That’s simply incorrect, friend. The divine right of kings emerged out of the Protestant reformation and the rise of the nation state. It was mainly advanced in England to hold that the King was supreme over all earthly authority, including the Church. That rights came from the king and not God. Prior to this distortion of the biblical exhortation to obey lawful authority, the Church held that a King was subject that the laws of God to rule wisely and justly.
“That’s simply incorrect, friend. The divine right of kings emerged out of the Protestant reformation and the rise of the nation state. It was mainly advanced in England to hold that the King was supreme over all earthly authority, including the Church. That rights came from the king and not God. Prior to this distortion of the biblical exhortation to obey lawful authority, the Church held that a King was subject that the laws of God to rule wisely and justly.”
You are totally wrong. The Catholic Church closely aligned with autocraticrulers from the get-go and supported authoritarian power structures. Emperor Constantine in the fourth century essentially codified the Bible for Christ’s sake.