
48. The law of God ____________________ sees gossip as an idle matter.
49. Slander is a form of ____________________: it seeks to destroy the reputation and the integrity of a man by insinuating falsehoods.
50. Because the ____________________ took Biblical law seriously, they did punish the gossip by court action.
51. If a “brother” or “neighbour” is actually ____________________ of wrong-doing, we must go to him and seek to dissuade him from his evil course.
52. Whenever man, institutions, and societies forsake God, they forsake ____________________.
53. The ____________________ which believes it can live in the world and neglect the problems of the world is living in a realm of _________________.
54. When ____________________ witness ceases, then man has neither the ability to face reality nor the ability to be free.
Slander As Theft
55. Theft is a form of ____________________ when the thief purports to own the goods, sells them as his own, and lives off the proceeds as though they represented his own wealth.
56. The neighbour is one whom we are thus to ____________________ even as he has a duty to ____________________ us.
57. True witness is by no means to be confused with _________________, or with concealing evil.
58. Since moral order rests on theological order, man cannot long maintain a neighbourly relationship to his fellow man if his relationship to God is ____________________.
“Every Idle Word”
59. The word ____________________ is also rendered “useless,” “careless,” and “imperative, non-working word.”
60. The appointed agencies of law must deal with the EVIL word; God in His time judges every ____________________ word.
61. The usual counsel to say nothing unpleasant about anyone is a call to ____________________ witness.
62. Man being the god of humanism, sinful men especially delight in ____________________ this new god, in hearing filthy and vicious gossip concerning men of eminence.
63. Humanism exalts men and therefore the ____________________ of men.
64. If the United States can ____________________ history to favour federal employees, why should not the U.S.S.R. history history to make claims for its citizens?
Trials by Ordeal and the Law of Nature
65. The belief was that the test or trial would result in _________________ vindication of the innocent and rejection of the guilty.
66. In the Biblical law of jealousy, it is not nature but __________________ who is the judge.
67. The doctrine of ____________________ justice is related to this concept of the ordeal and is a sophisticated version of it.
68. In terms of Biblical law, the ordeal has no place and is entirely alien to its declaration of the ____________________ of God.
69. Not man but God and the law of God are ____________________, and His law must be the criterion of judgment.
Assignment
Write out from memory Ex. 20:1-16.
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