It is man, not the state, who is created in the image of God. For the state to usurp the governing functions beyond its appointed place is to attempt to play god. In every instance of such a usurpation, there is either resentment or rebellion against the state. When it seeks to supplant men, it cuts itself off from men and from humanity and becomes inhuman, an ironic conclusion for the humanistic state. Then, instead of godly work as the means to dominion, coercion takes its place.
Coercion leads to a repression of freedom and responsibility, and finally to death.
Hence we must call statism the politics of death. The Bible requires, for offenses against certain aspects of God's justice, the penalty of death. The humanistic state requires the death penalty, not for violations of God's justice, but the state's laws. Death then becomes the final solution to problems, the first step being statist coercion. This, however, is increasingly the solution to all problems confronting the modern state.