Thirty years ago I put together "95 Theses on the State," in homage to Luther's 95 Theses on Justification. I went through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and pulled out 95 key concepts that relate to the issue of politics, law, economics and government.
I recently heard about Ron Paul's efforts to create a home school curriculum. I haven't studied it thoroughly, but it appears to be very light on the Bible. (That is, I searched the whole site for the word "Bible" and got zero hits.) This inspired me to think about a Bible-based home school curriculum.
I have copied below a section from this page which contains an outline of my "95 Theses on the State." It is found on the left-hand side. On the right-hand side are hints at how each Thesis can be used as the foundation for other academic subjects which might be covered in a home school curriculum. This is very sketchy at this point.
I have variously entitled these Theses "95 Theses on the State," "95 Theses on Patriarchy," and here I have substituted "Anarcho-Theocracy" for "Patriarchy" except in those instances where there is a specific reference to the institution of "The Family" vs. Church or State.
The whole Bible teaches Christian Anarchism. From cover to cover. Most Christians are familiar with only a few passages in the Bible, those on "salvation," or maybe a few passages on "the rapture" or "the second coming." Most Christians have never read the history of the rise of the State or the idolatry and infanticide of the kings, and the Prophets who so thoroughly denounced them.
All human beings are created in families. Patriarchy is an inescapable concept. If the Christian pater does not train his family in the Ways of Peace, he will be oppressed by a “paternalistic” State. The Family is the basic social unit of a prosperous society.
Obedience through the Family eliminates tyranny, protects property.
The Institution called "The State" is unBiblical. It reflects rebellion against God's Law.
The whole history of man as recorded in the Bible is the history of sinful rebellion against society as created in the Garden of Eden, and the construction of institutions based on Humanistic power: coercion and violence. It is the history of Politics vs. Patriarchy.
| • View | Welcome to “The 95 Days of Christmas” | |
| • View | The Importance of Luther's 95 Theses | In his book on how the Roman Catholic Church created Western Civilization, Tom Woods overstates the role of the Church and understates the role of the Bible in the creation of Western Civilization. The link at left cites John Robbins, who overstates the role of Luther and the Protestant Reformation in the creation of Western Civilization. Western Civilization is Biblical Civilization |
| • View | The Origin of These 95 Theses | |
| • View | Introduction: Taking the Bible Seriously | The Bible sets itself before us as a revelation from God. The authors of the books of the Bible make this claim. This claim is either true, or the Bible is evil. The claim cannot be ignored. The Bible is the most important book in the history of the human race. No other book has had more influence. A secular (Bible-denying or Bible-ignoring) education is irresponsible. Christians would agree that some people have made praiseworthy cultural advances motivated by the Koran, but we would say that these advances were either incidental or epistemologically inconsistent with the Koran. Many praiseworthy advances have been made by people motivated by the Bible, but if the Bible is fundamentally a hoax, then the amount of evil (and missed opportunities) caused by the Bible greatly outweighs these inconsistent advances. More on the Bible. |
| • View | Thesis 1: Christ the Word | Jesus claimed to be God. The Jews of His day wanted Him put to death for saying this. The incarnation of God is either a lie or the most important event in the history of the human race. |
| • View | Thesis 2: Christ the Creator | |
| • View | Thesis 3: Creation, not Evolution | Why teach the laws of physics, or the laws of chemistry, if the universe is really a random, constantly-evolving multiverse? |
| • View | Thesis 4: Omniscience, Predestination, and Providence | |
| • View | Thesis 5: “Self-Evident Truths” | Deep down, everyone knows the Bible (also called "The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God") is true. |
