Natural Law: the Essentials of National Constitutions

PRAY WITH US about natural law: the essentials: Father God, we thank You for the Word, through whom You created all things. And we thank You for the way You created all things, in Your natural order with natural laws. But our own human nature has fallen and we are reaping the natural consequences of our fall. Yet You have sent Your Son to take all those consequences and to show us how to live in this fallen world.

So help us to make constitutions and laws that follow Your Word and Your natural laws. We thank You that many nations, including the US and Belize, have made many great efforts to do so. Preserve what is godly and help us amend what is ungodly. Forgive us when we fall short of what is godly. And rebuke us when we call good evil and evil good. Lead us not into such temptations but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. In Jesus’ name, amen.

PRAYER ALERT—Natural Law: the Essentials of National Constitutions

Contemporary constitutions have followed the US model since the year 1789. But the US Constitution itself derived from the Declaration of Independence and, in turn, from the Bible.

The Declaration states that these truths are “self-evident”: that the Creator created all men equal. That He endowed them with inalienable rights. And that governments derive “their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

All people know we have a Creator according to Romans 1:19-21. Since creation people have known the Creator’s “evident” attributes through what He has made. Therefore, “they are without excuse.” What God has made we call nature. Nature, including fallen human nature, operates according to natural laws. Common sense along with our God-given consciences allow us to recognize natural laws…

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