Unconditional Surrender: God's Program for Victory
Overview
Everyone knows Christianity is a religion; but what difference does it make in a society? Is Christianity just a religion for private time, or is it a way of life that shapes one’s understanding of the world—even able to transform a nation?
Does the Bible teach anything specific about how to raise a family, run a country, or manage an economy? Moreover, if the Bible does have something to say, do we have to observe those commands, or are they mere suggestions or general principles?
Despite widespread ignorance of the Bible’s teachings—both inside and outside of the church—the Bible has plenty to say about social, civil, and political affairs. And when men and women apply these teachings to their lives and the world around them, the world will change for the better.
A primer in the Christian faith, Unconditional Surrender provides readers curious about the Bible with the blueprint of a biblical worldview. Using the Bible’s basic teachings about God, man, law, judgment, and time—and illustrating how these beliefs affect society at large—Gary North wades in at the heart of the battle in today’s culture war, and shows that the Bible has the answers modern science and socialism lack.
Since Unconditional Surrender is fully integrated with Logos, Scripture passages are linked to your favorite translation for quick reference and to your Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts for original-language study! You can also read this volume along with your Bible dictionaries, encyclopedias, and the wealth of other Bible study tools in your digital library.
- Introduction to the basics of Christianity
- Examination of the fundamentals of orthodox Christianity
- Analyzes the implications of Christianity for the three covenantal institutions of human life
Top Highlights
“‘The theological liberals have believed in history but not in God, while the conservatives have believed in God but not in history.’ What this book stresses is the reality of both God and history. Individuals are saved, but if they bear spiritual fruit, they will also bear cultural fruit. God speaks to this world, for He made this world. He calls people to repentance, but repentance from specific sins, specific ways of life, specific attitudes, specific philosophies, and specific economic doctrines. God speaks to the whole man, and therefore He speaks to the whole world. We must therefore preach the whole counsel of God, just as the prophets of the Old Testament did.” (Page 8)
“God says that covenant-breakers recognize a God-fearing society when they see one” (Page 125)
“God is creatively constructive, while man is receptively reconstructive.” (Page 29)
“Welfare is to be a product of personal or ecclesiastical decisions. The state is to be kept out of the welfare area because it has a monopoly of tax collection. By providing programs of tax-financed assistance, the messianic state transfers wealth by force from some people to others. It transfers sovereignty from private citizens and voluntary agencies to itself. It consolidates power in the name of necessity. It is forever seeking out new beneficiaries of other people’s productive efforts, in order to consolidate raw political power over people. The welfare function, when centralized and made compulsory, leads to the creation of a messianic state, and this state becomes arrogant.” (Page 227)
- Title: Unconditional Surrender: God’s Program for Victory
- Author: Gary North
- Publisher: American Vision
- Publication Date: 2010
- Pages: 372
