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Old 08-02-2005, 11:18 PM
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Originally posted by Peter
Ditto with one qualification: The government loses its privledge to bear the sword if it does not act biblically. Tyrants are not the ordinance of God.
We must stress and attack the unbiblical assumption that Paul was writing descriptively, rather than prescriptively. For, if he really did call Nero "good" then Paul has undermined his own system of ethics.
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