[3] Theonomy presumes biblical Israel’s Old Covenant judicial laws have not been abrogated, and therefore all civil governments must enforce them (including the specific penalties).
Theonomy holds that all civil governments must refrain from coercion if Scripture has not prescribed their intervention (the "regulative principle of the state").
He instead taught that the judicial precepts contained varying degrees of universal principles of justice that reflected natural law.
[17][18] More recent theonomic writers such as Joel McDurmon, former President of American Vision, have moved away from this position, stating that these death penalties are no longer binding in the new covenant.
[21] According to the theonomist Greg Bahnsen, the laws of God are the standard which Christian voters and officials ought to pursue.