The Legal and the Personal
"The covenant with God is a legal relationship. Abraham's faith is within the context thus of law, but it is more personal because of that fact. The modern mind separates the legal and the personal, because humanism has made law statist and abstract and hence impersonal. This is not true in the reality of God's creation. My relation to my wife is personal because it is legal, because it meets God's law. An illegal sexual relationship is impersonal and exploitive. In Scripture, the more faithful we are to God's law, the more close and personal is our relationship to Him and to our fellow men. It is a serious error to import the impersonalism of humanistic thought and law into Biblical thought." ~ R. J. Rushdoony, Systematic Theology in Two Volumes, 674.
