• 1 Corinthians 6:12
  Flee Sexual Immorality
  “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.
• 1 Corinthians 10:23
  Do All to the Glory of God
  “All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.

I left the context headers in these verses in order to demonstrate what is at stake in reference to Paul’s saying all things are lawful. His reference to lawful is a spiritual element not a legal argument.

Man makes and amends laws on a wide area of concerns over how society acts. In spiritual terms it is often considered making sin legal. In a society where majority rules, influence peddlers spend enormous energy and money to remove morality from the law because the US constitution has an amendment stating that the government shall not be a theocracy. 

Just because our laws say that you will not be arrested and punished for a certain sin does not alter mankind’s final judgment being settled in the courts of heaven. When a majority does not believe in God’s authority over their lives, they refuse to listen to any truth that is called absolute. 

I believe in the separation of church and state. I believe in the separation of legalities and moral absolutes. I do not want to live in a theocracy. I want to live in Christ without the constraints of the government telling us how to worship.

Politics and religion are said to be strange bedfellows but the truth is that God wants us to love Him and each other by the law of love which is not legislated by man.

Galatians 5:22-24 English Standard Version

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

The flesh doesn’t like to be crucified. 

“What is dead may never die.” The Iron Isles slogan from Game of Thrones