Your assumption is that just because God either allowed someone seen as being evil, or ordained someone who was evil to rule, either by vote, fraud or usurpation, that we are to honor that position?
I heartily disagree. And it is nothing about pride at all.
Should the Jews have honored Hitler? How about Mussolini? "Wishful thinking, megalomania, and Fascist ideology gradually overwhelmed Mussolini's common sense." He was insane too. Should they have sucked up to him just because of his position?
I don't think so. It has nothing to do with pride. It has to do with conviction of right and wrong.
How about the Pope that killed all of those Christians? Should they have bowed down and kissed his ring? They would have had to deny Christ to do it.
Hi ludicrous,
I'm just repeating what the Scriptures say. If you have an argument with that you'll have to take it up with the Author. God's word doesn't make any exceptions when it gives this command to us as regards the 'kind' of people who are in authority over us.
Further, this issue with President Obama is not in any way shape or form a fair comparison to the likes of Mussolini or Hitler. Quite frankly, if we look back over all the presidencies that have led our country, President Obama doesn't stand as this terrible government of the Antichrist that so many are wont to claim.
Finally, no, you haven't taken the lesson of Daniel to heart. Daniel never bowed down to the statue of Nebedchudnezzer. He was able to honor God, but in doing so, also honoring the authority of the king's rightful place.
You are, of course, free to disagree with me. Many do. But as regards this issue of showing respect for those in authority over us, you aren't disagreeing with me, but with God.
As I gave example, Paul lived under one of the most vile governments of that day, but as a born again believer you won't find that he spent a lot time working up the people in some cauldron of hate and anger towards their government.
Yes, it is pride that won't allow us to merely accept who we are and understand that no matter who's sitting in the chair at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. our commander in chief is our God and He has asked us, as ambassadors of His Son to be respectful in our demeanor towards others, whether neighbor or king, in our dealings with them.
I honestly just don't understand this thinking that some healthcare law is the working of an evil man to destroy our nation. You want to pillory those who have worked to destroy our nation, then let's talk about who was in office when the welfare state was created for individuals and not also providing those people with a way out of that place rather than fostering a whole generation of families that now live on it.
Don't you guys get it? President Obama is not evil and just for the record I didn't vote for him. But he is a man who was duly elected (twice) to run our nation and I believe that the interest of his heart is that he wants to do what he honestly sees and understands as the right thing for the people over which he governs. He is not some wicked evil antichrist. He is not some Mussolini or Hitler or Idi Amin. He is just the President of the United States and I believe his highest agenda is to do what he thinks is right by 'we the people'. The common man has long been crying for some sort of help against rising medical costs and he went in and did what he thought best to answer our complaint. Is it going to turn out to ultimately give the help that he is hoping that it will be? Well, in time, just like with welfare, we'll find out.
Some have called all those who voted for him 'idiots'. I don't. I think that they are people who saw promise in a leader and from all the polls that I've seen, still do.
I must say that your pulling in to play all these truly wicked men to draw some comparison between their roles and the role of President Obama is really the idiocy. Those examples you gave are just light years away from being any fair comparison to what our President has done and what our response to his presidency should be.
God bless you.
In Christ, Ted