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- From: adams@spss.com (Steve Adams)
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- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers
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- Date: 11 Jan 93 21:08:02 GMT
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- au500@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Linda Zinn) writes:
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- >In a previous article, adams@spss.com (Steve Adams) says:
- >
- >>Bill Clinton is NOT the anti-Christ. Therefore, Christians are to follow
- >>the laws he signs, per Paul's letter to the Romans. The only resistance
- >>should be to laws that compell us to personally violate God's will.
- >
- >I've been following this thread for a few days now, and I think Steve has
- >exhibited one of the cooler heads and a loving, noninflammatory approach.
- >Although I agree with his conclusion, I have to disagree with this
- >reasoning. Romans 12 discusses various details of God's plan for order in the
- >church. For example, "...all members have not the same office" (Rom. 12:4);
- >"Be kindly affectioned one to another....(Rom. 12:10); etc.
- >
- >I don't believe that the "higher powers" referred to in Rom 13:1 can
- >possibly refer to government leaders; rather, it seems to refer to
- >authorities in the Body of Christ, elsewhere referred to as ruling elders,
- >etc. This concept is a hard one for modern Christians to swallow because
- >we have seen so many examples of the misuse of position or authority
- >among Christian leaders. That doesn't make God wrong...just points out the
- >weakness of men.
- >
- >If you look at Romans 13:4, continuing the context of verse 1, it says,
- >"He is a minister of God to thee for good." Was Richard Nixon
- >a minister of God to us for good? Was any secular leader, just by virtue
- >of the fact that he was elected?
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- Romans 13:6-7 seems to imply that he is talking about government in
- general, as they speak of taxes, honor, etc.
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- Discussions of Nixon's goodness can be carried out on talk.politics.misc...
- :-)
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- -Steve
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