Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary.

Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary.

The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed law of God (which, we must note, was addressed specifically to perennial problems in political morality), then what will it be? In some form or expression it will have to be the law of man (or men) — the standard of self-law or autonomy.

To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology.

God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.

If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's eyes--there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism.

A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless.