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1 | Governing Authorities | Rom 13:1 | cklamhk | 150626 | ||
According to Rom 13:1, we have to be in subjection to the governing authorities. The reasons given are all governing authorities are established by God and their authorities are orginated from God. My questions are: 1. What are the background when Paul wrote the above verse? 2. Why God sometimes establish governing authorities which are against God (e.g. countries that worhship ideols)? 3. If the governing authorities are against God, why have we to be in subjection to these authorities? How can we live under and respond to the foregoing authorities? |
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2 | Governing Authorities | Rom 13:1 | Hank | 150628 | ||
Hello, cklamhk. Acts 5:17-29 provides a model for how a Christian should deal with civil authority. The conclusion of the matter is this: when civil law is in direct conflict with God's law, "We ought to obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:29). ..... I will not presume even to attempt an answer to your question 2 that begins with, "Why God...?" God is God. God is sovereign. How dare I presume to ask or answer why He does what He does? I am not sovereign. I am not omnipotent. I am not omniscient. I am not holy. He alone is. --Hank | ||||||
3 | Governing Authorities | Rom 13:1 | cklamhk | 150634 | ||
1. What are the background when Paul wrote the above verse? |
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4 | Governing Authorities | Rom 13:1 | Hank | 150637 | ||
cklamhk: Your question is good and it is scripturally oriented. The "background" of Paul's teaching in Romans 13 about civil government can be traced all the way back to Genesis. God established human government after the flood when He decreed, "Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed" (Genesis 9:6). That decree gave authority to men to judge criminal matters and to punish offenders. In every ordered society there must be authority and submission to that authority. Otherwise you have a state of anarchy and nations cannot survive indefinitely under anarchy. Government is better than no government. God instituted human government and no government exists without His will, but this does not mean that God approves of all human rulers (the Bible abounds with proof of this fact) and He never sanctions corruption or tyranny. Nontheless, "authorities that exist are appointed by God" yet Scripture makes one exception to the command to "let every soul be subject to the governing authorities" and that is when obedience to civil authority would require disobedience of God's Word. See Exodus 1:17; Daniel 3:8-18; Daniel 6:4-15; Acts 4:13-22; Acts 5:17-29. --Hank | ||||||