God gave a very limited role to the state. As a believer you will only see this as a fact if you approach life believing that Gods word really is the standard. That Jesus really is Lord of more than our hearts. I don't think we go around and deny what Gods word says. With our history stolen from us we just think that its normal for modern governments to do whatever they want. Most of our arguing is our disgust at over the evil , that governments try and promote. One of our modern errors is that we ,who are called believers, think that if someone doesn't claim Jesus as Lord then they are free to just color willy nilly outside the lines.
We are conditioned that when we see injustices, that something should be done to rectify them. Who should that be? Well of course, the government should. In believers being swept along with mans attempt to create utopia, in spite of God never even giving us a hint that this is something we should pursue. (Gods Law makes it clear that God reserves administering perfect justice for himself.) By this method we Christian's have give more and more freedom for the governments to limit our freedoms. All in the name of fairness and justice.
Must We Obey Interior Design Regulations?
Daily Article by Art Carden
...I recently read Francis Schaeffer's compelling A Christian Manifesto, and it argues that there are situations in which we have not just the right but the moral duty to disobey the state....
Let's go ahead and take Romans 13 as the standard by which the state's justice is measured, and assume for the sake of argument that states and state-like organizations are restricted to punishing evil and rewarding good....
Do regulations on interior design punish evil and reward good? Certainly not. One justification for these regulations is that they prevent unscrupulous unlicensed designers from committing crimes against their unwitting customers — say, by recommending venetian blinds that don't match the curtains —......
So what is rewarded and punished in a regime where interior design is regulated? It's actually the perverse opposite of what the state is enjoined to do in the Bible. The state punishes those who do good (those who provide services that customers are willing to pay for at a price they are willing to pay) and rewards those who do evil (those who use the coercive power of the state to prevent people from entering the marketplace and earning a living)....
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