Land: God calls some into public service: God calls some Christians to public service in order to uphold justice, Southern Baptist ethicist Richard Land told law and government students at Regent University. Land cited Romans 13 in saying God ordained civil government, which “exists to curtail evil and to reward the good.” Since government is “divinely ordained,” Land said, he thinks God “does call some of us to be involved in government, because you cannot write laws that will protect you from bad application by evil people.”
“Laws can only do so much to bring about justice,” said the president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. “If you are really going to have justice in a society, then you are going to have to have people who are seeking justice within the system who are working in the system …”
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