Day: July 7, 2013

Finney: God’s Moral Government a Model for Civil Government

I write a lot about civil government, but the basis for civil government is found in the government of God, in how He directs, guides, and controls the universe He has created. Charles Finney demonstrates, in his Systematic Theology, the two very different types of government that exist within God’s creation, distinct because His various creations are distinct: All government is, and must be, either moral or physical. . . . Physical government is control, exercised by a law of… Read more »