"To have none other gods, means to have no other law than God's law, and no activity or thought apart from His law-word. Whether for food, to uphold the civil law, in warfare, or in self-defense, blood can be shed only in terms of God's word. Where God permits it, man cannot contradict God or propose a "better" or "higher" way without sin.
Thus, to regard vegetarianism, pacifism, or non-resistance in all cases, as a "higher" way is to treat God's way as lower than man's."
R. J. Rushdoony - The Institutes of Biblical Law Vol. 1, P. 47.
In talking of the 1st Commandment and the Shema Israel
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