GOD, MAN, AND THE HIERARCHY

 By Rev. Bennie Castle - Posted at Calvinist Ruminant:

The evils of today all stem from the same root. Equality, Equity, Equivalent, Equal. All of these words stem from the Latin aequus meaning “level or even.” Translation, flat. It is the great flattening of the modern world that has produced the evils of today.

Under this revolutionary theory, the hierarchy of nature is denied through a misuse of reason. Denying the hierarchy of nature is, in turn, a denial of the God of Nature who created the world hierarchically. “For Adam was formed first, then Eve” (1 Timothy 2:13). At the first, when God made Man, He made him in order, in sequence, in a hierarchy. Adam was made first and was hence the head of the woman (1 Corinthians 11:3).

This hierarchy is expressed in other relations as well. Parents are always above children in age and ought to be so in wisdom. Teachers are above students in knowledge and ought to be so in virtue. Kings are above the people in virtue and ought to be so in decision. Priests are above their flocks in faith, hope, and love and ought to be in sacrifice. In every human relation, along every fiber of human society, running in step with each warp of the human tapestry we find the woof of hierarchy.

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