Argumentative Essay On The Holy Bible

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There has been controversy over several years over The Holy Bible and its use in the public scene. It nevertheless, has developed conflicting arguments and influence in modern day, such as its position with the justice system, school and educational systems, and in many healthcare systems. Politics in the United States attempt to dictate regulations and forms of government in an approach that separates church from state; the government and religious sectors will remain separate and will not influence and/or affect the other. Our founding fathers found it best to do so, considering that many religious affiliations took the opportunity to move to a new land where they can express their own culture, traditions, and belief.
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In other words, these most fundamental of human rights are given by God (“endowed by their Creator”), and the principle of government is to defend those God-given rights, according to the Declaration of Independence upon which the country was founded. The “exclude religion from government” view is wrong when it implies the illegitimacy of statements like these found in the very foundation of our existence as a nation. Using religious reasons to support a secular law is not establishing a religion” (Grudem, 33). Using The Holy Bible to make reference to a claim is said to be of good use; it is when the doctrine of belief gets intermixed with government is when conflicting interest …show more content…

The Bible contains so many references to life that are still relevant to the lives of today. The theocratic image of the Bible is seen in the following claim: “Perhaps the most influential such image in history has been the theocratic image. God has laid down the way in which society ought to be governed; the essential constitution for human society has been written by God. The Mosiac law exemplifies this. Basic norms were explicitly laid down by God: how to deal with homicide, which animals might be eaten, what to do if a corpse was found in the fields. Even if such rules could not be exactly followed within the very different world of Christendom, they continued to support a theocratic image. The Middle Ages struggled with the problem of interest upon loans because “usury” was understood to be directly written by God. And not only the laws, but also the centrality of persons with divine authority- kings, judges, patriarchs- reinforced the theocratic idea. Hence came the establishment of religion, the linkage of church and state, religious sanction for war, and the divine right of kings. Later, some of these connections were weakened: monarchy was challenged, church and state could be separated, but the force of the theocratic paradigm continued; the belief that direct divine instructions for state and politics exist enshrined in the Bible lingers on” (Marini & Stephen et al). The idea of the separation of

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