The basis for political decisions in this modern system was to be dynastic or national power and glory. . . . But the point that concerns us here is that the international law has been conceived as independent of Christianity, and that with certain exceptions, the states inhabited by Christians have thus made their decisions on avowedly a-Christian

In the view of historians, the general pattern of the Age of Reason can now be identified. . . . The special effort of the Enlightenment was to find a foundation in every field, from the profane sciences to revelation, from music to morals, and theology to commerce, such that thinking and action could be made independent of speculative metaphysics

Everything for the State; nothing outside the State; nothing against the State (Mussolini).

Since the Fall it has always been unlawful to use the law of God in hopes of establishing one’s own personal merit and justification, in contrast or complement to salvation by way of promise and faith; commitment to obedience is but the lifestyle of faith, a token of gratitude for God’s redeeming grace. 2. The word of the Lord is the sole, supreme,

in all areas of life; this word naturally includes God’s moral directives (law). 3. Our obligation to keep the law of God cannot be judged by any extrascriptural standard, such as whether its specific requirements (when properly interpreted) are congenial to past traditions or modern feelings and practices. 4. We should presume that Old Testament

The State incarnates the Divine Idea upon earth (Hegel). The State is the supreme power, ultimate and beyond repeal, absolutely independent (Fichte).

Because there is one only Lord and Master who has dominion over our consciences, and because his will is the only principle of all justice, we confess all our life ought to be ruled in accordance with the commandments of his holy law in which is contained all perfection of justice, and that we ought to have no other rule of good and just living,

Since the rule of Christ and God’s law has been restricted to individual commitment and (if anywhere) private conscience, man has seen himself as free to generate or reject, as his own ethical authority, moral ideals and obligation. Individualism and liberty become the only absolutes which govern interpersonal relations.16 To “be yourself ” and do

perverted, and, instead of the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Man became his goal, and towers of Babel have, in one form or another, consistently occupied his energies.