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Tell me why do christians and patriots support anti american and antichrist nfl-games?well? snopes10/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Nevertheless, they are both regarded as being under God. The church is not to maintain a standing army, and the state is not to do evangelism or to administer the sacraments. Separation of church and state assumed a division of labor the church has its job, and the state has its job. Historically that meant that the church was answerable to God and the state was answerable to God. I think it is a marvelous structure in the United States of America that does not allow for the state to rule the church or the church to rule the state. I personally believe in a separation of spheres of authority between the church and state. We have another responsibility, and this is the one that sometimes brings us into controversial areas. ![]() We are also given the duty of praying for earthly governments that they may fulfill the tasks God has given to them. ![]() But our basic posture toward government, according to the New Testament, is to be submissive and obedient citizens of the state. Anytime a civil government requires a Christian to do what God forbids or forbids them to do what God commands, then the person must disobey. There are occasions on which Christians not only may but must disobey the civil magistrates. That doesn't mean a slavish obedience to the civil magistrates. We are told to bend over backwards to honor the king or be obedient to the civil magistrates. Given this function, the Christian understands that government is ordained of God, and so Christians, first of all, are called to respect whatever it is that God institutes and ordains.įor God's sake we are called to be model citizens. The function of government is to restrain evil and to maintain, uphold, and protect the sanctity of life and of property. And most theologians in the history of the church have said that human evil is the reason even corrupt government is better than no government at all. The great theologian Augustine said that government is a necessary evil, that it is necessary because of evil. For example, Romans 13 elaborates on the origin and institution of government as something that God ordains. The New Testament gives us some broad principles on how we are supposed to respond to government. ![]()
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