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Questions about Biblical justice in economics
Questions about civil government formation, powers, and limits
- What does Luke 3:13 teach us about legitimate taxation?
- Do the gleaning laws allow civil government to coerce individuals or businesses to give up wealth or other private property?
- Does Biblical law guarantee "free speech"?
- Does Biblical law have "statutes of limitation" for prosecuting crime?
- Does Biblical law require you to get civil government permission, or a license, before getting married?
- Does the divorce of the foreign women in Ezra 9-10 show that civil government has authority to dissolve marriages or preside over "divorce trials"?
- How does Biblical law create the strongest possible "Rule of Law"?
- What are some major differences between advocates of "Westminster General Equity" and "Strict General Equity"?
- What is Paul saying about civil government in Romans 13?
- What is a Biblical law jurisdiction, and how is this concept derived from scripture?
Questions about differing scripture interpretations
Questions about Jesus' teaching on the law
- Did Jesus break Biblical law by working on the Sabbath?
- Did Jesus really support the death penalty for cursing a parent?
- Did Jesus revoke the "eye for an eye" principle of Biblical law?
- Didn't Jesus disregard the law of the Hebrew Scriptures when dealing with the woman taken in adultery? (John 8:3-11)
- Didn't Jesus say that the kingdom of God is only "within us"?
- How did Jesus "fulfill" the Law? (Matt. 5:17-19)
- In what way was Jesus' command in John 13:34 "new"?
- Is the polygyny of the Old Covenant allowed in the New Covenant age?
Questions about judicial procedure and due process
Questions about lawful and unlawful use of force
Questions about marriage and family
- Are wives and daughters allowed to own property under Biblical law?
- Can a husband and wife have equal authority in a marriage?
- Didn't the law under the Sinai Covenant allow divorce for any cause?
- Do ancestors have ruling authority over their descendants?
- Does Biblical law really allow a father to sell his daughter into slavery?
- Does Biblical law require a girl to marry her rapist?
- Does Biblical law require you to get civil government permission, or a license, before getting married?
- Does Deuteronomy 22:25-29 imply that the rape of an unbetrothed girl is not a death penalty offense?
- Does Joseph's intent to divorce Mary show that the death penalty for adultery was not mandatory?
- Does the divorce of the foreign women in Ezra 9-10 show that civil government has authority to dissolve marriages or preside over "divorce trials"?
- If a husband or wife is the only one to witness their spouse's death, can they lawfully remarry?
- Is Biblical law deficient, because it does not specify a minimum age for marriage?
- Is the abandonment by a non-believer in 1 Cor. 7:15 an example of marriage covenant-breaking sin?
- Is the polygyny of the Old Covenant allowed in the New Covenant age?
- Is the premarital unchastity case of Deut. 22:13 an example of the justice system assuming guilt until a defendant proves her innocence?
- What was the purpose of the Numbers 5 dusty(or "bitter") water test?
Questions about Paul's teaching on the law
Questions about penalties and restitution
- Does Biblical law actually require burning to death for certain crimes?
- Does Biblical law require a girl to marry her rapist?
- Does Biblical law require a literal "eye for an eye"?
- Does Deuteronomy 22:25-29 imply that the rape of an unbetrothed girl is not a death penalty offense?
- Does Joseph's intent to divorce Mary show that the death penalty for adultery was not mandatory?
- Does Numbers 35:31 imply that all crimes except murder can be ransomed?
- Does the Biblical divorce law in Deut. 24:1 show that the death penalty for adultery was not mandatory?
- Does the proverb about the jealous husband show that prostitution is legal? (Prov. 6:32-35)
- Does the restitution payment for killing a slave in Exod. 21:32 show that slaves had less protection than free persons under Biblical Law?
- Don't the actions of certain Israelite kings show that death was only a maximum civil penalty?
- How do we know whether a Biblical law death penalty is mandatory?
- What are some major differences between advocates of "Westminster General Equity" and "Strict General Equity"?
- What is the proper restitution amount for theft?
- Why did God require the death penalty for certain crimes?
- Why is false prophecy a death penalty crime?
- Why wasn't King David executed for his adultery with Bathsheba?
Questions about property rights and stewardship
- Are wives and daughters allowed to own property under Biblical law?
- Are you allowed to use deadly force in defense of (mere) property?
- Do the gleaning laws allow civil government to coerce individuals or businesses to give up wealth or other private property?
- Does Biblical law allow you to own a number?
- How are property rights established under Biblical law?
- How would roads and speed limits work in a jurisdiction following Biblical law?
Questions about the differences in law between the covenants
Questions about the differing treatment of persons in Biblical law
- Does Biblical law really allow a father to sell his daughter into slavery?
- Does Exodus 12:43-49 mean that a stranger in the land must become a covenant member before he or she can be treated equally under the law?
- Does the law in Exodus 21:22-25, where men cause an unborn child to be born prematurely, show that abortion is not murder?
- Does the restitution payment for killing a slave in Exod. 21:32 show that slaves had less protection than free persons under Biblical Law?
- Doesn't Lev. 27:6 show that God places no value on the lives of unborn children?
- Is the premarital unchastity case of Deut. 22:13 an example of the justice system assuming guilt until a defendant proves her innocence?
Questions about the general applicability or relevance of God's law
Questions about the historical application of Biblical law
- Does Joseph's intent to divorce Mary show that the death penalty for adultery was not mandatory?
- Does the divorce of the foreign women in Ezra 9-10 show that civil government has authority to dissolve marriages or preside over "divorce trials"?
- Was God's law available prior to Sinai?
- Why didn't King Solomon punish the prostitutes who came to him for justice?
- Why wasn't King David executed for his adultery with Bathsheba?
- Why wasn't Paul executed for either murder or kidnapping?
Questions about the organization and character of Biblical law
Questions about the relationship of the church (Christian assembly) and civil government
- Isn't living under a "religiously tolerant" civil government better for evangelism than living under a government which enforces God's law (e.g. against idolaters)?
- Shouldn't there be a separation of church (i.e., religion) and state?
- What did Thomas Jefferson mean by "separation of church and state"?
Questions about various individual laws
Questions about witnesses and evidence
- Can anything be done when there is only one witness to a crime?
- Can security camera or other video evidence count as a witness in Biblical law?
- Didn't Jesus disregard the law of the Hebrew Scriptures when dealing with the woman taken in adultery? (John 8:3-11)
- Does the stoning of the blasphemer in Leviticus 24 show that merely hearing can make someone a probative witness?
- Is the crime of rape an exception to the "two witnesses" rule?
- What if DNA or other indirect evidence point to a person being guilty, but there are no probative witnesses?
- What is the penalty for falsely confessing to a crime?
- What was the purpose of the Numbers 5 dusty(or "bitter") water test?
Questions comparing Biblical law to other legal systems
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