Agreed but, how do we, as Christians, interpret that?
God’s authority is ubiquitous but, when a certian portion of His creation rejects that authority, how is the XPian respond? In this day and time, this is a ^really big^ concern/discussion.
I am considering that, as a XPian, I will contnue to present Jesus to my “neighbor” but I refuse to waste my time with non-XPians. I do not feel compelled to “convince” the unconvinceable outside of the actions of the Holy Spirit.
Sort of a “dust from my sandals” situation.
Romans 13 has always been used by tyrants to justify their tyranny.
However, in reading it, you can see that LEGITIMATE authority “punishes the wicked and rewards the righteous”.
Then it’s a matter of determining what is righteous, and that is ubiquitous throughout scripture.