Ideas from the Past
Rhetoric is simply the art of persuasion, an art practiced in legislative assemblies, courts of law, and on public occasions the praise or denunciation of a public figure. The Romans made rhetoric the nucleus of their education system.
Justice means to render unto each his or her just due.
Eternal law is that unchanging law whereby Elohim governs the universe, a law which exist in Elohim and is identical with Elohim’s own nature.
Natural law is the rational creature’s participation of the eternal law.
Human law refers to those particular statutes, enacted by human beings rooted within natural law, that orders human affairs for the common good.
Divine law, which operates in ways parallel to human law, pertains to the statutes contained in Scripture whereby human affairs are ordered to life with Elohim.
*The Greeks pursue virtue, beauty, and perfection in a search for the ideal – the ideal man.
*The Romans were concerned primarily with the pursuit of law and order.
*Roman Christians (such as Lactantius, Tertullian, and Augustine) pictured Yahshua as a God of Law and Order. There concept of divine justice followed the Roman idea that to keep law and order and to deter crime or revolt, one had to increase the punishment to intolerable levels. Thus, as time passed, one could be execute for relatively small crimes. This happens when deterrence takes precedence over justice. The criminal is more quickly discarded through excessive punishments.
*Biblical Law concerns itself with justice, built upon the basic principal that the severity of judgment is always directly proportional to the crime itself. The deterrence factor is always subservient to the establishment of justice, and the criminal is more easily restored through justice.
*In biblical law, justice is not done until full restitution has been made to all the victims of injustice. In Roman law, “justice is not done until the criminal has been punished and others deterred from committing the same type of crime.”
The value of the dollar (money) is regulated by its quantity in relation to the amount of production and real wealth (GDP) which it represents. Too much dollars regulates the value downward, with the result that goods cost more dollars to buy. (Inflation) Too little dollars regulates the value upward and constricts commerce causing recession and depression.
- America is an old Saxon and Danish compound work: Amer means “heavenly,” and the ric means “kingdom”. The means “Gods”, that is, owned by God. That is why THEology is the study of God. In Greek theos means God. The Spanish word for “the” is El, which is the Hebrew word for God. The word United means “greater”. The word State means “estate”. Thus “The United States of America means “God’s greater Estate of the Heavenly Kingdom.”