What is Theonomy?

Chalcedon president, Mark Rushdoony, on the definition and meaning of theonomy.
Learn more at chalcedon.edu

[@generationalstewardship]

Thank you, it is very refreshing to hear someone Godly call the modern money system theft!

[@petelarose998]

God bless you.

[@morrisdennis]

We should strive 2 study and obey & enforce divine laws imo...

[@mariosangermano5709]

I understand what you're saying. God's law is supreme, it's the best possible justice we could have. God is sovereign etc and as a Calvinist I believe all that. But in studying theonomy from Dr Bonson and listening to sermons by Jeff Durbin, James White, whom I love listening to and agree with on almost all doctrines, I have to part ways with them on Theonomy. And I don't mean part ways as in we are no longer. brothers in Christ. Why do I part ways with them on this ussue. 1) Because theonomy leads to a false post millenialist view of eschatology. 2) It claims the church without Christ here will Christianize the world before Jesus comes back and we will present the Lord a millennial time which according to them isn't really a millennium. And we'll have great peace and prosperity before Christ returns. 3) Its just another name for dominionism that the word of faith heretics and Charismatics preach, which is really a sort of prosperity gospel. 5) It alagorizes every prophetic event in Daniel and Revelation. 6) It claims all of Daniel and Revelation except for Christ second coming happened in or about AD 70 destruction of Jerusalem, which is impossible. 8) All my claims can be substantiated by scripture. 9) And finally it blatantly ignores the Noaic, Abrahamic, and Mosaic covenants. You cannot ignore or spiritualize away those covenants or claim the Abrahamic covenant was completely fulfilled and have a right understanding of Israel and the end times. Very poor hermeneutics on their part. You have to create a different hermeneutic for each testament to reach their conclusions.

[@jakeabbatacola5092]

You’re very wrong on just about every point.

[@Orthodoxy.Memorize.Scripture]

Great explanation.

[@melindalemmon2149]

GOD'S CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, that is, his prescription for government, is the only perfectly just and righteous model for government. It is meet for all men. It will be established soon. Lord, haste the day!

[@claesvanoldenphatt9972]

So you plan on having some XX c. version of Protestant shariah soon? Not in my United States of America! This is a secular nation, not a theocracy! Move to Iran if you want that, or try the new Afghanistan. You have NO place in the land of the free!

[@claesvanoldenphatt9972]

@The Traditionalist debased

[@melindalemmon2149]

PLEASE SEE BOB ENYART'S BOOK, GOD'S CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, FOR A COMPREHENSIVE VIEW OF WHAT GOD HAS SAID IN HIS OWN WORDS.

[@morrisdennis]

Blood animal sacrifices are obsolete...

[@claesvanoldenphatt9972]

My kingdom is not of this world - Jesus Christ.

[@claesvanoldenphatt9972]

@royal priest So these men are competent to interpret God’s will? That worked out so well everywhere else, which is why most people are apostate these days. Your confirmation bias is stunning.

[@claesvanoldenphatt9972]

@royal priest I’m triggered? You shot your own foot. Christ’s Kingship is not a place it’s his Lordship as Alpha and Omega, conqueror of death and Incarnate God seated at the Right Hand of the Father. Dominionism is chiliastic heresy based on the paranoid fantasies of an Armenian American whose parents were traumatized by the Turk. It has no place in Christianity but belongs to the toolkit of authoritarians who resemble no one so much as the Ayatollahs of Iran. Get your head straight.

[@jpfiero]

@@claesvanoldenphatt9972 insults are a sign of a failed argument, its painfully obvious in in your case. Look around you if you want to see what mans attempt at making "law" brings.

[@claesvanoldenphatt9972]

@@jpfiero the intellectual ninny takes insult at fact. Your reply indicates you have no use for civilization. Move to Iran or Russia. The moral - legal climate there will suit you better.

[@Maximus_W]

The 1689 rejects theonomy!

[@jakeabbatacola5092]

The Bible rejects the 1689.

[@goodmorning6827]

The Christian Right needs to be crushed.

[@Adrian-qi5ii]

Theonomy for all

[@goodmorning6827]

@@Adrian-qi5ii Theonomy is fascism

[@Adrian-qi5ii]

@@goodmorning6827 According to your definition? Theonomy is theonomy, fascism is fascism.

[@goodmorning6827]

@@Adrian-qi5ii BORING

[@Adrian-qi5ii]

@@goodmorning6827 .