The Home, The Church, and Civil Government
Introduction: God-Given Institutions and Their Relationships 1. When God created the world, He created three kinds of living beings: plants, animals and man, with man the apex of Creation (Psalm 8). 2. From Creation, man has enjoyed a symbiosis with both the plant and animal kingdom. However, his necessary ties to plants far exceed his ties to animals. a. Man (and all animals for that matter) was created as a vegetarian. Today, there remains a necessary relationship between the two.…
