"Natural Law" and "Two Kingdoms" Antinomianism

The "Two Kingdoms" view holds that God governs the Church through the Bible, and everything else through "natural law.": • There is no such thing as "natural law."; • It is impossible to live life under "natural law."; • "Natural law" gives no direction.

Go to your local Law Library.

Tell the librarian you want to find out if abortion is against "International Law." Ask the librarian, "Can you show me where International Law is kept?" The Librarian will show you.
Next, tell the librarian you want to find out if abortion is against "Federal Law." Ask the librarian, "Can you show me where Federal Law is kept?" The Librarian will show you.
Next, tell the librarian you want to find out if abortion is against "State Law." Ask the librarian, "Can you show me where State Law is kept?" The Librarian will show you.
Next, tell the librarian you want to find out if abortion is against "County Law." Ask the librarian, "Can you show me where County Law is kept?" The Librarian will show you.
Next, tell the librarian you want to find out if abortion is against "Municipal Law." Ask the librarian, "Can you show me where Municipal Law is kept?" The Librarian will show you.
Next, tell the librarian you want to find out if abortion is against "Natural Law." Ask the librarian, "Can you show me where Natural Law is kept?" The Librarian will show you out the door. There are no "natural law" statute books. Ask three experts on "natural law" if abortion is against "natural law," and you will get at least three different opinions. Federal law is "objective." It's written down. "Natural Law" is not and never will be written down. It doesn't exist.

According to "Two Kingdom" proponents of "natural law," human beings are created in the Image of God and instinctively know right from wrong. The Bible, however, says that human beings are fallen, and they suppress this knowledge of right and wrong. So even if everyone knows that abortion is wrong, they're not going to admit it, especially if getting an abortion is more convenient.

The only reason "Two Kingdom" advocates want politicians to govern according to "natural law" rather than Biblical Law is because "Two Kingdom" advocates hate Biblical Law.

Pagan Origins of "Natural Law": History: European -- Natural Law Theory - Gary North

Reformers imported paganism: None Dare Call it Blasphemy - R.J. Rushdoony

Not to be confused with "The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God": No Christian who used this term in 1776 believed in the modern "Two Kingdom" view that the Bible is not a blueprint for statesmen.
Not to be confused with so-called "natural" laws of Physics, which is another word for: Baalism
Insufficiency_of_Scripture - Gordon, T. David: The Bible is a Textbook on Everything; Is the Bible Sufficient? - Koukl, Gregory; Is Natural Revelation Sufficient to Govern Culture? -- Frame, John M.; Teflon Theology -- Gilstrap, Michael

Commentary on Romans, pp. 15, 28, 44–47, 54, 60–62, 211 -- North, Gary

Coming:

Natural Theology and Cosmology	Adams, Paul
Protestants and Natural Law	Braaten, Carl E.
The Revenge of Conscience	Budziszewski, J.
The First Grace: Rediscovering the Natural Law in a Post-Christian World	Budziszewski, J. - First Things (April 2003)
The Second Tablet Project	Budziszewski, J. - First Things (June/July 2002)
Calvin on the Lex Naturalis	Clark, R. S.
Reforming Natural Law	Daryl, Charles J. - A Review of Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics by Stephen J. Grabill
Natural Law and Biblical Law	Helm, Paul
Natural Law and a Nihilistic Culture	Henry, Carl F. H.
Legal Rather than Evangelical Knowledge	Horton, Michael S. - Calvin on the Limits of Natural Theology
Natural Law	Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Nihilism and the End of Law	Johnson, Phillip E.
In Defense of Natural Law	Johnson, Phillip E.
Richard Hooker's Discourse on Natural Law in the Context of the Magisterial Reformation	Kirby, W. J. Torrance
Natural and Divine Law: Reclaiming the Tradition for Christian Ethics	Koterski, Joseph W. - First Things (February 2001)
The Reformers and Natural Law - Luther and Calvin	Lotzer, Robert A.
Natural Law in the Teaching of the Reformers	McNeill, John T. (pdf)
Law of Moses, Law of Nature	Novak, David - First Things (February 1996)
Natural Law in Judaism	Oakes, Edward T.
When Everything is Permitted	Pannenberg, Wolfhart
On Natural Law: Carl F. H. Henry & Critics	Various Authors - Including David F. Wells, Donald G. Bloesch and Others

Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms in the Thought of Herman Bavinck (RAM)
David Van Drunen, Nelson Kloosterman - Calvin Seminary

The Two Kingdoms and Natural Law
John Calvin

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Calvin on Two Kingdoms and Natural Law

Natural Law in the Teaching of the Reformers by John T. McNeill -- PDF

The Reformers and Natural Law -- ed. by Robert A. Lotzer

Common Notions: Reflections on Law, Morality, and Culture -- Blog by Stephen Grabill

Protestants and Natural Law -- by Carl E. Braaten

Returning to Moral First Things: The Natural-Law Tradition and Its Contemporary Application -- by J. Daryl Charles -- DOC

The Christian Ethos by Werner Elert -- PDF

Natural Law/Natural Rights Webpage

"Why Protestants Don't Like Natural Law" by Stephen Grabill

Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics by Stephen Grabill

Calvin on the Lex Naturalis by R. S. Clark -- PDF

Articles by David M. VanDrunen

“Abraham Kuyper and the Reformed Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms Traditions” (forthcoming, Calvin Theological Journal).

"Biblical Theology and the Culture War" in Kerux Online Journal of Biblical Theology

“The Importance of the Penultimate: Reformed Social Thought and the Contemporary Critiques of the Liberal Society, Journal of Markets and Morality 9, no.2 (Fall 2006): 219-249.

“Natural Law in Early Calvinist Resistance Theory” Journal of Law and Religion 21, no. 1 (2005-06): 143-67.

“Medieval Natural Law and the Reformation: A Comparison of Aquinas and Calvin,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 80, no.1 (2006): 77-98.

“The Two Kingdoms: A Reassessment of the Transformationist Calvin,” Calvin Theological Journal 40 (2005): 248-266

“The Context of Natural Law: John Calvin’s Doctrine of the Two Kingdoms” Journal of Church and State 46 (Summer 2004): 503-525

“Natural Law, Custom, and Common Law in the Theology of Aquinas and Calvin,” University of British Columbia Law Review, vol. 33, no. 3 (2000): 699-717.

“The Role of Natural Law in the Westminster Confession and Early Reformed Orthodoxy,” in The Westminster Confession into the 21st Century, vol. 3, ed. J. Ligon Duncan (forthcoming, Mentor).

“Natural Law and the Works Principle Under Adam and Moses,” in The Law is not of Faith: Essays on Works and Grace in the Mosaic Covenant (forthcoming, P&R).

"Natural Law and Christians in the Public Square," in Modern Reformation, March/April Vol. 15 No. 2 2006 Pages 12-15.

"Common Law and the Free Scociety," Religion & Liberty, vol. 9, no. 4 (July and August, 1999).

A Biblical Case for Natural Law by David VanDrunen -- New Book Summarizing A Redemptive Historical Approach to Natural Law

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