The Ultimate Sovereign, God

THE ULTIMATE SOVEREIGN, GOD

According to Webster's dictionary a sovereign is, "One who exercises supreme, permanent authority."(www.dictionary.com/search?q=sovereign) This definition would seem to be accurate when compared to sixteenth century theorist Thomas Hobbes' definition of what a true sovereign is. Hobbes believed that the sovereign be it one man or a counsel of men, rules supreme over the populous in the land. When paralleled to Christianity, there are a few evils that plague Hobbes' theory of who reigns as the supreme sovereign. God is the characterization of a sovereign.

In Hobbes', LEVIATHAN there are multiple themes that are contemplated and philosophized on however one theme protrudes through the book more than the others and that comes in chapter twenty seven where Hobbes begins to establish a theory on sin and crime. He states, "A sinne, is not onely a transgression of a law, but also any contempt of the legislator. For such contempt, is a breach of all his Lawes at once. And therefore may consist, not onely in the commission of a fact, or in the speaking of words by the Lawes forbidden, or in the omission of what the law commandeth, but also in the