I’ve heard all my life that corrupt and oppressive governments create laws that can’t be complied with so that they always have the arbitrary power to destroy anyone. I don’t know what to do as a Christian, since we are told to obey the laws . . . when it is impossible to obey the laws and survive . . . or even to know them.
One of the important lessons of “Atlas Shrugged”. The point of passsing so many laws is NOT so you will obey all of them, but so the government can GUARANTEE you will be in violation of at least one of them.
What you and I are faced with is the personal responsibility to to obey LEGITIMATE laws. It is rather akin to a member of the military being requried to obey lawful orders. As another point of view, you will remember that the Libs dragged Nazis into a court (thus legitimizing that little process in international law) instead of simply hanging them. They felt the need to put a clean leagalese frosting on everything instead of just tending to business.
>> I’ve heard all my life that corrupt and oppressive governments create laws that can’t be complied with so that they always have the arbitrary power to destroy anyone. I don’t know what to do as a Christian, since we are told to obey the laws . . . when it is impossible to obey the laws and survive . . . or even to know them. <<
If we render unto Ceasar much more we will end up being rendered into lard to greese the wheels of tyrants.