Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Thursday, October 01, 2009 5:28:26 PM
‘One of the best things about this country is the basic principle that everyone is equal under the law.’ Guy Benson
Lex Rex, the law is king, was a revolutionary concept in the 17th century. The children of the Protestant Reformation formulated the idea that all men, even the king was subject to law, meaning the Law of God.
This principle was resisted by the aristocratic hierarchy and provoked persecution from a corrupt church and state. Colonial America with its Reformation base adopted this principle and saw it codified in the highest law of the land.
Lex Rex was based on the reality that the self-revealed God of the Bible had spoken truth in the area of morality. It is no surprise that those who hold to a different reality based on an impersonal beginning, void of design or purpose will also hold to the arbitrary in morality.
In this view of reality there is no place for moral guilt and accountability for sin. The elites return to their kingship over the law as the culture moves away from Biblical authority. The drift toward the principle of Rex Lex, the king is law, marks the return to tyranny.