(July 3, 2018 at 1:34 pm)JairCrawford Wrote:(July 3, 2018 at 1:04 pm)Drich Wrote: I copied and pasted the first 1/3 of the chapter... the rest of it does not change this first 1/3 sport... hence NOTHING is out of context. Like it or not this was a tough pill for me to swallow when obama was in office now it is simply your turn to take your medicine for society's sake. what's more better find a flavor you like because you got 6 more years of this medicine to take.
What this means is, it would be inappropriate and un-Christian of me were I to take a pitchfork and light it and charge with a large riot and battering ram against the doors of the White House in an attempt to usurp Trump. That is bad because God does not want us to resort to violence against authority, because as a society we need authority to keep us in line.
There is a vast difference between that ^ above, and personally disagreeing with what our current president is doing. There is no admonition against disagreement, only rebellion, and in the context of said rebellion causing more harm than good.
ah... no. What the passage is telling you to do is spelled out in the passage itself. no need to draw a modern parallel,unless you are trying to rewrite what Paul explicitly says. now remember paul has been imprisoned and beaten at least once by rome at this point/before he wrote Romans. never once voice a disagreement. Never objected for being wrongly jailed, never demanded treatment outside of what the law allowed. So then where does your authority come from that allows you to 'protest' the law? from with in the law itself. not a direct line or act of God. It is a grace included in the law a provision from with in the government from allowing the government from getting too big. Which is secondly backed by God but not because God allows us to circumvent the law.
