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Wed 02/06/08 04:08 PM
Much sympathy to the victim. Tragically, these kinds of incidents are all too common today. I can remember during Navy training one of my instructors broke into tears giving us young sailors a talk about drunk driving. A drunk driver killed his first wife and their children. He since remarried but his words still echo to me almost ten years later. He said "If your gonna drive drunk, just don't do it while my family is on the road."

The man made laws this country currently uses to "fix" many reoccurring problems with evil people, including drunk driving, are useless and ineffective. God, in His word, gives us what He describes as His perfect law. The faithful who are reading this: do you believe that statement found in the Bible? That His law is perfect?

His law for evil, negligent people who would get behind the wheel and murder/ maim innocents is lex talionis. Lex talionis is the law of retribution, better known as "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth". It's found as case law in Scripture, and covers a vast multitude of cases. It's fair and it's just. After wicked people like these drunk drivers have done to them what they do to their victims, the crimes/murders they commit won't be so common. We're getting to a time in history again where believers need to start waking up and realizing unless we push for change and start doing things Gods' way corrupt lawmakers, judges, lawyers, etc. are going to continue perverting justice.

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Mon 12/10/07 10:22 AM
Proverbs 26:4~5:

"Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes."

"If we are to understand how to answer the fool, if we are to be able to demonstrate that God has made the pseudo-wisdom of the world foolish, then we must first study the biblical conception of the fool and his foolishness. In scriptural perspective the fool is not basically a shallow-minded or illiterate ignoramus; he can be quite educated and sophisticated in social reckoning. However, he is a fool because he has forsaken the source of true wisdom in God in order to rely on his own (allegedly), self-sufficient, intellectual powers. He is unteachable (Prov. 10:8) and despises instruction (Prov. 15:5); whereas the wise man heeds council given to him, 'The way of a fool is right in his own eyes' (Prov. 12:15). The fool has utter self-confidence and imagines himself to be intellectually autonomous. 'He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool' (Prov. 28:26). A fool cannot think of himself as mistaken (Prov. 17:10). He judges matters according to his own pre-established standards of truth and right, and thus his own thoughts always turn out in the long run to be correct. The fool is sure that he can rely on his own rational authority and intellectual scrutiny. 'The fool beareth himself insolently and is confident' (Prov. 14:16), and therefore he utters his own mind (Prov. 29:11). In actuality, this autonomous man [. . .and woman especially in this thread and ones like it] is dull, stubborn, boorish, obstinate and stupid. He professes himself to be wise, but from the opening of his mouth it is clear that he is (in the biblical sense) 'a fool' - his only wisdom would consist in keeping silent (Prov. 17:28). 'The heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness' (Prov. 12:23), and the fool flaunts his folly (Prov. 13:16). He eats up folly unreflectingly (Prov. 15:14), pours it out (Prov. 15:2), and returns to it like a dog to his vomit (Prov. 26:11). He is so in love with his folly and so dedicated to its preservation that 'It is better for a man to meet a bear robbed of her whelps, than a fool is his folly' (Prov. 17:12). The fool does not want to find the truth; he only wants to be self-justified in his own imaginations. While he may feign objectivity, 'A fool hath no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may reveal itself' (Prov. 18:2). He is committed to his own presuppositions and wishes to guard his autonomy. Thus he will not depart from evil (Prov. 13:19), and thus all his knowledgeable talk reveals nothing but perverse and lying lips (Prov. 10:18; 19:1). He may talk proudly, but "A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare of his soul' (Prov. 18:7). He shall not endure the judgment of God (Ps. 5:5)." (Greg Bahnsen, Always Ready, pp. 55-56)