John,<\/p>\n
If “rulers are not a terror to good deeds”, how does that coincide with laws which oppose speaking the truth?<\/p>\n
Brother Wendell<\/p>\n
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Hi Wendell: (1) that we should submit “to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake” (1Pet. 2:13) and John, If “rulers are not a terror to good deeds”, how does that coincide with laws which oppose speaking the truth? Brother Wendell ========== Hi Wendell: In that verse from Romans 13, Paul was speaking generally, and that is a good general rule.\u00a0 But he would have agreed with Peter’s two confessions: (1) that we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIn that verse from Romans 13, Paul was speaking generally, and that is a good general rule.\u00a0 But he would have agreed with Peter’s two confessions:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
\n(2) that when men make laws contrary to the will of God, then “we ought to obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29).
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