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To: Responsibility2nd
How does the Word of God relate to the popular libertarian agenda that our leaders and our government is to be held with a high degree of distrust and even contempt?

Another passage from 1 Peter 2:13-17...

13 Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human authority: whether to the emperor, as the supreme authority, 14 or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right. 15 For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people. 16 Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves. 17 Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the emperor.
"do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil". I love that. It flies in the face of the libertarian agenda that we should legalize drugs, or porn or abortion or etc.
3 posted on 05/11/2015 8:23:29 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

So where is the “escape clause” that says, “When those doing the governing are evil, fight against them.”


5 posted on 05/11/2015 8:28:58 AM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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