anotherlife
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Really? Then how do you explain this. Governments frequently create large number of laws that can't be understood let alone obeyed without hiring very expensive teams of lawyers which you can't afford. So you are bound to go wrong. As a result you keep clearing various debts as per the passage above, only to trigger the government to double them every time you try to clear them. How do you resolve this contradiction against God's law, without Pumpkin Row's points?In case anyone ever wondered how God felt about it when Nero was slaughtering Jews, or Hitler was gassing the Jews. Your argument is silly, because it's an argument for ethics to be applied based on civilization and geographical location, in which case you support "Might Makes Right" ethics or Arbitrary Ethics, rather than Objective Ethics.God always says to follow the laws. Anyone breaking the laws is committing a sin. God hates sin. Therefore God is for a wall.
What God actually said was that none shall be before God, and when he was referring to Law, he was referring to his own law, not the Laws of some ruler, especially since there were rulers in opposition to God. God even stated when the Israelites asked for a king, that they were not rejecting the Judges, but rejecting God. God saw the use of a ruler as placing one before him. In the same passage in which you would be referring to(
Romans 13:1-14), God plainly states that there is no authority before God. What was being said is that he is always the governing authority. In other words, the rule of man doesn't exist to God.
Galatians 3:11 ESV
Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”
Acts 5:29 ESV / 77 helpful votes
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
In fact, throughout the New Testament, Jesus and his Apostles are fighting the "Law" every step away, the Pharisees were ENEMIES, as they were trying to hinder Jesus, and had twisted the laws to suit their own ends.
You're misinterpreting the bible.
God says to obey the gov't. as he put it there.
Bible instructs followers to obey the government
Romans 13:1-2 says: "Obey the government, for God is the One who has put it there. There is no government anywhere that God has not placed in power. So those who refuse to obey the law of the land are refusing to obey God, and punishment will follow."
Nowhere does the bible say that God says to obey his law and ignore man's laws. You're making that shit up. You will always lose against me in Bible studies. I used to lead a bible study group.
Game. Set. Match. Thanks for playing.