All posts by Samuel Adams

I've lived in Canon City my whole life. It makes me sick to think of where this country is headed. The solutions are in God's Word.
Abolish The Police, Police Abuse, Power Trip

True Police Slogans

A popular slogan for police around the country is: “To Protect and Serve.” Of course, police actions make a mockery of that.

Here’s a few ideas for what their slogan ought to be.

  1. Comply or Die
  2. To Terrorize and Collect
  3. Home of the Fee, Land of the Slave
  4. Respect Our Authority
  5. We Are the Law
  6. POLICE. Also Judge, Jury and Executioner
  7. To Harass and Molest
  8. Obey and Survive
  9. To Seize and Collect

And the best slogan is:

10. No slogan, because taxpayers have to pay for the lettering, and it’s wasteful of their money, and there shouldn’t be police anyway, because they are unbiblical and unconstitutional.

 

Abolish The Police, Abortion

This Is What I’ve Been Talking About

This FBI agent believes abortion is wrong, but he’s going to uphold the law anyway. That is unacceptable for a Christian.

If your job requires you to enforce evil laws, you need to subvert your superiors, or quit. Being a cop in America requires you to enforce unjust laws, and do so in an unbiblical and unconstitutional manner. Find a new job that doesn’t require you to sin. Start a private security company or become a body guard or private investigator or something, but for pete’s sake, stop helping abortionists kill babies!

Abortionists rest easy at night knowing there are no good cops.

I’ve talked about this all before, including a cop I found who did the right thing, but this is an excellent example of what I’ve been talking about:

Conversation, Theonomy

Youtube Theonomy Discussion

I think this person hasn’t debated theonomy before, or thought much about these issues, but it is still an interesting discussion.

This person is a dispensationalist. I will admit I haven’t studied much about covenant theology, but the one thing I know is that dispensationalism is preposterous.

Rainy Day said:

I just sold my condo couple weeks ago. do I still have a right to that condo? No! In the beginning when God chose Abraham, the father of the Jews, he wanted a peculiar people to himself. He was their God, until they rebelled in the wilderness under Moses leadership. This is called the OT dispensation. the new dispensation is called grace. One of the scholar asked Jesus at one time, what is the greatest law among all the laws in the OT. Jesus said there are only 2, and on these two hang all the laws and prophets.

Moses laws: there were 10.

Jesus laws: Only 2.
1. you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and might.
2. you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Hey, but check out Moses laws, and compare to Jesus laws, aren’t they the same? first 5 has to do with God, the last five has to do with men. Paul, John, James called them “royal laws”. the book of Leviticus is full of “laws”, call them civil or whatever. but the BIG TEN are called “moral laws”. these applies to every creature living in Gods universe!

If God were to run America today, we would end up just like the Jews, REBELLED!! rebelled because His laws were too restrictive, that is why God rewrote another contract and gave it to Jesus to sign it with His blood, its called GRACE(God’s Riches At Christ Expense)!

Loving God and obeying His moral laws is by choice. You have a choice to love God or reject Him. He is not holding a gun to your head!!

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I said:

We are saved by grace through faith, and not of works. Yet, we still live under thousands of federal, state and local laws. What do these civil laws (mostly unjust) have to do with my salvation? If anything, they cause people to sin and hinder people from getting saved. Wouldn’t it be better to have perfect laws?

Concerning Jesus’ two laws, they were a summary of the law, and He was quoting Deut. 6 & Leviticus 19. To summarize something isn’t to replace the thing you’re summarizing, but to express it simply.

Also, the civil laws of Moses were case laws of the Ten Commandments–an explanation of them. If you want a thorough understanding of “You shall not murder,” read the case laws. How should murder be punished? If someone is killed accidentally, what should happen? If two men are fighting and one dies, is the guy guilty of murder? And many more questions.

We can have man’s laws, or we can have God’s laws.

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Rainy Day said:

I was trying to say simply that we are no longer under the old covenant, but under the new covenant. It’s all there in the book of Hebrews. the ten commandments which include, thou shalt not kill are called “God’s Royal laws(the big ten) which Jesus indeed simplified them when He said, there are only two laws, love God and love your neighbor. Man’s laws are Gods laws, and we are commanded by Paul of Tarsus to follow them too because they are the law of the land put there by God!

