Showing posts with label Authority. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Authority. Show all posts

R.J. Rushdoony on God's Word as Our Authority

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 5:30 AM

“We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only God’s Word is the test. We ourselves readily develop a tolerance towards sin and evil: God’s Word remains the unceasingly clear and uncompromising Word.”

R.J. Rushdoony


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G.K Chesterton on Police Authority

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 5:30 AM

“Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.”

G.K. Chesterton


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Richard Sibbes on How Those in Authority Should Act

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, February 2, 2015 at 5:30 AM

“In the censures of the church, it is more suitable to the spirit of Christ to incline to the milder part, and not to kill a fly on the forehead with a mallet, nor shut men out of heaven for a trifle. The very snuffers (wick trimmers) of the tabernacle were made of pure gold, to show the purity of those censures whereby the light of the church is kept bright. The power that is given to the church is given for edification, not destruction. “
Richard Sibbes
(The Bruised Reed-pg 30)


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Abraham Kuyper on Spheres of Authority

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 8:00 AM


“Virtually all the modern world’s ills come down to this: even the state was claiming authority, that was not the state’s or was abdicating authority where it had legitimate authority. All the ills of the modern world comes down to this: the church has not had the background (some have this as "backbone") to stand against the state. The family has been left unprotected and parental prerogatives has been stolen so that society as God had intended it is no longer able to function under the Lordship of Christ and therefore, new principles and new ideas and new authorities and new sovereignties and new messiahs had been raised up in Christ’s stead.”
Abraham Kuyper


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Ulrich Zwingli on the Source of Authority

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 8:00 AM


"Whereas the jurisdiction and authority of the secular power is based on the teachings and actions of Christ."
Ulrich Zwingli


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Cornelius Van Til on Authority

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, October 10, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"There are those, of course, who deny that they need any form of authority. They are the popular atheists and agnostics. Such men say that they must be shown by 'reason' whatever they are to accept as true. But the great thinkers among non-Christian men have taken no such position. They know that they cannot cover the whole area of reality with their knowledge."
Cornelius Van Til


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Abraham Kuyper on Authority

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, October 19, 2009 at 8:31 AM

"The source of sovereign authority is found in God alone and not in the will of the people nor in human law. "
Abraham Kuyper

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