Tag: The State

Economics

Free Market Law

I want to direct your weekend reading to three excellent passages from my good friend Daniel Krawisz. Part 1: Free ...

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Christian Ethics

Caesar and God in Context

LibertarianChristians.com is pleased to welcome Christopher Bevis in our next guest post, originally published on LewRockwell.com, entitled “Caesar and God ...

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Culture

The Halo Effect: Why People Trust the State

This is a guest post by Caleb Furlough. He received his PhD from North Carolina State University in Human Factors ...

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Christian Worldview

The Commands of God versus the State

A more baseless assumption, one more in direct conflict with God’s teaching, was never made by man, than the idea ...

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Politics

Sacraments of the State

All States have a vested interest in clothing themselves in a religious veneer or a “civil religion,” but this does ...

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Christian Ethics

Should Christians Call on the State to End Gun Violence?

This is a guest post by Kollin Fields. Kollin is an Adjunct Professor of History, and a Ph.D. candidate in ...

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One of the more overlooked ways in which Jesus brought God’s ethical ideal into full bloom — or as Matthew 5:17 puts it, one way he “fulfilled” the Old Testament law and prophets — was by reorganizing God’s followers from a nation into a church. He denationalized them, transforming them from a typical earthly kingdom into the transnational, interethnic, nongovernmental, nonviolent, geographically dispersed organization we call the universal church. For these reasons, Jesus was an anti-nationalist which makes Christian Nationalism antithetical to the Christian faith.
Christian Worldview

Jesus was an Anti-Nationalist

One of the more overlooked ways in which Jesus brought God’s ethical ideal into full bloom — or as Matthew ...

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Essential Reading

Josephus on the Origin of the State

In The Antiquities, Josephus mentions that the first human government was built by Nimrod, the mighty hunter from the book ...

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Christian Worldview

Violence Will Not Save Us

As I have previously written, the early Christian virtue of patience (and therefore non-violence) and the libertarian Non-Aggression Principle are ...

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Christian Worldview

Ministers, Submission, and Partisanship

"There is not a word of intimation in the Sacred Scriptures that indicate that it is the duty of any ...

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Christian Worldview

“Give Us a King”

This article continues a series of weekly posts originally authored by David Lipscomb, an important figure in the Churches of ...

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Christian Worldview

The Seen and Unseen Kingdoms

In this entry, Lipscomb continues his thesis that ordinances of God are not all intended to be carried out by ...

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Christian Worldview

Are States the Ministers of God?

A common objection to the idea that the state is founded in rebellion against God is the language of the ...

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Christian Worldview

Does Romans 13 Justify Nero, Pharoah, or Nimrod?

Lipscomb approaches the issue with a new tact this time around, and brings up Romans 13 in the process. He ...

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Christian Worldview

David Lipscomb Against Union Conscription

This article continues a series of weekly posts originally authored by David Lipscomb, an important figure in the Churches of ...

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Christian Worldview

David Lipscomb Against Confederate Conscription Acts

Notable in this piece is the way in which Lipscomb and his co-authors argue for their firm non-violent stance. They ...

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Christian Worldview

The Spirit of the Church and of the World-Powers

Having stridently argued for the position that the kingdoms of the world are not of God through both Old and ...

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Christian Worldview

Babylon: The Archetype of the State

We wish to call attention to the biblical use of the term Babylon. It is given in Scripture as the ...

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Christian Worldview

John’s Revelation and World-Powers

Lipscomb now addresses the symbols in Revelation in greater detail, ultimately to level a scathing indictment of the 19th-century church. ...

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Christian Worldview

God’s Kingdom and the World’s Kingdoms are Separate

This article continues a series of weekly posts originally authored by David Lipscomb, an important figure in the Churches of ...

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Christian Worldview

Jesus’ Temptations and World-Powers

This article continues a series of weekly posts originally authored by David Lipscomb, an important figure in the Churches of ...

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Christian Worldview

The Church of God Among the Nations

This article continues a series of weekly posts originally authored by David Lipscomb, an important figure in the Churches of ...

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Christian Worldview

The Old Testament Kings and God’s Justice

In our investigations we have found that God, at all times, kept a wide gulf of separation between his Jewish ...

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Christian Worldview

Biblical Origins of Human Government

This article continues a series of weekly posts originally authored by David Lipscomb, an important figure in the Churches of ...

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Christian Worldview

God’s Provisions of Authority

This article continues a series of weekly posts originally authored by David Lipscomb, an important figure in the Churches of ...

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Christian Worldview

The Church of Christ and World-Powers

This article begins a new series of weekly posts authored by David Lipscomb, an important figure in the Churches of ...

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Christian Worldview

The Glaring Inconsistency

The following article was published by David Lipscomb in The Gospel Advocate on roughly January 30, 1866 — not even a ...

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Libertarianism

Transcending Identity Politics

We sometimes hear conversations which contain claims like, “Jews are so sneaky,” or “Christians are so intolerant,” or “Asians are ...

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Libertarianism

Was Jesus a Socialist?

Was Jesus a socialist? Was he revolting against wealth and money itself? Or was he actually challenging people who use ...

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resident alien
Culture

Are You a “Resident Alien” or Have You Gone Native?

In his book The Patient Ferment of the Early Church, Alan Kreider discusses how the early Christians lived in tension ...

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