The Old Testament Template

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The Old Testament Template

• Port Elizabeth
• 2007

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Eight Domains

• Government
• Church
• Business
• Family
• Education
• Science
• Arts and Entertainment
• Communication

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Four authority institutions

• Individual
• Family
• Government
• Church
• Each has purpose, scope of authority and source
  of authority.

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Five God given values

• Life is sacred
• Words have power
• Material world is good
• Everything needs redemption
• All thinking that moves us away from Gods
  thinking destroys us

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Domains reveal God

• Government-King Justice
• Church-Priest Mercy holiness
• Business-Provider Goodness
• Family-Father Love
• Education-Teacher Knowledge
• Science-Creator Power order
• The Arts- Song of Songs Beauty
• Communication-Word Information

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God reveals Himself

• Creation
• Individual
• Family
• Tribe
• Nation

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GOVERNMENT

• Deuteronomy 1
• The people choose
• Each tribe
• Consensus
• God tells them how Hed like them to be governed
  but they choose.

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Government

• Represent the people
• People choose whom and over what they will be
  governed
• Kings, prophets, people
• Adultery and the death penalty
• Arbitrators of justice
• Delineators of authority
• Separated institutionally from the church

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Government

• Legitimate income is taxes

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