| • Patriarchy and "Government" | The Bible describes The State as the invention of demonic men. Men who are not loyal to God's Institution of the Family tend to form States, or else become hippies and nomads. |
| • Patriarchy and "Paternalism" | |
| • View | Thesis 12: The Fall Of The Angels | |
| • View | Thesis 13: The Fall of Man | |
| • View | Thesis 14: The Purpose of Cain’s “Suspended Sentence" | |
| • The Patriarchal Power of Capital Punishment | |
| • The Mark of Cain | |
| • View | Thesis 15: Cain’s City: The Autonomy of the State | |
| • Raising Cain | |
| • Why Cain Was Not Executed for Murder | |
| • View | Thesis 16: The Demonic Roots of Violent Tyranny | |
| • "The Sons of God and the Daughters of Men" |
| • Elders as Judges | |
| • View | Thesis 17: The Post-Flood Absence of The Institutional Church | |
| • View | Thesis 18: The Patriarchal Power Of “Capital Punishment.” | |
| • View | Thesis 19: Nimrod: The First Politician (Post-Flood) | |
| • Nimrod: The First Politician | |
| • View | Thesis 20: Patriarchy vs. Political Slavery | |
| • Nimrod: "Hunter of Men" | |
| • View | Thesis 21: Demonic Activity At Babel | |
| • View | Thesis 22: The Division of The Nations | |
| • Babel and "The Religion of Humanity" | |
| • The Dispersed Nations of "The Family of Man" | |
| • View | Thesis 23: Evangelism In The Old Covenant | |
| • View | Thesis 24: Patriarchy, “National Defense,” And Military Socialism | |
| • View | Thesis 25: Anarcho-Theocracy and “Sacraments”: Circumcision | |
| • View | Thesis 27: Patriarchy, Precious Metals, and Money | |
| • View | Thesis 26: The Myth of The “Separation Of Church And State” | |
| • View | Thesis 28: Salvation is Political |
| • Pharaohs and Pyramids | |
| • View | Thesis 29: Patriarchy and Resistance to Tyranny in the Early Days of the Old Testament | |
| • View | Thesis 30: As With All Angelic Activity, No State Action Is Coincidental or Random | |
| • View | Thesis 31: Ceremony, Ritual, Liturgy, And The “Pedagogical Law” | |
| • View | Thesis 32: Patriarchy and “Sacraments”: Passover | |
| • View | Thesis 33: Patriarchs And “Elders” | These "95 Theses" reject the modern notion of "the Separation of Church and State." Instead, they promote the abolition of Church and State. Under Moses, a temporary institution of priesthood and temple was formed, but it was intended to be abolished with the Advent of the Messiah |
| • Patriarchs as "Elders" | |
| • View | Thesis 34: The Need for a Pedagogical Legal Structure | |
| • View | Thesis 35: Angels And The Pedagogical Legal Structure | |
| • View | Thesis 36: The Promised Land | One of the thorniest issues of foreign policy is the nation of Israel. No homeschool student is equipped to deal effectively with this issue without a knowledge of the Bible. |
| • View | Thesis 37: The Temporary Character of The First “Church Officers” | |
| • View | Thesis 38: Anarcho-Theocracy and the Temple | |
| • View | Thesis 39: Patriarchy and Education | |
| • View | Thesis 40: Anarcho-Theocracy and Oaths |
| • View | Thesis 41: The Character of “gods” | |
| • Judges, Judgment, and Anarchy | |
| • View | Thesis 42: National Security Without a State | |
| • Patriarchy and "National Security" | |
| • View | Thesis 43: The Prohibition of Monarchism | |
| • 1 Samuel 8: The State as Rejection of God | |
| • 1 Samuel 8 and Monarchy by Thomas Paine | |
| • View | Thesis 44: The State as the Answer to the Prayers of Rebels | |
| • View | Thesis 45: The Inferiority of Old Covenant Typological Mediators |
| • God Sends EVIL ! | This section of Theses proves that God "ordained" the State, because God "ordains" all evil. The State is evil. This is one of the most important issues facing the Human Race. Annihilation of billions of human beings is the cost of getting it wrong. See also: www.Romans13.com |
| • Angels and God's Throne of Government | |
| • Stars and Idolatry | |
| • View | Thesis 46: Romans 8:28 and The State | |
| • View | Thesis 47: God’s Sovereign Ordering of Every State | |
| • View | Thesis 48: The State Serves God by Sinning | |
| • View | Thesis 49: The State As Sanctified “Servant”/ “Deacon”/”Minister” | |
| • View | Thesis 50: The State Does Not Serve God Self-Consciously | |
| • View | Thesis 51: Only One King Self-Consciously Serves God | |
| • View | Thesis 52: Judgment of the State in Heaven and Earth | |
| • View | Thesis 53: Moloch-Worship and the Nature of Idols | |
