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Originally Posted by SONIC GAIL
suchfriends:
Submission to the Authorities
Romans 13 Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2 Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you. 4 For he is God’s servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God’s servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience.
6 This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. 7 Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor
in conjunction with
Acts 27 Having brought the apostles, they made them appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned by the high priest. 28 “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man’s blood.”
29 Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than men! 30 The God of our fathers raised Jesus from the dead—whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree. 31 God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Savior that he might give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel. 32 We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
= God is the ultimate keeper of the law but you must have an established system to keep order even if it is corrupt one. After all no human is perfect. I just love bible contradictions!
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I see they got to you as well? (jk)
on the real though, Ask a priest, the proper, Orthodox (ie,
staight thinking original interpretations by the early Church Fathers who are the authors of the new testament in the first place
) is that those specific scriptures are in reference to Church authority of Priests and Bishops and their hires, not necessarily the political authorities. But in the Protestant tradition, the scriptures were re-interpreted (by ministers and preachers faithful to the state) to be in reference not to clerical, but to legal authorities. The Orthodox Church has traditionally believed itself higher than legal authority, and for the first ten centuries of Christianity it remained that way.