Included with a Kindle Unlimited membership.

Read with Kindle Unlimited

Buy used: $32.95

FREE delivery Thursday, August 25

Select delivery location

Used: Acceptable | Details

Sold by Online Prime Books

Fulfilled by Amazon

Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

Share <Embed>

Have one to sell?

Sell on Amazon

Flip to back Flip to front

Listen Playing... Paused You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more

See this image

Follow the Author

Greg L. Bahnsen

By This Standard: The Authority of God's Law Today Paperback – June 1, 1991

by Greg L. Bahnsen (Author)

95 ratings

See all formats and editions

Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$5.95

—

Paperback

"Please retry"

$16.95

—

Paperback, June 1, 1991

$32.95

—

$28.06

Kindle
$0.00 Read with Kindle Unlimited to also enjoy access to over 1 million more titles $5.95 to buy
Paperback
$32.95

8 Used from $28.06

God's Law is Christianity's tool of dominion. This is where any discussion of God's law ultimately arrives: the issue of dominion. Ask yourself: Who is to rule on earth, Christ or Satan? Whose followers have the ethically acceptable tool of dominion, Christ's or Satan's? What is this tool of dominion, the bibically revealed law of God, or the law of self-proclaimed autonomous man? Whose word is sovereign, God's or man's?

Millions of Christians, sadly, have not recognized the continuing authorigy of God's law or its many applications to modern society. They have thereby reaped the whirlwind - cultural and intellectual impotence. They implicitly have surrendered this world to the devil. They have implicitly denied the power of the death and resurrection of Christ. They have served as footstools for the enemies of God. But humanism's free ride is coming to an end. This book serves as an introduction to this woefully neglected topic.

Print length

372 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Christian Liberty Pr
Publication date

June 1, 1991
Dimensions

4.25 x 1 x 7 inches
ISBN-10

0930464060
ISBN-13

978-0930464066
See all details

Greg L. Bahnsen
57
Paperback
17 offers from $26.99
Greg L Bahnsen
276
Paperback
15 offers from $17.95
Greg L. Bahnsen
132
Paperback
11 offers from $8.11
Cornelius Van Til
89
Paperback
26 offers from $9.67
Greg L. Bahnsen
85
Hardcover
16 offers from $29.95
Kenneth L Gentry
15
Paperback
9 offers from $35.82

Greg L. Bahnsen
57
Paperback
17 offers from $26.99
Greg L. Bahnsen
132
Paperback
11 offers from $8.11
Greg L Bahnsen
276
Paperback
15 offers from $17.95
Joseph Boot
177
Paperback
3 offers from $22.77
Joseph Boot
48
Paperback
1 offer from $16.09
Greg L. Bahnsen
85
Hardcover
16 offers from $29.95

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Christian Liberty Pr (June 1, 1991)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 372 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0930464060
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0930464066
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.25 x 1 x 7 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #2,986,362 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #59,558 in Theology (Books)

Customer Reviews:
95 ratings

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

Greg L. Bahnsen

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Discover more of the author’s books, see similar authors, read author blogs and more

Customer reviews

5 star		83%
4 star		8%
3 star		5%
2 star		2%
1 star		2%

How customer reviews and ratings work

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Christine Rice

An excellent apologetic resource.

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2021

Verified Purchase

I honestly didn’t know what to expect. But this book is powerfully composed. The author doesn’t seem to have a single thought without Biblical substantiation. An excellent resource for apologetics.

6 people found this helpful

Helpful

Keith S. Dunn

God's Law Still Matters

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2021

Verified Purchase

I find that God's law is rarely discussed among Christians today making it appear over-emphasized when someone does speak of it. Greg Bahnsen's book is an excellent resource on this subject!

