The document contrasts God's design for society with an alternative design. God's design features strong marriage and family, respected labor and property, and integrity in communication with allegiance to God. The alternative features weak marriage and family, demeaned and wasted labor and property, deceitful communication for selfish agendas, and allegiance to oneself over God. The document suggests God's design promotes life and well-functioning society, while the alternative jeopardizes life and leads to a dysfunctional society.

1. God s Design of Society
LIFE (protected) LIFE (jeopardized)
MARRIAGE & FAMILY MARRIAGE & FAMILY
(strong & functioning) (weak & dysfunctional)
LABOR & PROPERTY LABOR & PROPERTY
(respected & productive) (demeaned & wasted)
INTEGRITY of INTEGRITY of
COMMUNICATION COMMUNICATION
(consistently states truth ) (deceitfully professes truth
for agendas)
HEART ALLEGIANCE (to HEART ALLEGIANCE (to
God) self)

2. politics
Pressure of Life
ethics
Sequence
Logical
epistemology
metaphysics
Yahweh or an idol?

3. Non-Biblical Answers to:
Who are you to tell me how to live?
1. Subjectivism (moral relativism): Ethical judgments merely
express an individual s emotions or attitudes toward an
action.
Arguments for:
Circumstances & generation differ from person to person.
Intolerant to impose one s values on others.
Two persons’ conflicting judgments can both be true because
they both accurately reflect the individual attitudes.

4. Non-Biblical Answers to:
Who are you to tell me how to live?
1. Subjectivism (moral relativism): Ethical judgments merely
express an individual s emotions or attitudes toward an
action.
Problems with:
Says nothing about actions themselves, only
autobiographical expressions lacking basis for moral
outrage over evil actions.
Self-refuting since every person inevitably judges others
actions (especially toward himself or herself).
Resulting anarchy leads to totalitarian imposition of the
judgments of the stronger against the weaker to avoid
social chaos.

5. Structure of Chapters 6 & 7
Chapter 6 Chapter 7
6:1-9, 20-25 The 7:1-5, 17-26 Holy war &
commands & the the procedures of
procedures of learning executing it
them well
6:10-19 The (heart) 7:6-16 The (contractual)
relationship with relationship with
Yahweh Yahweh

6. politics
Pressure of Life
ethics
Sequence
Logical
epistemology
metaphysics
Yahweh or an idol?

7. Structure of Chapters 6 & 7
Chapter 6 Chapter 7
6:1-9, 20-25 The 7:1-5, 17-26 Holy war &
commands & the the procedures of
procedures of learning executing it
them well
6:10-19 The (heart) 7:6-16 The (contractual)
relationship with relationship with
Yahweh Yahweh

8. Providence of Testing
God changes
not—still
sovereignly,
omnipotently Am I going to trust
loves!! the Lord with the
consequences of a
bad choice??
Test 3
+ - Test 4 ?
Test 2
+
Test 1

9. Faith vs Unbelief
Mob Caleb & Joshua
Fact #1 Num 13:27 land = as God promised
Fact #2 Num 13:28-29 a fight ahead
Grasshopper Bread Interpretation
Interpretation 13:31 - 14:4 13:30; 14:8-9
Occupants stronger than Lord is stronger than they
we are  we re going to are  we can be victorious
die and our families IF we obey
destroyed