Nov 26, 2017
At creation, God designed humanity to be self-regulating and live under the reign of God while ruling over the earth (Gen. 1:28). After sin, God instituted a structure of governance, run by people, to keep order and control chaos like anarchy. Temporary government mirrors the eternal government of God. Governments are supported by taxes and primarily made to bless the obedient, help the helpless, instruct the ignorant, and rehabilitate or remove the rebellious. The order of authority in life is; self, family, church, city, state, nation, God. While not all are equal, there are many types of governance—theocratic, democratic, monarchy, dictatorship, socialistic, communistic, etc. All authority is borrowed from God and those in authority will give account to the authority-Giver (Rom. 14:10-12).