Quotes Nov 9

It always seems inexplicable to me that those who claim free will so very boldly for man should not also allow some free will to God. Why should not Jesus Christ have the right to choose his own bride?-- Charles Spurgeon

The sovereign, original and foundation of all civil power lies in the people ... And if so, that people make you erect and establish what form of government seems to them most meet for their civil condition. It is evident that such governments as are by then erected and established, have no more power, nor for no longer time, then the civil power shall betrust them with. This is clear not only in reason, what in the experience of all commonwealths, where the people are not deprived of their natural freedom by the power of tyrants. - Roger Williams, The bloody tenant of persecution, 1644, quoted in Richard Forbes, Humanism and human rights, p4

The mythology of an age so dominates the mind and culture of man that his thought and action find expression within the mythological framework. Fallen man relates himself more readily to his culture myths them to reality. Any approach to a discussion of the christian idea of the state runs therefore counter to the spirit of the age and the accepted frameworks of thought and action. - - Rousas John Rushdoony, in  Herman Dooyeweerd, The christian idea of the state, p.vii