Christian attorneys accept civil government schools
Deconstructing the Coliseum: Teaching the Christian worldview, including how the civil government has no God-given right to operate a school system.
I once had a very high level Christian attorney (who works for a Christian policy organization) tell me that it is perfectly acceptable for the civil government to operate a school system; his reason: there is no biblical prohibition against them doing so. That was and is an interesting assertion.
There is a prohibition against the civil government operating a school system. Read Romans 13. Where does exercising the power of the physical sword give justification for advancing humanism – or Christianity – by force? It doesn’t. I can reduce the assertion of civil government carte blanche to an absurdity.
First, just as the church government is comprised of humans, the civil government is comprised of humans. Further, to say humans acting as the civil government can do whatever they want – absent a biblical prohibition – means the civil government can take your house. After all, there is no biblical prohibition against this. If you use your imagination there is an infinite amount of things the civil government is not prohibited from doing.
Romans 13 does not merely articulate what the civil government is supposed to do; it articulates the limits of what is to be done. That is, Romans 13 does prohibit the use of the physical sword, except to punish evildoers (and as a consequence promote good). That naturally precludes operating a school system. Separately, God articulates affirmative commands to the family and church governments to teach and spread the gospel. All those principles together mean the civil government has no right to operate a school system.
The fact that high level Christian attorneys find it acceptable that the civil government operates a school system, means those same attorneys are failing to address the very source of the humanism they oppose on the policy level.