This is what they have done for almost two millennia. With the collapse of natural law theory after Darwin, Christian social theory has floundered. Everyone standing behind this target has been epistemologically defenseless ever since. Summary Go threatens His covenant people with negative corporate sanctions in history. God's people are to walk uprightly before Him.
Disobedience brings corporate negative sanctions.
The essence of these sanctions is disinheritance . The fear of God is the key issue. This fear was mediated by a fear of national invasion. Negative sanctions soften men's resistance to God. Terror and consumption are sanctions.