Those who say that we should submit willingly to government because all governments were established by God, need to read the following...
"The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it,"if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it."And the instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it,"if it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My voice, then I will relent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it.” Jeremiah 18:7-10
Blind support of government is a hazardous thing. Note that all the atrocities carried out by Nazi Germany were all perfectly and meticulously "legal" and supported by laws put into effect by democratically elected representatives. The laws were of course immoral, but the government sponsored church of the time said that since God instituted government, then we should follow whatever the "law of the land" was without question. This left even "christians" without the moral grounding to say "no" to things that were clearly against God's law because they were "legal" according to man's law.
Blind support of government is a hazardous thing. Note that all the atrocities carried out by Nazi Germany were all perfectly and meticulously "legal" and supported by laws put into effect by democratically elected representatives. The laws were of course immoral, but the government sponsored church of the time said that since God instituted government, then we should follow whatever the "law of the land" was without question. This left even "christians" without the moral grounding to say "no" to things that were clearly against God's law because they were "legal" according to man's law.
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