If we start speaking relatively, then we can come up a whole bunch of assertions which may be ultimately way off the mark!
Because it is a sin to kill, does not mean that, by necessity, the one who was killed had some unalienable right taken from them.
If that was the case, then God would not have allowed for capital punishment, since it would infringe on the person’s right.
Since GOD granted the right he can set conditions under which it may be removed, murder is one of those conditions.
The Israelites of the OT certainly didn’t speak of any such unalienable right, and neither did Christ.
That does not mean that such rights don't exist, there are many things that are not in the bible but do exist.
Our sins is not against persons, but against God, for disobeying His commandments. That doesn’t give us some right, even if we try to justify it by claiming relationtional reasons.
If I have children and give one of them a bike and tell the others not to take it from him he has a right to that bike until I take it from him, it is the same with GOD and his children.
Meanwhile, TJ wrote about God-given rights of liberty, while at the same time owning slaves. Ah! But, relatively speaking, ‘liberty’ can mean different things.
A hypocrisy he acknowledged and agonized over, he did set them free in his will.
I don't intend to judge him favorably or unfavorably about it because it is not my place and it is also not necessary for my argument, hypocrisy does not indicate that a position is wrong, it only indicates that the person is not practicing what they preach.
He cursed them so much with a King, that King David brought Israel to its greatest victories and King Solomon built the Temple of Jerusalem! He didn’t curse them with it, He gave them a dispensation on account of their weakness.
1 Samuel
Chapter 8
4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.
9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.
11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint
them for himself, for his chariots, and
to be his horsemen; and
some shall run before his chariots.
12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and
will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
13 And he will take your daughters
to be confectionaries, and
to be cooks, and
to be bakers.
14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards,
even the best
of them, and give
them to his servants.
15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put
them to his work.
17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
20 That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.
22 And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.
It sounds like a curse to me.
Nevertheless, it was certainly a God-approved political system. The only democracies and republics of the ancient times were all pagan, and short lived comparatively. By the looks of what the American experiment is unfortunately demonstrating, it sometimes seems it is headed there as well.
No system has ever worked very well because people tend to be wicked, absent direct theocracy I believe that a limited Republic with monarchy like elements is the best we can do for ourselves.
As for the Judges, they were also allowed by God but I cannot recall if they were ordained, as in being anointed with holy oil. Would need to look it up.
I do not remember any of them being anointed with oil, those that I remember were chosen by direct revelation from GOD.
It is most certainly possible to offend other mortals. This doesn’t mean God has given ‘rights’.
See above.
I am assuming you are writing “CONstantine” as some form of derogatory manner which is unfortunate.
Constantine never truly converted and sought to pervert the church in order to use it as a tool of the empire, he had absolutely no authority to do what he did.
I am also beginning to think that you have the idea that the Church fell way at some time and fell into complete apostasy only to be reclaimed again at some later date (a la Joseph Smith). In other words, you believe that the Holy Spirit failed, and that the historic Church disappeared when Constantine stopped the persecution of the Christians. That is very unfortunate and I respectfully suggest that you study more the ancient writings instead of following novel ahistorical and unfactual claims.
I am a Mormon and I would suggest that you are missing some things in your understanding of the Bible:
2 Thessalonians 2:3
“Let no man deceive you by any means: for
that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;”
King James Version (KJV)
Matthew 24:28
“For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.”
King James Version (KJV)
A carcase is a dead body, even Mormonism has succumbed to much heresy and corruption, it began in the founding generation and has only gained ground since.