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Our Program: A Christian Political Manifesto - Lexham Press.
Our Program: A Christian Political Manifesto
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“In the face of these fictions and monstrous theories we resolutely maintain the following three propositions: (1) political authority, like every other form of sovereign authority in life, flows from the living God; (2) for the transfer of this authority in the course of history the Lord uses both lawful and unlawful deeds of men; and (3) the transfer takes place to single individuals, to dynasties, to institutions, or to the nation as a whole.” (Page 23)
“Sovereignty in an absolute sense occurs only when there is an authority that has no other authority over it, that always commands and never obeys, that does not admit of restrictions or allow competition, and that is single and undivided for all that has breath.” (Page 16)
“In sum, sovereign political authority that is exercised among the nations of the earth has to cooperate with the laws that govern the life of mankind; wi