The Perfect Law of Liberty
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass [mirror, NASB]: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. (James 1:22-25)1
The law of Yahweh2 is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of Yahweh is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of Yahweh are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of Yahweh is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of Yahweh are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. (Psalm 19:7-11)
That anyone, let alone someone claiming to be a Christian,3 would discard the Bible’s perfect law of liberty (that provides all of the above and more) for even man’s best attempt at government is symptomatic of moral bankruptcy:
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. (Isaiah 5:20)
Man left to himself to develop his own fickle finite law code flounders about in darkness.
The Declaration Speaks for Itself
Paragraph #2, Sentences 6–7
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
As we continue to biblically examine the twenty-seven Facts (grievances), take note again how many of these same abuses can be leveled at both the Declaration’s signatories and the Constitution’s framers.
Grievance #13
He [Britain’s King George III] has combined with others [member’s of England’s Parliament] to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation.
The operative word in this grievance is “our”: our constitution and our laws.
That the Declaration’s signatories had no intentions to establish a government of, by, and for God based upon His moral law (unlike those in early 1600s America) is evident in this one word “our.” The American colonials were not upset with King George for forcing his jurisdiction and edicts on them because they were contrary to Yahweh’s jurisdiction and laws. They were angry because the government George had forced upon them was contrary to their own constitution and laws. It was their own assumed sovereignty and alleged laws that they were so protective of. The same is true for the constitutional framers eleven years later.
Consequently, both the colonials’ constitutions at the time of the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution are just as aptly depicted as “Acts of pretended Legislation” as were Great Britain’s bogus laws. The same is true for any government decree today not in harmony with the Lawgiver’s law. The list of such edicts is endless thanks to the fact that neither the Declaration nor the Constitution recognized Yahweh as the sole lawgiver, per Isaiah 33:22 and James 4:12. Neither do today’s constitutional Christians!
Void of Biblical Emphasis
Had the Declaration’s signatories been concerned with violations egregious to their God and Creator, they would have made this clear from the onset and throughout the entire Declaration of Independence.
If your paradigm is God, His Word, and His law everyone will know it. If you are a subject and ambassador of the King of kings, your objective to bring Yahweh the glory due Him, to advance His kingdom here on earth as is in heaven, and to honor Christ as Savior of the remnant, will be apparent in nearly everything you say and do:
[W]hatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31)
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him…. And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men. (Colossians 3:17, 23)
This cannot be said of either the Declaration’s signatories or the Constitution’s framers.
Keeping in mind that anti-Christ Thomas Jefferson’s generic god and creator is not the God of the Bible,4 there’s nothing in either document that leads one to believe that the Declaration’s signatories’ objective was to promote Yahweh as America’s Sovereign and thus His Kingdom and His laws as paramount over King George’s, their own, or any other finite government.
That objective has to be wished into the Declaration and the Constitution in the futile hope of somehow christening both documents as biblical. However, such wishful thinking amounts to self-delusion and only helps to foist the same deception upon others, including one’s own posterity. This, in turn, only further secures their manacles, first forged by the Declaration’s signatories and the Constitution’s framers:
Loose yourself from the chains around your neck, O captive daughter of Zion. (Isaiah 52:2, NASB)
Is this not the fast which I choose, To loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and break every yoke? (Isaiah 58:6, NASB)
Grievances #13 & 14
He [Britain’s King George III] has combined with others [members of England’s Parliament] to subject us to … their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.
The Quartering Act passed by Britain’s Parliament in 1774 is addressed in Part 13.
In Time of War
The constitutional framers addressed this in Amendments 3 and 4:
Amendment 3: No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Amendment 4: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Although perhaps not immediately apparent, what’s found in Amendments 3 and 45 is already provided for by biblical case law in Deuteronomy 24:
When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. Thou shalt stand abroad [remain outside, NASB], and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee. (Deuteronomy 24:10-11)
Even a man who has a lawful claim to another man’s pledge is not permitted to trespass another man’s home. In 1763, Sir William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, England, wrote what might be considered an applied commentary of Deuteronomy 24:10-11:
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail—its roof may shake—the wind may blow through it—the storm may enter—the rain may enter—but the King of England cannot enter!—all his force dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.6
Amendment 3 provides for the quartering of soldiers “in time of war” as “prescribed by [United States government] law,” whereas Yahweh’s law makes no such provision. Under biblical law, a man’s home belongs to him, not the government. He has final say over who may or may not enter. Homeowners (unless they are known criminals7) are protected from all uninvited visitors, even during times of war.
Making matters much worse, under constitutional law, the United States government is no longer obligated to honor its “guarantee” in Amendment 3 because it has since appropriated all private property via eminent domain, property taxes, and public lands by way of Amendment 5’s provision for government confiscation of private property.8 Every square inch of America is now allegedly owned by both state and federal governments. The Constitutional Republic is consequently the de facto owner of all property in America and, as such, does what it pleases with what it fraudulently claims belongs to it.
Grievances #13 & 15
He [Britain’s King George III] has combined with others [members of England’s Parliament] to subject us to … their Acts of pretended Legislation: … For protecting them, by mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they [King George’s armed troops, cited in Grievance #14] should commit on the Inhabitants of these States.
