The duty of a lesser magistrate or county official replacing himself between the people he represents and the higher public official that has violated the God given rights of the people who has become a tyrant.
(Declaration of Independence) We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government...
We establish government not to grant us rights but to secure what God has already granted. God establishes all governmental authority but that authority is given to the people. The people then establish local leaders and then they establish higher magistrates.
Interposition is not rebellion. Rebellion except in very extreme circumstances usually results in anarchy or a blood bath. Interposition on the other hand is not absolute submission to authority. It’s a middle ground position.
Romans 13. Whoever resists government resists the ordinance of God. Terror to evildoers and rewards good doers. All the powers that be are of God. Hosea 8:4 says “they have set up kings but not by me.” Is that consistent? God’s will has not been consulted in the choice of those kings. Paul wrote Romans sitting in jail at Corinth. There are times when we disobey government. Acts 5 says we must obey God rather than man. Romans 13 assumes a standard of good and evil. It doesn’t address the situation where the government does the opposite.
Justified in disobeying. Hebrew midwives in Exodus 1. Daniel did not eat and drink king’s wine nor his friends bowing down to statue or Daniel not obeying king’s commandment to not pray to any other gods. Ester interposes for the Jews before the king of Persia.
1 Samuel 14:43-46. Saul gives a commandment not to eat or drink anything until battle is over. Jonathan didn’t hear command and ate some honey. Saul was going to kill him. The people (Congregation of Israel) said should Jonathan die who has wrought this great victory. So the people rescued Jonathan.
2 Chronicles 10 Israel came to Reheboam and told him he was grevious with taxes, etc. Reheboam forsook the counsel and decided to follow the young men’s advice and made it worse for the Israelites. The people responded by seceding to the 10 northern kingdoms. In chapter 11 Reheboam raises an army to bring back northern Israel. God says to not go to war and says “this thing (act of secession) is done of me.”
Thomas Aquinas says a king can become a tyrant either by usurping authority or using legal power in illegal ways. The Christian is not obligated to obey a tyrant. But it still might be wise to obey anyway. It should not be done for light causes. If the king suppresses the rebellion he might become more tyrannical than he was before or if you do succeed then what comes next? The people that come in after him might think the same thing is going to happen to them and so they might become just as tyrannical as the king before. So to prevent this from happening, overturning tyranny should not be the private actions of a few but rather by public authority.
The kings and puritans argued about the lines of authority. The king said “God has delegated authority to me, I in turn delegate it to the lesser magistrates and they rule over the people.” The Puritans said, “God has all governmental authority, he has delegated it to the people, they have delegated authority to the lesser rulers, and they have established the king.”
(Declaration of Independence) But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security...
King George is unfit to be ruler of a free people. The Americans declared independence and Britain attempting to suppress that independence was a war of aggression upon America. The Colonists did everything they could to appeal to the King and lesson their grievances. They had right to self-government under the colonial charters. These has been violated or utterly revoked. They said parliament has authority only over those areas where they have representatives. Since the colonies do not have representation therefore parliament has no authority over them.
(Declaration of Independence) We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government...
We establish government not to grant us rights but to secure what God has already granted. God establishes all governmental authority but that authority is given to the people. The people then establish local leaders and then they establish higher magistrates.
Interposition is not rebellion. Rebellion except in very extreme circumstances usually results in anarchy or a blood bath. Interposition on the other hand is not absolute submission to authority. It’s a middle ground position.
Romans 13. Whoever resists government resists the ordinance of God. Terror to evildoers and rewards good doers. All the powers that be are of God. Hosea 8:4 says “they have set up kings but not by me.” Is that consistent? God’s will has not been consulted in the choice of those kings. Paul wrote Romans sitting in jail at Corinth. There are times when we disobey government. Acts 5 says we must obey God rather than man. Romans 13 assumes a standard of good and evil. It doesn’t address the situation where the government does the opposite.
Justified in disobeying. Hebrew midwives in Exodus 1. Daniel did not eat and drink king’s wine nor his friends bowing down to statue or Daniel not obeying king’s commandment to not pray to any other gods. Ester interposes for the Jews before the king of Persia.
1 Samuel 14:43-46. Saul gives a commandment not to eat or drink anything until battle is over. Jonathan didn’t hear command and ate some honey. Saul was going to kill him. The people (Congregation of Israel) said should Jonathan die who has wrought this great victory. So the people rescued Jonathan.
2 Chronicles 10 Israel came to Reheboam and told him he was grevious with taxes, etc. Reheboam forsook the counsel and decided to follow the young men’s advice and made it worse for the Israelites. The people responded by seceding to the 10 northern kingdoms. In chapter 11 Reheboam raises an army to bring back northern Israel. God says to not go to war and says “this thing (act of secession) is done of me.”
Thomas Aquinas says a king can become a tyrant either by usurping authority or using legal power in illegal ways. The Christian is not obligated to obey a tyrant. But it still might be wise to obey anyway. It should not be done for light causes. If the king suppresses the rebellion he might become more tyrannical than he was before or if you do succeed then what comes next? The people that come in after him might think the same thing is going to happen to them and so they might become just as tyrannical as the king before. So to prevent this from happening, overturning tyranny should not be the private actions of a few but rather by public authority.
The kings and puritans argued about the lines of authority. The king said “God has delegated authority to me, I in turn delegate it to the lesser magistrates and they rule over the people.” The Puritans said, “God has all governmental authority, he has delegated it to the people, they have delegated authority to the lesser rulers, and they have established the king.”
(Declaration of Independence) But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security...
King George is unfit to be ruler of a free people. The Americans declared independence and Britain attempting to suppress that independence was a war of aggression upon America. The Colonists did everything they could to appeal to the King and lesson their grievances. They had right to self-government under the colonial charters. These has been violated or utterly revoked. They said parliament has authority only over those areas where they have representatives. Since the colonies do not have representation therefore parliament has no authority over them.
