The Light and the Rod: Volume 1, Why Biblical Governance Works (eBook, ePUB)
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We live in an increasingly secular world, a world where man focuses more and more upon himself. As a result, we are no longer educated in the things that truly matter. We've forgotten what brought us as a people so far in such a relatively short period of time.The Light and the Rod examines two sets of ideas shaping how man chooses to live with others. They order society in incompatible ways. One brings success; freedom, personal liberty, progress, and peace. The other breeds failure in many forms; oppression, compliance, division, and unrest.As a people, we must choose one. But why does one w...
We live in an increasingly secular world, a world where man focuses more and more upon himself. As a result, we are no longer educated in the things that truly matter. We've forgotten what brought us as a people so far in such a relatively short period of time.
The Light and the Rod examines two sets of ideas shaping how man chooses to live with others. They order society in incompatible ways. One brings success; freedom, personal liberty, progress, and peace. The other breeds failure in many forms; oppression, compliance, division, and unrest.
As a people, we must choose one. But why does one work and the other fail? The Light and the Rod's two volumes explore that question. The answers are there, because truth never changes. False ideas, on the other hand, must continually reinvent themselves to be accepted because they come from man alone.
Volume one surveys these two sets of ideas. We can find in them in the words of Plato, Aristotle, Clement of Alexandria, Plotinus, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas. They display themselves in history; from Rome's fall, through the Middle Ages, to the Renaissance and Enlightenment, and the experiment that is America.
The second volume dives into two additional sets of ideas with us today. Ideas we find in the words of those such as Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Rousseau, and Muhammad. They claim to be new or different, but they are not. Their ideas are simply corruptions of earlier ones, and they lead to the same place as their borrowed sourcefailure.
This topic is timelier than I'd ever imagined. We see both sets of ideas being employed during the current Coronavirus outbreak. Not only across different countries, but across America itself through each governor's actions. China and Michigan; Sweden and South Dakota. Each different, but also alike. At stake are the basic notions society rests on; who brings order to society, what is law's purpose and scope, what is freedom, ownership versus stewardship, and how does each define justice. All these and more are at stake. If you want to be free, you first need to learn what that phrase really means. You will find the answers in very few places within our education system today. But the answers are there, and the kind of life you want to live depends on them.
The Light and the Rod examines two sets of ideas shaping how man chooses to live with others. They order society in incompatible ways. One brings success; freedom, personal liberty, progress, and peace. The other breeds failure in many forms; oppression, compliance, division, and unrest.
As a people, we must choose one. But why does one work and the other fail? The Light and the Rod's two volumes explore that question. The answers are there, because truth never changes. False ideas, on the other hand, must continually reinvent themselves to be accepted because they come from man alone.
Volume one surveys these two sets of ideas. We can find in them in the words of Plato, Aristotle, Clement of Alexandria, Plotinus, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas. They display themselves in history; from Rome's fall, through the Middle Ages, to the Renaissance and Enlightenment, and the experiment that is America.
The second volume dives into two additional sets of ideas with us today. Ideas we find in the words of those such as Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Rousseau, and Muhammad. They claim to be new or different, but they are not. Their ideas are simply corruptions of earlier ones, and they lead to the same place as their borrowed sourcefailure.
This topic is timelier than I'd ever imagined. We see both sets of ideas being employed during the current Coronavirus outbreak. Not only across different countries, but across America itself through each governor's actions. China and Michigan; Sweden and South Dakota. Each different, but also alike. At stake are the basic notions society rests on; who brings order to society, what is law's purpose and scope, what is freedom, ownership versus stewardship, and how does each define justice. All these and more are at stake. If you want to be free, you first need to learn what that phrase really means. You will find the answers in very few places within our education system today. But the answers are there, and the kind of life you want to live depends on them.
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