Write 250 words on this topic: “Is the state the source of human rights?”
The simple answer is no, God is. How did I get to this point? First, when you look at the state, it is the opposite of rights. Rules, regulations, requirements, and limitations. God is the source of rights Gen 1:27. He created us in his image. He allowed us to grow, learn, walk, talk, reproduce, create, work, and a lot more things. Although the state tries to act like God, they can’t. The state may try to stop you from reproducing/abortion; they teach you only what they want you to know/public school, and much more. God is the only one who can govern us. He is autonomous and in full control of everything he has created.
But you may not be a Christian; you might be an atheist. Yet does that mean the state is the source of human rights? The answer is still no. The state was merely made to regulate human rights. Governments can only protect rights, not give them. In history there are examples of the states violating our rights. Between censorship, slavery, and much more, they are proving they are not the source. In natural right theory it says that an individual has rights even in a state of nature, without laws or governments.
The state is only here to enforce laws and supposedly protect the rights God has already given us. Humans have inherent rights, not the state telling us what we have. The state has never been responsible for giving us rights, and they never should be.
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