Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.
I'm ready to suffer - but no one should say I am suffering as an evildoer.
Whenever I have an opportunity to tell people about my Lord and Savior, I will. I will do it with humility as best I can.
If I have sinned against anyone with offensive language, then tell me (Matt 18:15) I will humbly seek forgiveness and reconciliation.
Many people have declared a hearty "Amen!" to you. I do not.
I'm on a different mission than you. This is not my home.
Our missions may intersect, but they are not the same. I believe my principle responsibility is to do God"s work while I am here. Then I'm going home to be with my Victorious King!
I’m not going to argue with you about that, but as long as you’re here posting on FR, please mind your manners. Thanks.
There is no contradiction between working for a God-fearing government AND being polite on a religious forum on a website with the purpose of working for a God-fearing government.
I tell my children that they are under obligation to vote because of Romans 13. It is true. The governing authorities are established by God is clearly the message of Romans 13...for our good. However, in our system WE are the government. "WE the People of the United States...".
As the governing authority, WE THE PEOPLE, have a God-given responsibility to participate in this government so that it DOES GOOD, that it protects justice, that the people are defended, that they are not subjugated.
So, is it a wake-up call for the founder of this site to say, "We are on a mission from God!"
No, it is not!
It is ENTIRELY Biblical and Christian, and enabling this site to pursue this unified mission is a Godly mission.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.—Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.