[wideawake]

Thanks for the insult.

Would Paul have advocated helping murderers avoid arrest and imprisonment because the government was a lesser authority?

The government that Paul taught was placed over us by God?

Again, it is fairly straightforward that Paul was addressing Christians suing one another over personal disputes - he taught obedince to civil authority in criminal matters, and he lived that teaching to a martyr's death.

[editor-surveyor]

There you go with another strawman!

It was members of the kingdom he addressed, thus a excellent parallel with the topic of this thread.
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