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To: Robert DeLong

Any human monarch is a parasite. Parasites deserve no consideration at all,

I will bow to no One but Christ.


20 posted on 09/07/2016 7:39:10 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

Both Jesus Christ and His Apostle St. Paul said to honor the king and the civil authorities. At that time, the king was Herod, the local civil authority was Pontius Pilate, and the overall “power that be” was the Ronan Emperor.

Yes, there were Jewish armed resistance movements against all three, but neither Jesus nor His Apostles and disciples joined them.

As Scripture makes clear.

When there was a direct head-on clash, when civic authorities forbade what God commanded, or commanded what God forbade, then they rightly refused: “We must obey God, not men.”

But when it came to the ordinary, legal and customary honor and obligation toward monarchs and such, yes, they “ gave honor to whom honor is due,” and they honored the king, paid their taxes and obeyed the law.

We should do what Jesus taught us by His precepts, His example, and His apostles.


31 posted on 09/07/2016 9:05:50 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (They say what's up is down, they say what isn't, is, they put ideas in his head he thought were his.)
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