Featured It's a Sin to Disrespect the President and to not Submit to his Authority

The logical outcome of that thought line is Rosa Parks sits in the back of the bus, and shuts up about it.

 

And african-americans needed to accept that they were slaves.

 

Women should have accepted their status in the work place.

 

Jesus should not have performed miracles on the sabbath.

 

Respecting the office of the President, or any leader, does not mean that one can never point out the wrongdoings of any official. That is really what you're complaining about, and you can forget it.

We have ample examples from the Bible.

• The prophet Nathan had to approach King David with a very bad report about his wrongdoing with Bathsheba.
• Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego told the King, "We have no need to answer you on this matter."
• Jesus himself said of Herod, "Go and tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I reach My goal' " (Luke 13:32; and by the way, calling Herod a "fox" was not exactly a term of endearment; the Greek alopex means sly or devious).
• Peter and John told the Elders of Jerusalem, “"Whether it is right in the sight of God to give heed to you rather than to God, you be the judge;for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard" ” (Acts 4:19-20).

So, Zaac, drop it. We're not going to stop criticizing this president, nor am I going to stop calling him the "Great Pretender" because, quite honestly, I can't stand to type his name. He is indeed alopex. Makes Herod look like a choir boy.

 

For at least the past half-century Christian pastors and churches have been all but neutered. On the whole, they have ignored Christ’s admonition to be the “salt of the earth,” and as a result, have failed to do much of anything to preserve freedom’s Biblical Natural Law principles in this great land. In fact, the average church is so sugary sweet that it is downright sickening!

And the two main reasons for this dereliction of duty by America’s pastors and churches are the IRS 501c3 non-profit tax status, which turns the Lord’s church into a government corporation; and the erroneous, fallacious interpretation of Romans chapter 13 that teaches Christians are obligated to submit to government regardless of whether government acts within the confines and jurisdiction of God’s law or not. In reality, the American church today, on the whole, is not even a church. It is a government corporation whose loyalty is offered first to Caesar, not to Christ, and whose message is first politically correct before it is Biblically correct.

It is more than interesting that some 95% of the 14,000 evangelical churches that graced the German landscape during Hitler’s rise to power bought into the identical misinterpretation of Romans 13 that the vast majority (probably at least 95%) of the 300,000 evangelical churches that grace America’s landscape have bought into today.

http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/Articles/tabid/109/ID/320/Romans-13-Setting-It-Straight.aspx

First you condemn us for being evil then you condemn us for not following evil. Make up your mind Zaac.

 

A couple of problems with your defense of Obama.

The first and most obvious is that the president's authority is valid only inasmuch as he adheres to the Constitution. Virtually NOTHING this guy does is consistent with the Constitution. Therefore, he is acting outside his legal authority.

The second is that, while we are obligated to respect the office, we are under no obligation to respect the man, particularly not when the man has set himself up as an enemy of God.

Do we obey God or man?

 

I'm not the one being stupid. Authority is authority.

And the baptists SHOULD shut up about abortion, already. The republicans they are counting on to end it don't have the spine. It is a 20-year project, and we can't get them to fight for two weeks. But that's another thread.

I reject the premise in it's entirety.

 

I tell you the truth: Christians in persecuted lands are not enamored with entertainment, recreation, and irrelevant Bible exposition. You don’t have to bring in some big-name rock band to entice them to fellowship. You don’t have to give their teenagers a big gymnasium. You don’t have to give their young adults coffee shops and espresso machines. You don’t have to shy away from criticisms of tyrannical government. And you certainly are not going to score any points with your fallacious “obey-the-government-no-matter-what” interpretation of Romans 13.

http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/Article...-Entertainment-And-Irrelevant-Exposition.aspx

 

Truly it is said, ignorance is bliss, and you must be the most blissful person on the face of the earth.



Enjoy your life, Zaac. Someone has to.

 

Martin Luther needed to respect his Catholic authority, after all, God put it there.

 

Justiin Martyr should have honored the prefect who threatened him with death unless he and his disciples stopped preaching the gospel.

Maybe he should have grown tomatoes instead.

 

Did Joseph and Mary defy Herod in their flight ? Pretty disrespectful.

 

Maybe John the Baptist could have offered to wait tables at Herod's party to atone for his "criticism" of the king's illicit affair with his sister-in-law.