And Paul screwed up with that statement. His lunacy on that idea has been used for 2000 years to justify earthly Monarchs, and resisting those tyrants was blasphemy. And were Germans obligated to obey Hitler? Russians to dutifully obey Stalin? Would shooting either of them be a sin?
Paul was wrong. He wasn’t Jesus. I am a Christian, not a Paulian.
Do not believe he screwed up. The direction applies until the “authorities” break God’s laws. We are WAY past that with this new “administration.”
“And Paul screwed up with that statement. His lunacy on that idea has been used for 2000 years to justify earthly Monarchs, and resisting those tyrants was blasphemy. And were Germans obligated to obey Hitler? Russians to dutifully obey Stalin? Would shooting either of them be a sin?
Paul was wrong. He wasn’t Jesus. I am a Christian, not a Paulian.
Our interpretation can be wrong at times but God assures us His Word will never return void. And all Scripture is truly Inspired by God.
Isaiah 55:11
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
2 Timothy 3:16
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: