(November 3, 2012 at 7:16 pm)Reasonable_Jeff Wrote: Also, I didn't follow on why you can't have moral authority that reconciles with the Bible. A government can say, "don't kill" ..... that coincides with Biblical principles.
What if the "don't kill" injunction conflicted with biblical principles? Would you still stand by your position of "submit[ting] to authority unless it conflicts with Biblical truth"?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'