There is a book written a few years ago – The Doctrine of Lesser Magistrates.
It’s premise is good law is in line with the Bible and the Ten Commandments. Poor or bad law is contrary to God’s word.
The Doctrine says if the government passes bad law, it is up to lesser magistrates to counter that by defying tyranny (such as through nullification).
May I coin a new term. The Doctrine of Salt which is based on the premise that all worthy and meaningful and lasting insight is in line with the Word and any insight which is not in line with God’s word should be thrown out ‘like salt which has lost its saltiness.’
It’s amazin’ how salt permeates the entity which is salted. A little salt on a nice steak or a salt encrusted salmon steak is delicious.
When I was single, I cooked for myself and for my son. Although I can cook, I am not a good cook. I am great at sustenance and building health but terrible at making healthy food tasty. Most of my family and friends would prefer to go ‘out to eat’ when they visited me during my decade of being ‘ecstatically single the second time around’.
When I met my soulmate, I gained some weight and a little fat around my middle, even though I was still working out daily. Why? Because the food I consumed went from being sustenance to being enjoyable.
Getting back to salt, it is amazing how a little pinch of salt changes how my taste buds enjoy a bite of cow or fish. If you prepare it correctly, you don’t need much salt but the salt permeates the entire steak, salad or bowl of fresh roasted vegetables.
By using the DOCTRINE OF SALT in our education, politics, worship, work, play, relaxation and recreation results in God’s word permeating every aspect of our lives. The early Americans did this. In fact, this is why the Pilgrims and many Europeans in the Colonies came here, to allow the salt of God’s word to permeates every corpuscle of their being.
This is why the belief the First Amendment of the United States Constitution separates the Church from the State is totally wrong.
Can you imagine a Pilgrim taking God’s word and the worship of God and putting it in a corner of the room on an end table, only to be picked up for a couple of hours on Sunday mornings when they were headed off to a weekly prayer meeting? But modern America and modern education would have you believing that is the case.
Such people do this for one reason. They fail to see how salt preserves, protects as well as makes life enjoyable.
Without the Doctrine of Salt, Donald Trump getting re-elected in November is meaningless. In fact, with the DOS (Doctrine of Salt), I’d wager resurrecting George Washington would fail to restore the Constitutional Republic that was the United States of America.
