Date: 1/22/25
Chapter 23: On Civil Authorities
- Civil authority is ordained by God.
- Sproul 509
- Christians can serve in government.
- Elder discussion: last part about “just war” may be an exception for more pacifistic leaning leaders
- Sproul 515
- The civil government and the church have different authoritative jurisdictions. Neither are to meddle in the affairs of the others — neither are to take on a role that is not theirs.
- Sproul 518 and 520
- All of the pope language is a response to Catholicism as the Westminster Confession was being written still in the early stages of protestantism.
- Sproul 522-23