num_pages: 912
description: To attempt to study Scripture without studying its law is to deny it. To attempt to understand Western civilization apart from the impact of Biblical law within it and upon it is to seek a fictitious history and to reject twenty centuries and their progress.The Institutes of Biblical Law has as it's purpose a reversal of the present trend. It is called "Institutes" in the older meaning of that word, i.e., fundamental principles, here of law, because it is intended as a beginning, as an instituting consideration of that law which must govern society, and which shall govern society under God. It is a modern heresy that holds that the law of God has no meaning nor any binding force for man today. It is an aspect of the influence of humanistic and evolutionary thought on the church and it posits an evolving and developing god. This "dispensational" god expressed himself in law in an earlier age, then later expressed himself by grace alone, and is now perhaps to express himself in still ano
language: English
title: The Institutes of Biblical Law, Volume 1 of 3
titlecomplete: The Institutes of Biblical Law, Volume 1 of 3
genres: Nonfiction, Cultural, Theology, School, Reference, Christian, Law, History, Christianity, Politics
ratings_count: 298
series: The Institutes of Biblical Law
publisher: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co.