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I said:

Jesus said, “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. 18 For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished. 19 Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:17-19).

We are under a new covenant for our salvation. But the law is an expression of God’s character. To ignore it (if that’s what you’re saying) is to miss the point. It is still valuable.

Your surface-level interpretation of Romans 13:1-7 contradicts the rest of Scripture. When Paul was executed was Rome acting as an “avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil”?

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Rainy Day said:

Yes, I know. so what do you do with these verses in Hebrews?
1. Hebrews 4:9,
2. Hebrews 8, the whole chapter explains in detail what Jesus sacrifice means. When Jesus was talking in the verses you mentioned above, he was talking before His crucifixion! a sacrifice once and for all! Christians are confused because they don’t understand covenants! When He said, “it is finished”, it means its done! A peace treaty thats based on his blood which is more valuable than animals blood. The blood not only forgives sins, it also restores whatever we lost in the garden of eden because of adam choice! the grace dispensation is so much better than the law dispensation.

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I said:

If a cop pulls you over for speeding, do you tell him you don’t have to pay the ticket because you’re under grace? We’re not talking about salvation. We’re talking about the laws of the land. Do you prefer God’s law or man’s law?

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End Public School

Khan Academy Destroys Public School

This is an excellent article about how government schooling is officially obsolete. Granted, there are people who will fight the truth of its obsolescence to the death, but it is a fact.

In the article, Gary North makes many of the same points I made in my endpublicschool.com article, where my points 5 and 6 were:

5. The free market will offer better, cheaper, non-violent solutions and choices to people.

6. Public School is technologically obsolete.

Khan Academy is not supported by money stolen from people by the government, but is a superior means of educating people. The free market offers better solutions.

The socialist public school system, propped up by the violence of the state, harms innovation and keeps bad employees around through unions and tenure. Check out the article as Gary North is a far more interesting writer than I am.

Conversation, Theonomy

Does the Noahic Covenant Prohibit the Death Penalty for All But Murder?

Here’s a little more analysis of the discussion on theonomy from the other day.

I initially asked about their claim that the death penalty for bestiality was unjust, and in his first comment, C Jay said, “And the Bible, properly interpreted, does not give permission to anyone to execute capital punishment except in the case of murder per the Noahic Covenant.”

Here’s Genesis 9:5-6, the relevant portion of the Noahic covenant to which he is referring, “And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man. Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.”

But is this passage teaching that the death penalty is only to be used for murder? It specifies the death penalty for murder, but specifies no penalty for anything else. If you’re going to take this to say that only murderers should receive the death penalty, then you have to say that the government shouldn’t punish any other crime, including rape and kidnapping.

That is certainly not what Genesis 9 is teaching, but C Jay never responds to the objection that that is where his logic leads. Here is why C Jay’s is wrong that the death penalty is prohibited by the Noahic Covenant (except for murder):

1. The doctrine of bloodguiltiness.
2. The Mosaic civil law wasn’t given to only the Israelites.
3. The Noahic covenant isn’t called law.

Bloodguiltiness

In Genesis 4, Cain murders Abel, and Abel’s innocent blood has a voice that calls out to the Lord (Genesis 4:10). God is aware of every drop of innocent blood that is shed, and He will account for it, as He says in Genesis 9. This is called the doctrine of bloodguiltiness.

And later in history, the Lord reveals that murder isn’t the only crime that causes bloodguiltiness. In Leviticus 20:10-16, several different sexual sins are listed, including bestiality and homosexuality. For each of the sexual sins listed it says, “their blood is upon them.” These sexual sins don’t involve the shedding of blood, yet there is bloodguilt in the sin, so the death penalty is pronounced for each one. Is bloodguilt something that comes and goes with covenants? Certainly not.

The Law Wasn’t Given to Only The Israelites

Saying that the law was only given to the Israelites is a point that also fizzles under more scrutiny. Leviticus 20:23 says, “And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them.” The Canaanites that lived in Israel’s land before them suffered the death penalty at the hand of the Israelites for all the sins listed in that chapter, including the sexual sins. The Lord expected them to be sexually pure. There are other examples of other nations adopting or being held accountable to Israel’s law.

