it laid the corner stone
of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity...» — John Quincy Adams, July 4, 1837 What was so obvious to our founders and the following generations, but lost on much of America today, is that Jesus was born to set us free.
I'll stick with the «non-theists» who believe
in HUMAN governments run (supposedly) by DEMOCRACY over your weird ideology that spits on our govt but tells us to get on our knees and beg an invisible man in the sky for help.
he said it is his Father that is to be worshiped, The problems that plague mankind CAN NOT AND WILL NOT be solved
by human government.
As the Berlin Wall fell, Francis Fukuyama proclaimed the end of history — «the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form
of human government.»
«Place yourselves under the authority of
human governments to please the Lord.
In the thousands of years of human history, mankind has been able to try every form of self - rule, or
human government.
Jesus made it clear to his followers that that government is still in the future, to replace
all human government now dominating man to his enjury.
It is time for Christians to recognize that the United States Government (or
any human government for that matter) is not the enforcer of biblical guidelines and laws.
«If God is so powerful, why does he need
a human government to prop him up?»
This does not excuse
our human governments for what they do, but it does help explain their actions.
As members of the Kingdom of God, we can (and should) call
our human governments to a better and different way of living in relation to others, but we should recognize that change takes decades — even centuries!
So when it comes right down to it, while I think we can safely say that Jesus would not waterboard His enemies, this does not mean that in a sinful and chaotic world,
human governments should not.
Yeah yeah, we know that
human government has a long history of backing up religious establishments for just this reason — to keep the lowers orders in line.
(Isaiah 48:17, 18) Soon, Jehovah will bring
all human governments to an end.
For always there have been two ways of falling foul of
a human government: one by being a rogue and the other by being a prophet.
Many people believe that the current global order is the final form of
human government, a natural end point of sociocultural evolution.
In discussing the effects of one the last huge government - funded research projects, the Human