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Episode 521: Flirting with Fascism & Can Christians Be Patriots? with Richard Mouw

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God's Purposes for Government

In Romans 13, Paul says that god has ordained governments to reward those who do good and punish those who do evil. And if you disobey hitler, you're disobeying the will of god according to paul. In other waysi is another way of saying that the government has been given authority by god,. Obviously, to wield the sword and to function in certain ways. But one authority the government does not have is it does not get toe in what is good and evil that comes from god. So we are held to that standard, regardless of the government that we are under. i found this really interesting ssection where you talk about the scope of government. It jumped

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