The American colonials were completely justified in this grievance leveled against King George. No one can dispute this!
Mock Justice & Murder
Nevertheless, because this accusation was not framed from a biblical paradigm, based upon the Bible’s perfect law of liberty, and then enacted by the Constitution’s framers, mock justice and murder, particularly of the unborn, are the rule of the day under the government that replaced King George’s government here in America.
Talk about spurious justice when society’s most vulnerable cannot find protection in the Constitutional Republic’s alleged justice system.9 Instead, their murders at the hand of a bunch of butchers has been legalized and financed by the same government.
Sins of Commission & Sins of Omission
This would have never occurred had the framers established, and their successors maintained, a biblical government based upon God’s law,10 including Exodus 20:13, 21:22-23, and Deuteronomy 27:25. Had they done so, no one would have ever heard of Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood wouldn’t exist, and millions of infants slaughtered in their mothers’ wombs financed by the Constitutional Republic would have lived to see the light of day.
Someone is likely to respond that what’s now true regarding government-financed in utero infanticide (aka abortion) was not the intention of the Constitution’s framers. It doesn’t matter! Their sins were of both commission and omission. The framers’ sins of commission are evidenced in that there’s hardly an Article or Amendment that’s not antithetical, if not seditious, to Yahweh’s sovereignty and morality.11
Their sins of commission aside, the framers’ sins of omission—that is, their failure to establish government and society based upon Yahweh’s commandments, statutes, and judgments—alone sent America to the precipice of moral depravity and destruction she presently teeters on.
Ask the millions of infants slaughtered in their mothers’ wombs if the constitutional framers’ failure to establish government on Exodus 21:22-23 and Deuteronomy 27:25 didn’t lead to their annihilation?
There’s not one national problem in America today—government-financed in utero infanticide,12 sodomite “marriages,”13 Synagogues, Mosques, and Temples devoted to false gods dotting America’s landscape,14 America’s crumbling economy, runaway debt, and taxes on nearly everything,15 etc.—that cannot be traced back to the framers’ sins of omission.
Mock justice, murder, and everything abominable in America today—all because the Declaration’s signatories and the Constitution’s framers were no more working from a biblical paradigm than was King George and his British henchmen.
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. (Jeremiah 2:13)
See Part 15.
Related posts:
“Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence” (Audio series)
“Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence, Pts. 1-12” (Articles)
Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant
A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government
Ecclesia vs. Church: Why Understanding the Difference is Critical to Our Future
Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective
End Notes
1. All scripture is quoted from the King James Version unless otherwise noted.
2. YHWH, the English transliteration of the Tetragrammaton, is most often pronounced Yahweh. It is the principal Hebrew name of the God of the Bible and was inspired to appear nearly 7,000 times in the Old Testament. It was unlawfully deleted by the English translators. In obedience to the Third Commandment and the scriptures that charge us to proclaim, swear by, praise, extol, call upon, bless, glorify, and hold fast to His name, I have chosen to memorialize His name, per Exodus 3:15, in this article.
For a more thorough explanation concerning important reasons for using the sacred name of God, see Thou shalt not take the name of YHWH thy God in vain, the third in a series of ten free online books on each of the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments.
3. Not everyone claiming to be a Christian has been properly instructed in the biblical plan of salvation. Mark 16:15-16; Acts 2:36-41, 22:1-16; Romans 6:3-4; Galatians 3:26-27; Colossians 2:11-13; and 1 Peter 3:21 should be studied to understand what is required to be covered by the blood of Jesus and forgiven of your sins.
For a more thorough explanation concerning water immersion and its relationship to salvation, the bookBaptism: All You Wanted to Know and More may be requested from Bible Law vs. The United States Constitution, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363, for free.
Additionally, listen to audio series “I Had a Dream: Judgment’s Coming. Are You Under the Blood?” Part 1 can be found here. Or a MP3 CD, containing all ten messages, can be requested from Bible Law vs. The United States Constitution, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363, for free.
5. Chapter 13 “Amendments 3 & 4: Constitutional vs. Biblical Privacy” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.
6. Sir William Pitt, quoted in Clive Bigham, The Prime Ministers of Britain, 1721-1921 (Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 1924) p. 83
7. Chapter 13 “Amendments 3 & 4: Constitutional vs. Biblical Privacy” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.
8. Chapter 14 “Amendment 5: Constitutional vs. Biblical Judicial Protection” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.
9. Chapter 6 “Article 3: Judicial Usurpation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.
10. For more on how the Bible’s triune and integral moral law (the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments) applies and should be implemented today as the law of the land, see Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant.
Also A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government.
11. See Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective, in which every Article and Amendment is examined by the Bible.
12. Thou shalt not kill, the sixth in a series of ten online books on each of the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments.
13. Thou shalt not commit adultery, the seventh in a series of ten online books on each of the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments.
14. Thou shalt have no other gods before me, the first in a series of ten online books on each of the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments.
Also Chapter 11 “Amendment 1: Government-Sanctioned Polytheism” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.
15. Thou shalt not steal, the eighth in a series of ten online books on each of the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments. Also Chapter 25 “Amendment 16: Graduated Income Tax vs. Flat Increase Tax” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective