Talk:Theonomy

Article needs improvement. Theonomy is also a concept in the thought of the late Pope John Paul II. Rusell Hittinger's _The First Grace_ touches upon this. I'll see if I can make the time to improve the article myself. --KJJ 04:43, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)

One must also remember that theonomy, in the Calvinist sense, not the Pope John Paul II sense, is not only a belief in the Reconstruction of the Law of God, the Torah, but the belief that Christ's domain will eventually stretch throughout the world. It is at this point that the Torah will be applied once again, as in ancient Covenantal Israel. Before this time, establishment of the Law would not be understood by most, for they lack the knowledge that theonomists have: that Christ rules the world, and one day every knee will bow to Him. Thus, the theonomist's act, at the present, in any case, is to spread the Good News throughout the globe and to make people understand that Christ is the One King of the World. --Eric Hendrickson. September 17, 2005.

Theonomy is basically bypassing the hard work of bringing people to the cross for individual conversion (the Great Commission) by making obedience to God a matter of civil law, sort of like handling almsgiving by having the government take it out of your paycheck before you see it. Paul had a problem with theonomy when he wrote in Galatians 5:4, "Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace." --Her girlfriend 21:34, 19 February 2006 (UTC)