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Bart, Baptist polity requires that government should not legally incentivize church membership or determine what is settled orthodoxy or church polity. Thus, the government should not have a formal establishment.
But our polity does not require that government should not preference any "religion." Genesis 9:6 requires that the government recognize that man is made in the image of the God of the Bible. Romans 13:4 says the government must minister to our "good." Surely context requires that the Bible's definition of good is good. How can the government see human beings as God's image or promote the good unless it acknowledges our God as the true God and thus the Christian religion as the true religion?
Bart Barber@bartbarber
"7. Does not teach, endorse, or otherwise promote the idea that the civil magistrate should lead the government to promote any religion over any other religion and does not elect as messengers to this Convention any who espouse such views."
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