Government & the Nations
What does Scripture say about the believer, the magistrate and the nations? These articles ask what Romans 13 commands and what it does not, why Moses was never the nations' civil code, what the magistrate is for, and where the text stops when a believer asks what to do under a government he did not choose.
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He Hath Not Dealt So With Any Nation: Why Moses Was Never the Nations' Civil Code
Posted by Edward Cross on
Should a nation take its penal code from Sinai? The law was addressed to one people, its penalties were welded to a covenant and a land, and the selection everybody makes from it is governed by a rule Scripture never supplies. Leave the law whole, learn from it, and put it back where God put it.
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He Hath Not Dealt So With Any Nation: Why Moses Was Never the Nations' Civil Code
Posted by Edward R. Cross on October 4, 2026
Should a nation take its penal code from Sinai? The law was addressed to one people, its penalties were welded to a covenant and a land, and the selection everybody makes from it is governed by a rule Scripture never supplies. Leave the law whole, learn from it, and put it back where God put it.
The Former Days Were Not Better — Nostalgia, the Christian Nation, and the Post You Were Given
Posted by Edward R. Cross on September 1, 2026
Believers ache for a past that was more moral and more Christian, and grieve a covenant they believe the nation broke. But the remembered age never existed as remembered, no Gentile nation was ever in covenant with God, and Scripture rebukes the longing itself. A look at nostalgia, the Christian nation, and the post God actually gave you.
Reviving the Wrong Program: The Campus Revival and the Gospel It Masquerades
Posted by Edward R. Cross on August 12, 2026
A revival is being proclaimed across the nation's campuses — crowds, conversions, and a call to reclaim the nation for God. But the renewal of a nation is not the gospel of grace, a faith with no shared creed is not the faith once delivered, and a summons back to Sinai revives the wrong program. A look at what the campus revival actually revives.
