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The State Cannot Enforce God’s Law

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 11, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 23.

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The State Cannot Enforce God’s Law

The simple fact is that the State can not enforce a law of God. It can not even attempt it without putting itself in the place of God and bringing reproach upon His name. Every attempt to do this has always thus resulted. All the early pagan persecutions, all the medieval persecutions—whether papal or otherwise—resulted from man or men usurping the place of God. The fruits of such attempts are hypocrites, infidels, and the persecution of those who are brave enough to be true.