We so easily forget the Fall touches the human intellect, not least because the Fall is almost entirely based on the decision to place human intellect as master over the will. This is entirely contrary to what God had in mind. The intellect is not capable of operating on the level of the Spirit Realm. The intellect is fallen as part of humanity’s fallen nature; any other view is a heresy, since it is bluntly stated in Scripture several places.
Thus, if we enslave the intellect in service to the Spirit, all is as well as it can be. If we allow the intellect to actually rule, we will inevitably fail to please God.
Systematic Theology is a primary example of intellect attempting to usurp the Spirit. The mind is granted by God to organize how we shall implement the imponderable imperatives of the Spirit. If we somehow conclude our individual organization is binding on others, we are walking in sin. Your mental organization of serving Christ need not apply to others simply on the basis of a presumption your theorizing is logical. The human standards of logic are a pitiful excuse for ignoring the Spirit. God’s logic is well outside the boundaries of ours.
The same can be said of any political theory. God’s Laws don’t lend themselves completely to human logic. Ignoring the fundamental assumptions behind God’s Laws will inevitably leave you standing without any grasp of moral imperatives. Given the entire range or Western rationalism is built on the a priori rejection of revelation, it’s no surprise every current political philosophy at some point violates God’s Laws.
Communism seems logical until you realize it works only when everyone is a saint. Socialism seems reasonable as a compromise until you realize socialist government inevitably draws the very worst of available humanity. The brightest and most productive minds are too busy and have no interest in government. What’s left are people who only carry a pretense of genius as a cover for the insatiable urge to control others by some internal vision of logic. Good moral people don’t want to govern others. The same applies to any of the various forms of democratic, republican or parliamentary governments. They all are built on the human intellect as the ultimate rule. Libertarian government would be morally the same as communism, in that it falsely assumes man’s mind can work out the logic of what matters most. All of them presume the necessity of the state.
All of them fail. The Laws of God elevate one guiding principle they all ignore: social stability. Even when you can get them to admit this matters most, all those theories insist getting there must follow some rational orthodoxy created on the basis of rejecting God’s Laws. God’s Laws presume only your kinfolks are permitted to decide on daily operations in pursuit of social stability. The individual is an asset — property, if you will — of the family, not of the civil government. Social and civil affairs are never, ever to be joined under one authority. When you reject God’s Laws, the moral fabric of the created universe will work against you, without fail. That the rational approach ignores the underlying assumptions guarantees none of these theoretical frameworks will ever notice what the problem is. They will always propose some mythological answer that appears rational on some level, but still fails to meet the demands of morality as God defines it.
What we are left with is a set of practices which cannot obey any particular theory, since none of them actually work. Your political orthodoxy is blasphemy.
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