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Step one: this is a Christian Nation. It was founded as such and it’s Founders specified as much as “it being inappropriate to any other.”. Live by Christian values or leave.
Thank you for posting this. This truth is too often deliberately suppressed and substituted for unthinking, ungodly submission to the State.
Thank you for posting this...next question, what does disobedience look like? What are the moral limits?
“when the state’s commands conflict with God’s commands, believers must follow the Lord.”
“Choosing to obey Christ when His commands conflict with the state’s may earn us the designation of criminals or traitors.”
In 1612, my ancestor was the last martyr to be burned at the stake in England for “heresy”, for following the Lord instead of the state. (He recanted his beliefs once to avoid martyrdom, but later re-canted his recant — and was burned.)
The way things are going in America, and especially if Hillary is decreed President, it’s possible, even probable, that we’ll find ourselves having to make hard decisions. I hope and pray I would be strong enough to do the right thing.
When you can't, when they won't live in peace with you, that is the line.
19 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it[i] to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” 20 To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Sounds like a call for self-defense.