THESIS 45: THE STATE DOES NOT SERVE GOD SELF-CONSCIOUSLY

Nevertheless,[171] these same "ministers" -- kings and leaders of political (polis-centered) systems -- can also be identified with Satan himself.[172] The "State" is only an unwitting "minister."[173] By definition, it is impossible for a State (a system of institutionalized violence and revenge) to self-consciously obey God's Law and serve Christ.[174]

Exposition

Implications

What this Thesis means; how it should affect your life; how our lives should affect the world.

Clarifications

What this Thesis does NOT mean; how it should NOT affect your life; how the Old World distorted the truth.

Confirmations

How "mainstream" evangelical or orthodox commentators have confirmed this Thesis (without accepting the overall paradigm)

Deliberations

Readers' questions, complaints, allegations, flames, threats

         -- answered, adjusted, denied, blessed, filed.

Prooftexts

171. #44

172. Isaiah 14:11-15; Ezekiel 28

173. Isaiah 10:7; #94, #81; #76

174. Romans 12:17-21; #80

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