So in your logic.. What do you suggest the people of America do right now? Because I know the answer and it is why We are taxed, people raped and ripped stripped and ruined. .. So I know what your answer will be.. My advice to you turn off all the clickbait conspiraPorn online because it defies GOD since you're waiting for him to do something about it EDIT and .. SINCE GOD EMPOWERS THE STATE . MSM and BIG TECH maybe you should listen to their advice GET VAXXED etc.. GOD PUT THEM THERE to rule over YOU respect his wishes (Not trying to MOCK.. but that's your logic)
Turn off the clickbait conspiraporn because it defies God since you're waiting on Him to do something...
Subscribing to conspiracy theories and "waiting on God" are not mutually exclusive. God is not only perfectly capable of using ordinary people to accomplish His will, it's His primary way of operating in the world. If, for example, Q is right that there is a group of good guys working together to stop tyrannical governments, and these good guys end up being successful, then that's how God chose to work. (spoiler alert; Q is legit)
This idea of human action being incompatible with relying on God is related to the phenomenon of people being confused when Christians give thanks to God for a successful surgery; instead of, you know, thanking the surgeon. Christians realize that without God the surgeon wouldn't have the intelligence to pursue surgery in the first place. Furthermore, any doctor or surgeon has a hundred stories of patients who were goners for sure... who then "miraculously" recovered. That right there is God using individual people plus a touch of His own power to accomplish what humans alone could not. It's a matter of whether or not you can perceive God working.
God empowers the state... so you should get vaxxed... God put them there to rule over you
Another common misconception. Let's look at what the Bible says:
"Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: for he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour." Romans 13:1-7
This is the passage that most people turn to to argue that God says we should always submit to whatever governments tell us to do. Yet this is not what the passage says; note that it defines rulers as those who are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Logically, then, any government that promotes evil and punishes good is not a minister of God and not a legitimate ruler. But let's say this argument doesn't work for you. Even then this doesn't mean I should get vaxxed, because Big Tech, Big Pharma, and MSM are not the government. They're in bed with the government for sure, but they can't make law, they are not legislative bodies, therefore even with current law I don't have to "listen to their advice and get vaxxed". Obeying law and listening to someone's advice are not the same thing.
But let's say that tomorrow Congress passed a law mandating that everyone get vaxxed. I still don't have to obey what they say. Why? Because in America there is a power higher than Congress, the SC, and the President: The Constitution. This document makes it abundantly clear that our current government does not have the authority to do the tenth of what it's doing right now; it's operating well outside it's bounds. Throw in the fact that the current admin rigs and steal elections, and civil disobedience is not only biblical but constitutional as well. And it should go without saying that the Bible is a higher authority than the Constitution as well, so if the government mandated that I do something against God's Word then I have the right and duty as a Christian to refuse.
So in your logic.. What do you suggest the people of America do right now? Because I know the answer and it is why We are taxed, people raped and ripped stripped and ruined. .. So I know what your answer will be.. My advice to you turn off all the clickbait conspiraPorn online because it defies GOD since you're waiting for him to do something about it EDIT and .. SINCE GOD EMPOWERS THE STATE . MSM and BIG TECH maybe you should listen to their advice GET VAXXED etc.. GOD PUT THEM THERE to rule over YOU respect his wishes (Not trying to MOCK.. but that's your logic)
OK, a lot to unpack here.
Subscribing to conspiracy theories and "waiting on God" are not mutually exclusive. God is not only perfectly capable of using ordinary people to accomplish His will, it's His primary way of operating in the world. If, for example, Q is right that there is a group of good guys working together to stop tyrannical governments, and these good guys end up being successful, then that's how God chose to work. (spoiler alert; Q is legit)
This idea of human action being incompatible with relying on God is related to the phenomenon of people being confused when Christians give thanks to God for a successful surgery; instead of, you know, thanking the surgeon. Christians realize that without God the surgeon wouldn't have the intelligence to pursue surgery in the first place. Furthermore, any doctor or surgeon has a hundred stories of patients who were goners for sure... who then "miraculously" recovered. That right there is God using individual people plus a touch of His own power to accomplish what humans alone could not. It's a matter of whether or not you can perceive God working.
Another common misconception. Let's look at what the Bible says:
"Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: for he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour." Romans 13:1-7
This is the passage that most people turn to to argue that God says we should always submit to whatever governments tell us to do. Yet this is not what the passage says; note that it defines rulers as those who are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Logically, then, any government that promotes evil and punishes good is not a minister of God and not a legitimate ruler. But let's say this argument doesn't work for you. Even then this doesn't mean I should get vaxxed, because Big Tech, Big Pharma, and MSM are not the government. They're in bed with the government for sure, but they can't make law, they are not legislative bodies, therefore even with current law I don't have to "listen to their advice and get vaxxed". Obeying law and listening to someone's advice are not the same thing.
But let's say that tomorrow Congress passed a law mandating that everyone get vaxxed. I still don't have to obey what they say. Why? Because in America there is a power higher than Congress, the SC, and the President: The Constitution. This document makes it abundantly clear that our current government does not have the authority to do the tenth of what it's doing right now; it's operating well outside it's bounds. Throw in the fact that the current admin rigs and steal elections, and civil disobedience is not only biblical but constitutional as well. And it should go without saying that the Bible is a higher authority than the Constitution as well, so if the government mandated that I do something against God's Word then I have the right and duty as a Christian to refuse.