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. - Ecclesiastes 12:13

4 people found this helpful

Helpful

Richard

The clearest Explanation

Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2022

Verified Purchase

This is the clearest, most Biblically based exposition I have ever read of our relationship to God’s laws today in our lives and society. I will return to this book again and again for reference and encouragement to obey God’s Word, both the Old and New Testaments. The concepts are simple to understand, but the arguments are irrefutable. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
That being said, the Kindle copy I read was very poorly edited and transcribed for Kindle. Words and letters out of place and/or left out altogether. I had a pdf copy to compare it to and the Kindle Unlimited copy definitely needs to be redone.

Helpful

rper

God's Law is THE Standard

Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2016

Verified Purchase

Is the Christian to be guided by God’s law—as found in Scripture—as the rule for life? Moreover, should God’s law be the standard by which all societies should to be run? Bahnsen answers in the affirmative to both questions, giving a strong and clear case as to why. This book serves as a great primer for anyone wanting to learn about theonomy, clearing up most questions people might have on the subject. Bahnsen was always one of the best and most lucid communicators on any subject about which he wrote, such as presuppositional apologetics and Postmillennial eschatology. For a more thorough treatment on the issue of theonomy, Bahnsen’s larger work Theonomy in Christian Ethics cannot be beat.

9 people found this helpful

Helpful

naomi king

A must read, in my view, for everyone who is serious about their faith, their path and their eternal salvation.

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2015

Verified Purchase

This is a first class book which reminds us that the New Testament doesn't 'replace' the Old Testament but merely builds upon it. The law of God is the definition of his character and nature and therefore it is His desire that we draw close to Him by living through his Law. Through Jesus we not only have the knowledge of the Law (and Jesus NEVER revoked it) but also the power to live in it through the purification of his death and the power of his resurrection. We are sanctified, made pure and holy through the Holy Spirit which ENABLES us to keep God's Law and what is more, the Holy Spirit gives us the desire to do so. What a shame that much of the modern church has lost sight of all this and in consequence fallen into Satan's trap of thinking like the World, the flesh and the Devil.

A must read, in my view, for everyone who is serious about their faith, their path and their eternal salvation. Excellent Biblical citations throughout so the logic of the argument can be clearly followed. A work of great scholarship and reflection and yet highly accessible to the lay but interested reader.

6 people found this helpful

Helpful

Riyawzidawn

Probably all you'd ever need to know about Theonomy

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2015

Verified Purchase

Very carefully/tightly reasoned by the late Prof Bahnsen, this is a great first stop in your readings on Theonomy. He appears to have written it as a more approachable version of his "Theonomy in Christian Ethics" (TICE) and I think he succeeded there. That said, there's nothing light and soft about this work. It's very much a "real thing" book. Ninety percent of those who read this won't feel any need to read TICE as there is plenty here.

9 people found this helpful

Helpful

Joshua Butcher

The layman's standard on Theonomy

Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2009

Verified Purchase

By This Standard is a slimmed down version of Bahnsen's larger treatment of Theonomy, Theonomy in Christian Ethics. The shorter version is devoid of lengthy scholarly interaction and extensive footnotes, so it is less helpful for those really wanting to dig into the debate. However, Bahnsen's clear expositional writing makes this the perfect book for folks wanting to learn a sound treatment of Theonomy. Many opponents of theonomic readings of Scripture labor under misconceptions, misrepresentations, and false implications based upon false assumptions about what theonomy actually is. Bahnsen's treatment here is as clear as it gets for the lay reader and is a good primer on the considerations of Biblical law.

20 people found this helpful

Helpful

Kindle Customer

The law

Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2022

Verified Purchase

This book really helps seeing the use of Gods law. Being able to point to something for why it may or may not be moral is really helpful. I'm today's times it is good to have a standard by which we judge things. Who better to get that standard from then the creator.

Helpful

Follow the Author

By This Standard: The Authority of God's Law Today Paperback – June 1, 1991

Customers who viewed this item also viewed

Customers who bought this item also bought

Product details

About the author

Greg L. Bahnsen

Customer reviews

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.