"...there are but two possible sources of civil power, viz., God and the people." - If power is from God, then God's law must prevail; if power be from the people, then the people's will shall prevail, and there is no principle of law above and over the people."
-R.J. Rushdoony from The Institutes of Biblical Law
“God is thus the principle of definition, of law, and of all things. He is the premise of all thinking, and the necessary presupposition for every sphere of thought. It is blasphemy therefore to attempt to "prove" God; God is the necessary presupposition of all proof. To ground any sphere of thought, life, or action, or any sphere of being, on anything other than the triune God is thus blasphemy. Education without God as its premise, law which does not presuppose God and rest on His law, a civil order which does not derive all authority from God, or a family whose foundation is not God's word, is blasphemous.”
-R.J. Rushdoony from The Institutes of Biblical Law
“Law premised on equality will simply assert the tyrannical supremacy of an elite group of men. True Law must rest on the absolute and only true God.”
-R.J. Rushdoony from The Institutes of Biblical Law
"The alternative to God’s law is not no law at all, but human law; governments which do not guard the majesty of God and His righteous law have no alternative and choice but to uphold the majesty of their own human authority ... If no higher law is adhered to, then the law of man is absolute; there is no logical barrier to stop such a state from becoming totalitarian. When the state’s will is substituted for God’s will, then the only real crimes become crimes against the state (as in Imperial Rome, present day Russia, and much of the United States), for example, treason, defection, and so forth ... There is no appeal beyond the state and its rulers when God’s law is put aside; man has no realm of justice to which he has recourse in opposing the will of the state ... For Christians the choice is between a law order based on God or the potentially tyrannical oppression of a law order resting in the arbitrary will and power of the secular state."
-Greg Bahnsen in Theonomy in Christian Ethics
