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1 | Personal rights predating government | Ex 22:2 | d.Thomas Dell | 199053 | ||
These verses are the legal precedence, for the US courts, that our modern laws concerning the right to protect one’s life and property came from, despite what the ACLU says. | ||||||
2 | Personal rights predating government | Ex 22:2 | DocTrinsograce | 199079 | ||
Hi, Dell... Welcome to the forum! I think, if you really dig into history, you will find that the Founders understood something called Natural Law. "We hold these truths to be self evident..." That thinking goes way back, of course. I think you might even find evidences of it predating Moses. One of 16th century scholars of the Reformation, Richard Hooker (1554-1600), defined law as "an exact rule wherby humane actions are measured. The rule to measure and judge them by is the law of God... Under the name of law we must comprehend not only that which god hath written in tables and leaves but that which nature hath ingraven in the hartes of men. Els how should those heathen which never had bookes but heaven and earth to look upon be convicted of perversnes? 'But the Gentils which had not the law in books had saith the apostle theffect of the law written in their hartes.' Romans ii:xiv" In Him, Doc |
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3 | Personal rights predating government | Ex 22:2 | skccab | 199081 | ||
Shalom Doc, You're absolutely right, those "laws" did pre-date Moses - I probably have the spelling wrong but it is(was) called the Hammurabi Code. (There are some differences between the two laws, though.) Anti-Bible people tend to use that to try to take away the divine inspiration of the Bible. (This is all I know about it :-) ). Cheri |
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4 | Personal rights predating government | Ex 22:2 | DocTrinsograce | 199100 | ||
Hi, Cheri... The Hammurabi Code wasn't what I was talking about. Natural law theory asserts that the judgments of good and evil are not just arbitrary judgments of convenience or of political usefulness, but are fundamentally located in the very nature of men themselves. It is what men can know about right and wrong without the assistance of revelation. This idea is supported, as Hooker asserts, by Romans 2:14. Natural law is an idea that forms the basis of the philosophy of John Locke (1632-1704); from which the Framers drew in their thinking. However, the idea goes farther back than that. I seem to recall Thomas Aquinas writing about (13th century). I'm certain it even goes back farther than that. It gets kind of complicated. I probably should have left well enough alone. Never mind. :-) In Him, Doc |
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5 | Personal rights predating government | Ex 22:2 | azurelaw | 199107 | ||
Dear Doc, Maybe we don't have to go too far wayback to centuries ago but reading the 1st chapter "The Law of Human Nature" of Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis) for grasping some idea. Shalom Azure |
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