| • View | Thesis 54: War, Capital Punishment, and “The Sword” | |
| • View | Thesis 55: The Throne of David | |
| • The Power of the Sword | |
| • "In the Name of the Law" |
| • View | Thesis 56: Statism At The Time Of Christ | |
| • View | Thesis 57: Kingship, Citizenship, and The Gospel | |
| • View | Thesis 58: The Civil Authority of The Pastor: Christ The Shepherd | Like Melchizedek, the priest-king of Jerusalem, Jesus The Messiah is the integration of Church and State, Priest and King |
| • View | Thesis 59: Jewish Opposition To The Kingdom | |
| • View | Thesis 60: Christ’s Binding of Satan | |
| • View | Thesis 61: True Power vs. Political Power | |
| • View | Thesis 62: Agrarianism As Environmentalism | To question the Industrial Revolution is not to adopt the errors of the "Green" or "environmentalist" movement. |
| • View | Thesis 63: Christ’s Ascension to the Throne of David | |
| • View | Thesis 64: The Camaraderie of “Church” And State | |
| • View | Thesis 65: Fox News and the Coming of the Kingdom | |
| • View | Thesis 66: The Anointed King vs. Political Kings | |
| • View | Thesis 67: Jesus The Nazarene | |
| • Why the State Encourages Immorality | |
| • "Unlucky 13": Isaiah 13, Romans 13, Revelation 13 | |
| • A Romans-Eye View of Romans 13 | |
| • "Principalities and Powers" | |
| • Lakes of Fire in "Smoke-filled Rooms" | |
| • Romans 13: The Burden is on the Archists | |
| • Taxation, Representation, and the Myth of the State | |
| • Why the State is not a "Divine Institution" |
| • View | Thesis 68: Extremism vs. Neutrality | |
| • View | Thesis 69: Sons of God and Pedagogues | |
| • View | Thesis 70: Judgment and the Church-Courts of Christ | |
| • View | Thesis 71: The Apostolic Church and the Spread of Power | |
| • View | Thesis 72: Patriarchy and the House-Church | |
| • View | Thesis 73: Patriarchy and the “Sacraments”: Baptism | |
| • View | Thesis 74: Patriarchy and the “Sacraments”: “The Lord’s Supper” | |
| • View | Thesis 75: Self-Ordination | |
| • View | Thesis 76: Salt and Statism | |
| • View | Thesis 77: Political Authority and Kingdom Citizenship | |
| • View | Thesis 78: Anarcho-Theocracy and Resistance to Tyranny in the Last Days of the Old Covenant | |
| • View | Thesis 79: Taxation, Kingdom Citizenship, and Overcoming Through Suffering | |
| • View | Thesis 80: Violence | |
| • View | Thesis 81: Vengeance | |
| • View | Thesis 82: Creationist Anarcho-Socialism and Darwinian Archo-Socialism | |
| • View | Thesis 83: Pedagogy and The Powers | |
| • View | Thesis 84: The End of Archists: The Pedagogues Judged by the Church | |
| • View | Thesis 85: The Last Days of the Old Covenant | |
| • Salt and Statism | |
| • Ghostbusters on Mars Hill |
| • View | Thesis 86: “The Millennium” | |
| • View | Thesis 87: “Ruling with Christ” | |
| • Angels and Autarchy | |
| • View | Thesis 88: Salvation as Light and Social Healing | |
| • View | Thesis 89: Edenic Restoration | |
| • View | Thesis 90: The New Heavens and New Earth | |
| • View | Thesis 91: The Unconverted In the “Millennium” | |
| • View | Thesis 92: The Last Acts of Earthly Archists | |
| • View | Thesis 93: The City of God | |
| • View | Thesis 94: We are in Heaven Now | |
| • View | Thesis 95: Perfection |
200 million people in America claim to be Christian. If all of them would
the State would disappear. |
One reason many of these Christians don't actively work for Micah's Vine & Fig Tree society is that they believe God has predestined the world to get worse and worse. This is an unBiblical view.
A second reason many Christians don't actively work for Micah's Vine & Fig Tree society is that they believe God has "ordained" the State, and that God commands us to have a State, and abolishing the State would be contrary to His will. This too is an unBiblical view. It begins with an erroneous interpretation of Paul's Letter to the Romans.
"'Christian anarchism?' You must be joking!"
This webpage is no joke. The 21st century will be an incomparable blood-bath if Christians do not repudiate the political mythology of institutionalized vengeance. Christians brought liberty to the Western world by questioning the universally-accepted belief in "the divine right of kings." Now is the time for a "paradigm-shift" of equal magnitude. Our concept of social order should depend on Godly families, not institutionalized political violence.