To: SeekAndFind
Well, the general principle is there are just laws and there are unjust laws.I've never seen anything in the Bible that would indicate Christians should ignore "unjust" laws. Perhaps you are confusing the passages that show men ignoring laws that impede obedience to God?
16 posted on
05/27/2010 2:36:55 PM PDT by
Anti-Utopian
("Come, let's away to prison; We two alone will sing like birds I' th' cage." -King Lear [V,iii,6-8])
To: Anti-Utopian
I've never seen anything in the Bible that would indicate Christians should ignore "unjust" laws
Common sense tells you that not all government are righteous. For instance, In the book of Exodus, God blessed the Egyptian women who DISOBEYED the Pharoah's law to kill Hebrew babies. See Exodus 1:8-20.
See also Acts 5:17-29. Peter told the Sanhedrin who told them to stop preaching the gospel ( the Sanhedrin was was the high court of ancient Israel ) : "We must obey God rather than man.". The principle is there.
If the 10 Commandment tells you that you should not murder, and your state tells you BY LAW that you should help them do it (As in Nazi Germany), then you are frankly in a dilemma. You either obey God's laws or disobey state laws but you cannot obey both. Peter's response in such situations : WE MUST OBEY GOD RATHER THAN MAN (Acts 5:29).
THAT is exactly what many Christians like Corrie Ten Boon faced during the second world war.
To: Anti-Utopian; SeekAndFind
Any law that prohibits what God commands, or commands what God prohibits, is an unjust law. We are obliged by God to disobey such laws.
That's why some people in the Bible are commended for breaking certain laws (e.g. the Egyptian midwives.)
30 posted on
05/27/2010 3:24:18 PM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
(Mammalia Primatia Hominidae Homo sapiens. Still working on the "sapiens" part.)
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