If I had read my own "human rights" stuff without knowing who wrote it I would have a big question for me. It would go something like this; okay Dan, so you claim to be a Christian but all that I see you quoting are philosophers and The Declaration of Independence.
You made the assertion that God gave human rights to individuals and not to groups and then offered evidence that does nothing to back up that assertion.
You say that human rights are life, liberty, and property but you must know that as good as the Declaration is, Christians must give their allegiance to Jesus Christ as He is commended to us in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. Besides, Jefferson was no Christian.
Where in the Bible do you see those three human rights spelled out? Huh? Where?
Okay. I've got me.
First of all a right presupposes authority. A right must be conferred on a lesser by the greater authority. God alone possesses all rights as He is the Author of all.
God has the right to life by His very nature.
In the creation account God breaths the breath of life into the first man and he becomes a living soul. Male and female he made them, able to reproduce after their kind. In this way God grants to man the right to life.
We know that this right is granted to individuals because of Gods reaction to the first murder. Cain did not murder mankind but a specific man. It was Ables' blood that cried out from the ground.
I dont think that I need to show how God alone has liberty
By placing man in the garden and prescribing limits God gave man liberty to obey or not. Though man had liberty to disobey he had no authority to do so. Mans liberty is bounded by Gods.
The rights to liberty and property go hand in hand. The first couple had liberty to use their property; ears to listen to the serpents words, minds to consider them and weigh them against the words of their Creator, eyes to look at the fruit, and hands to take it as well as put it to their mouths. property in this sense makes liberty something. otherwise it is nothing.
Property outside of mans body is an extension of his bodily property. When man mixes this bodily property with Gods providence he attains property rights.
Man is accountable to God only for uses of his property that do not violate the life, liberty, and property of other men.
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