The Noahic Prohibition of Murder Isn’t Called Law

Romans 5:13-14 says that there was no law until Moses. That would preclude the Noahic covenant as offering a law. The rest of Scripture never calls the laws of any other country law. It often refers to their lawlessness–even nations that prided themselves on their laws, like the Romans. Check out this excellent article on that topic.

Conclusion

It is wishful thinking to believe that the Noahic covenant prohibits the death penalty for all but murder. Genesis 9 is only nine chapters into the Bible. The Lord, starting in the next book of the Torah, reveals a perfect and just civil law. If you reject it, there is no standard of justice to call any civil law just or unjust. C Jay (and none of the others I’ve ever asked these questions of) ever answered my questions about justice, because there are no answers. C Jay refused to discuss those questions, claiming that his covenant theology dictates that theonomy is wrong.

Well, if there’s one thing I know, it’s that theonomy is true, and C Jay never provided one valid argument against it. So if your other theology dictates that theonomy is wrong, either your other theology is wrong, or you’ve misapplied it.

End Public School, Taxation

Cut Off Funding

This is a great interview! Chipping away at local issues  is something the average person can be doing. Everyone is worried about the presidential candidates while it’s the local school district, building department and police that are killing liberty. What if we were able to eliminate a proposed tax increase to support those organizations– Or maybe even cut their budget?

I’ve always thought of local politics as boring, but I can really have no effect on a presidential election, whereas I can have an effect on local issues.

Here’s the interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-uDzLu2LEw

And here’s Paul Dorr’s website:  www.rollbacklocalgov.com

Abolish The Police, Resistance to Tyranny is Obedience to God

Refuse Service to Thugs

A Whataburger employee near Dallas refused service to two cops. I wouldn’t recommend doing that. You’ll probably end up being sued in today’s evil age. However, I certainly believe that any business that doesn’t want to do business with someone ought to be able to refuse service to anyone they want, for any reason they want.

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And, I can see why someone wouldn’t want to do business with cops. They are the agents of a government and a country under God’s wrath, who enforce evil, pagan, unjust laws.

Where to operate a restaurant, you have to:

  • Do business with people you don’t want to do business with.
  • Prohibit people from smoking on your own property.
  • Get all kinds of permits to start a business.
  • Get permits to remodel your building.
  • Pay exorbitant property taxes.
  • Pay exorbitant income taxes.
  • Jump though tons of hoops when hiring employees.
  • Collect sales tax on every sale and send it in.

Whatever you’re angry about the government doing, you can thank a cop for forcing people to do it.

For example, try remodeling or operating a restaurant without government permits. Initially a bureaucrat will show up. This guy doesn’t carry a gun, and doesn’t force anyone to do anything. But if you don’t cooperate with him, rest assured the cops will be close behind, and they will force you to do what the bureaucrat says.

So I’m completely understanding of the Whataburger guy not wanting to serve cops. I hope more businesses stop serving cops.

Abolish The Police, Police Abuse, Power Trip

Ignorance of the Law Is No Excuse

I can see why this cop wouldn’t know about the right to free speech, and is scared of having people lined up leafleting. After all, the right to free speech is covered in the 8973rd Amendment, paragraph (j), section (iii).

Oh wait. That’s not right. It’s the First Amendment. He’s just on a massive, ignorance-fueled power trip.

But you know what really galls me is the people thanked the cop at the end. I realize it’s probably just habit, and it makes me mad, because I’ve done the same thing. I’ve thanked cops for handing me a ticket. It makes me sick thinking about it. They should thank me.

Of course, every single on of that cop’s paychecks is him committing fraud. He’s supposed to know the law. Soliciting is selling something. Passing out literature isn’t soliciting.

Here’s the best comment on this video:

“Sorry, Officer, you can’t use the terms “break it up” or “get a permit” without a special permit from the “break it up / get a permit” licensing board, which is located in Room 1984 of the Doubleplusgood Building on Oceania Boulevard. Yeah yeah, being a policeman gives you certain authority, blah blah blah, never mind, just be a good boy and run along to the licensing office. Quit asking why.”

I can see why that dirtbag would be against passing out Constitutions.