TylerRay
Puritan Board Graduate
Jason,Thank you for trying to help me understand!
That said, am I seeing the correct post you referenced? I see the WM standards... Al I see there is that the divines as well say punish heretics (but I say, first: was death an option and second: even if they said that it doesnt/shouldnt go beyond what is written in that this is NOT a Theocracy, that the Kingdom is not of this earth, that vengeance is the Lords...)
I think you would do well to make a study of the classical Reformed doctrine of the civil magistrate. The issue is what is called the Establishment Principle, or the principle of the Establishment of Religion (note that this is the language used in the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution--"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." They were consciously contradicting what most Christians in the world had accepted as true).