1 God’s Design of Society LIFE (protected)LIFE (jeopardized) MARRIAGE & FAMILY (strong & functioning) MARRIAGE & FAMILY (weak & disfunctional) LABOR & PROPERTY (respected & productive) LABOR & PROPERTY (demeaned & wasted) INTEGRITY of COMMUNICATION (consistently states truth ) INTEGRITY of COMMUNICATION (deceitfully professes truth for agendas) HEART ALLEGIANCE (to God) HEART ALLEGIANCE (to self)

GOVERNANCE is a Zero-Sum Game 2

3 Wisdom Principles Principle #1: Pick your battle, but pick one! 3 Principle #2: Seek to separate as peaceably as possible; submission to authority whenever possible Principle #3: sell your proposal on a pragmatic basis

A portion of the Word of God presented to unbelief Unbelief reinterpreting the Word of God within its own categories “Unbelief controls my interpretation of the situation” Unbelief swallowing up a bit of the word of God 4

Unbelief challenged at the foundational level “The Word controls my interpretation of the situation” Empowered by Eschatological Truths Unbelief forced into a contrast in many areas simultaneously A portion of the Word of God presented to unbelief as part of a network 5

Interlocking Framework Structure 6 CREATION FALL SALVATION JUDGMENT

Creation: God, man, nature geology, dating, archeology Call of Abraham: revealed contract Sinai: revealed contract Prophets’ contract follow-up History of Jews from 2000 BC to 586 BC Specific prophecies of the Ideal Leader/ Messiah Birth of the King: Hypostatic Union Life of the King: revelation, infallibility Interlocking Framework of Biblical Revelation 7

"That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hope and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruin – all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy that rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation henceforth be safely built.” Bertrand Russell, “A Free Man’s Religion” (1903) essay in Mysticism and Logic (1917) pg THE “END” IN WESTERN ENLIGHTENMENT THOUGHT

Who has the REAL “Evil problem”? 9 Christian: Good / Evil mix is “abnormal” and temporary Pagan: Good / Evil mix is permanently “normal” ∞∞ GOOD EVIL GOOD EVIL ∞ ∞ GOOD

“Wherever it is clearly conceived as a metaphysical reality, resurrection annihilates every premise and every conclusion of the Marxist, Freudian, and Darwinian schools of thought. It erases the premise of Marxism by positing a version of humanity independent of the natural food chain; it cancels the premise of Freudianism by furnishing a degree of vitality so absolute that temporary sexual euphoria loses all meaning; and it destroys the whole point of evolution by bringing mankind to absolute physical perfection in an instant of transformation.” John Pilkey, Origin of the Nations (Master Books, 1984), 260, 281. “DOUBT of the RESURRECTION is the intellectual correlative of SIMPLE DEPRESSION”