NXR Podcast - QUESTIONS - How Can I Learn To Apply God’s Law To All Of Life?
Aired: 2022-04-08
Duration: 04:16


=== Biblical Principles for Discernment (02:55) ===

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[00:00:22]  What is a list of books that help with applying God's law to our society, government, culture?
[00:00:29]  What do you think?
[00:00:29]  What are some good books?
[00:00:30]  Oh, a list of books for God's law.
[00:00:33]  Oh, okay.
[00:00:33]  For applying God's law beyond just the church to society.
[00:00:37]  I mean, AD was, I think, reading one, right?
[00:00:39]  Yeah, I mean, I've got it right here.
[00:00:40]  It's called The Institutes of Biblical Law by R.J. Rushduny.
[00:00:45]  And what I like about it is it's good as a reference.
[00:00:48]  It has a huge index in the back.
[00:00:50]  Any Bible verse you can think of, you just look it up and you'll see pages it's mentioned.
[00:00:54]  So you don't have to read the whole thing if you don't like to do that kind of thing.
[00:00:59]  And yeah, that's the one I would recommend because it's just, it's, It's thorough.
[00:01:04]  It's exhaustive.
[00:01:06]  Again, you can't believe literally everything he says.
[00:01:08]  You've got to use discernment, but it's very helpful.
[00:01:13]  I agree.
[00:01:14]  The Ten Commandments by Thomas Watson, The Puritans.
[00:01:17]  I think a lot of their stuff is really, really good.
[00:01:20]  Hear that?
[00:01:20]  John likes the Puritans.
[00:01:21]  He likes the Puritans.
[00:01:22]  Do you have a book recommendation?
[00:01:24]  Greg Bonson.
[00:01:25]  Yeah, I have, yeah, by this standard, right?
[00:01:28]  It's his book on that.
[00:01:30]  And I think I have Theonomy and Christian Ethics and stuff.
[00:01:32]  It has some good stuff to say about it.
[00:01:35]  I'm trying to think.
[00:01:36]  Honestly, this is kind of a weird answer in some ways, but so this isn't like.
[00:01:40]  Leviticus, is that what you're trying to say?
[00:01:43]  That's a good one.
[00:01:44]  That's a great one.
[00:01:45]  Nah, I'm an Exodus guy, actually.
[00:01:48]  No, some of the confessions, actually.
[00:01:50]  Some of the, yeah, this is the history answer here, but some of the historic confessions, I think, have some really good information on that.
[00:01:58]  So, yeah, like read the Westminster, and it doesn't go into specifics as much.
[00:02:03]  This, you know, Synod of Dort, and just really all of the historic confessions.
[00:02:08]  Confessions, the Heidelberg, they all have to deal with this somewhere along the line.
[00:02:11]  So, yeah, go to the primary source.
[00:02:14]  I like doing that.
[00:02:15]  Yeah, that's good.
[00:02:16]  And Toby Sumter, just to give him some props, he just recently wrote a 50 question catechism on God's design for government.
[00:02:24]  And it's on Canon Press.
[00:02:25]  He did a video of it where he gives the question and a short answer.
[00:02:28]  And it was fantastic.
[00:02:29]  It was really, really good.
[00:02:31]  And then all the Greg Bonson stuff, thanks to Jeff Durbin and James White, the Bonson family has given that to Apologia.
[00:02:39]  And so they started Bonson U, Bonson University.
[00:02:42]  All of it is now free through Apology and their ministry.
[00:02:46]  And for homeschool parents, some of this stuff can be heady.
[00:02:49]  And so I'm kind of, if those who listen to the podcast, I probably said before, like, I'm a paleo conservative, or at least I think I am.

=== God's Design for Government (01:20) ===

[00:02:56]  I consider myself that.
[00:02:57]  And I look at, like, there's principles in the Bible that should be applied.
[00:03:03]  I don't think it's a one for one necessarily.
[00:03:05]  And it's hard.
[00:03:06]  There's a certain context that the law was given, but I think it does apply, the principles of it.
[00:03:11]  And there's a book that I think you could use even with your kids because it's so simple.
[00:03:16]  And I don't even know where you could find it now, but it's by a guy named Peter Hammond.
[00:03:21]  It's called Biblical Principles for Africa.
[00:03:23]  It's not even for the United States, but I remember when I was probably a teenager, I found it somewhere.
[00:03:29]  I don't even know where I found it.
[00:03:30]  And it's super short, and it just goes through really basic stuff about property and the role of government.
[00:03:37]  And I just thought it was pretty clear.
[00:03:39]  So if you can pick up Peter Hammond's Biblical Principles for Africa, I think it's pretty good.
[00:03:43]  And his whole thing, just by the way, he's a missionary, and he's trying to show.
[00:03:47]  People in Africa that he's trying to teach.
[00:03:50]  Like, here's what the Bible says.
[00:03:52]  Because in some cases, they are trying to reform and start from scratch.
[00:03:56]  And they're asking these questions.
[00:03:58]  So that's why I think it's really good.
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