Deluded Hopes

The Centre Cannot Hold

The NZ Taxpayers Union has published the following Quote of the Week:

“Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it.”

– Winston Churchill

Over 450 years ago, the Scottish divine, Samuel Rutherford published Lex Rex, a treatise arguing that the King was to be subject to the law.  Churchill was walking in Rutherford's footsteps, whether he was aware of it or not.  We are certain that the NZ Taxpayers Union is not aware of it. 

Without a conviction--individual and societal--of God's existence and eternal, absolute governance, there is no case that can be sustained for a supreme law above human institutions.  The respect in which men have held Magna Carta would thus prove to be ungrounded and delusional.  Without the eternal judgment and vengeance of God upon evil and evildoers there are no limits to evil laws and evil lawmaking.  Without God, the law is a wax nose to be shaped inevitably by tyrants--whether it be the tyranny of the mob, of fashion, or of the fifty-one percent, or of latter day elites. 

Without the Living God the centre cannot hold.  The West is recklessly proving the point.