The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Romans 13

So, if a government official demanded that all male infants be slaughtered they would obey that order, right? No? on what authority would they disobey the order? What basis do these people choose to obey the magistrate or ignore his/her orders? If a magistrate demands one sin, no Christian has the obligation to obey that order. If a magistrate orders that Christians do not do what they are obligated to do the likewise they have no authority to obey that order. No magistrate has the power nor authority to forbid the gathering of God's people to offer up worship to God; no they are under GOD'S command to gather together and worship the one true God. Your "friends" are practicing "situation ethics" never mind wresting the Scriptures to their own destruction. Thousands of believers have lost their lives resisting tyrants who required them to disobey God. We are in the last days and shall be until the Lord returns and in those days there will be a great falling away which is God's way of winnowing the wheat and the chaff and dividing the sheep and the goats. I have no desire to be a goat or to be swept away as a useless piece of chaff. I choose to fight the good fight until the end by God's grace and strength. That includes resisting godless tyrants who are serving as magistrates on this earth who unknowingly serve the one true living God to either bring good upon God's people or to bring judgement upon the wicked or to bring the wayward elect to repentance.