No, they weren't wrong. In fact, that was the exact right thing to do, and that's the reason they did declare independance. They appealed and failed and declared independance. Are people declaring independance from America now?
And, after they declared independance, the fight was brought to them and they defended themselves.
"No, they weren't wrong. In fact, that was the exact right thing to do, and that's the reason they did declare independance. They appealed and failed and declared independance. Are people declaring independance from America now?
And, after they declared independance, the fight was brought to them and they defended themselves."
I can't disagree with anything you wrote here. Now the Boston Tea Party occurred a couple years before the Declaration of Independence. You threw out Romans 13 to be provacative. Was the Boston Tea Party wrong? Nobody had declared independence yet.
My point is a lot of Christians over the years have invoked Romans 13 as an excuse to do nothing. Good thing our Christian Founding Fathers didn't do that.
The fight had been going on for over a year when independence was declared. Independence was declared 1776 July 04. The fighting started 1775 April 19 at Lexington and Concord. The famous Battle of Bunker Hill (which took place on Breed's Hill) was long over by the time independence was declared. The difference was that up until independence was declared, the colonists considered themselves Englishman, fighting for their rights as Englishmen. Afterwords they considered themselves Americans. (Some, Ben Franklin for instance, considered themselves Americans well before 1775)