Roman’s 13 teaches submission to authorities, but how far should Christians go when submitting to the laws of men?
“Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?” ~ Matthew 6:26
It has come to my attention that many people believe we should follow authority, regardless of what we’re being ordered to do. To make matters worse, there is a huge problem with our justice system today. I see a few different camps of people in this group. There’s those that blindly follow, and these followers will sometimes go as far as to get hostile toward anyone questioning their belief. Then there are those that ‘go along to get along’, and say they just don’t want to ‘make waves’, despite having some idea that what they’re doing is unnecessary or even flat out wrong. Finally there are some that simply comply out of fear – fear of man that is, not God – usually concerned with losing their job. Matthew 6:26 says, “Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?”.
Oh ye of little faith.
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We haven’t learned a thing since back in the day when the state made the church to be it’s strong arm. Easier to control the masses through their beliefs, helped by keeping them illiterate. The church was just the middleman to get the people to do what the govt wanted.
A couple hundred thousand years of “evolution” … and the result is what we hve today.