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Wes Burroughs
8 years ago

I enjoyed your last few short and punchy posts. But can you explain what you mean in this one?

"A" dad
"A" dad
8 years ago
Reply to  Wes Burroughs

“Precisely because we are not disembodied spirits,…”
We are bodied spirits, or because as human beings in this life,we are also material beings, material rights, aka property rights, are one in the same.
Material rights are for material beings.

Zac Slade
Zac Slade
8 years ago

Not having read the book, I suppose the truth affects everyone (like it or not). So, if this implies that we can accurately refer to our bodies as the property of our spirits, then property rights are necessary for any semblance of early liberty (such as freedom to move our bodies about at will). On the same lines, if we were incorporeal then human rights would be unnecessary, as we understand them.

ashv
ashv
8 years ago

Why should Christians have anything to do with the concept of “human rights” at all?

doug sayers
doug sayers
8 years ago

Thanks for this one, Doug.

It is, indeed, quite important that we understand (and submit to) God’s sovereign right to “deputize” His creatures with certain rights and authority. We should also recognize that these rights come with reasonable responsibilities and the necessary grace to meet them.

I trust that we all agree that the biblical God is not like Pharoah, who demanded that which is impossible under the threat of severe penalty.