Theological inertia pushes both ways: there is the tendency to remain in a static position - unmoved and unchanging, but once motion has begun, there is the tendency to continue moving in a straight line until we reach the end -- like falling down the stairs. Tumbling down the theonomic stairs has produced more than a few bumps and bruises. I was warned some years ago, as I came near the upper landing of theonomy, that I was in danger of falling. As a Baptist pastor I was especially cautioned about the logical (theological) implications of theonomy and the inevitable conclusions of covenant theology - especially paedobaptism. They were right.