The politics of God, like human politics is his way of governing us and urging us to follow their laws.
The fundamental laws of God are the Ten Commandments.
And the First Commandment forbids his people from being slaves of earthly governments.
The reason for this is simple. God only refers to his people in the form of agreements and contracts of all covenants are binding on both parties. And the purpose of all contracts to provide benefits to each party. And the contracts can only be made between people who are free to provide benefits to the other party to the contract. Enslaved people are not free to contract.
God, like everyone else in politics, should make offers to attract people to live under its law and governance. He frees people in the first commandment and therefore can not force anyone into a pact with him. Like human politicians can not force anyone to vote for their government.
And God and humans competing politicians and the promise of extravagant benefits to become the governor of the people.
They agreed that Joseph had saved from starvation by the confiscation of their land for Pharaoh and allowing them the privilege of living as tenants pay taxes on land formerly owned ...
You have saved his life, he told Joseph.
We are very grateful to you that we can be slaves to Pharaoh.
(Genesis 47:25)
And the Israelites industrious seemed to thrive until the king became jealous and fearful of their influence and ruthlessly tried to push ...
The Egyptians, therefore, feared that the Israelites were reduced to slavery cruel.
(Exodus12-13)
This is where God is the political and human rights is part of politics.
Earthly governments offer privileges may be revoked at the whim and discretion of granting the privilege.
In a contract, both parties are duty shall not revocable privileges promised by each party to the other.
And in every covenant with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden to your local bank on the corner, there is a penalty clause for breach of promise.
You local banker let you keep your house or your car while you make your monthly payments to the bank as you agree to a contract.
But if you stop making those payments, the penalty clause is activated and the bank take your car or house and all the benefits they provide these things. The banker, by contract can not take your property away from a mere whim.
God offers lavish benefits, contract and must provide and allow its people to maintain, unless you default on its promise to be faithful to his law, and promised ...
We will do what the Lord has told us.
(Exodus 24:3)
It is only for breach of his word which cause God is faithful to his contract and take action to enforce the penalty clause.
Pledged allegiance to the privileges of human politics does not guarantee that human government will continue to grant these privileges.
Politicians offer benefits elections and extravagant sweep without knowing much about exactly how they will "create jobs" or put "a chicken in every pot."
And they're after assuming office with all its commitments and pressures previously unknown can not grant these privileges ... at least not to the extent promised.
And so the human political, often has to backtrack on his campaign promises, because they need the help of others to fulfill their promises. And the other politicians can not be committed to the promises made.
God as creator, knows exactly what I can promise and deliver and deliver, if the people do not default on his faithfulness to his promise to keep His commandments.
He does not need anyone's help or approval to provide the benefits of their own creation to his chosen people.
Therefore, when the politics of God try to govern his people with the benefits it creates and grants them, tell the truth and offers to back up to a contract agrees to deliver.
When politicians make promises human, no matter how sincerely they have little control over the creation of the benefits promised to grant.
And this is how the politics of God differ from the policy of the pharaohs, ancient and modern.
But is not it ironic that many people have full faith in human political benefits, "but promised to find freedom under the law of God and that its benefits are expensive and unreliable ...
Why get us out of Egypt?
Did not I say in Egypt, when we said
"Leave us alone. Let us serve the Egyptians'?
Much better for us than the slaves of the Egyptians
to die in the desert.
(Exodus 14:11-12)
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Thomas Drummond, Ph.D. trained in clinical development, and neuropsychology. He has worked with the problems of clergy and religious of the Catholic Church for over 20 years. Most of his problems stemmed from the unfulfilled promises of God's law. They tried to evade the law of God through the definition of ministry in ways that were offenses against the law.
