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Personally, the foundation of my Christian Anarchism is recognizing that all people are images of God, and in Eden, we were given all the rest of creation to rule โ€” but not each other. โ€œDo not stealโ€ and โ€œdo not murderโ€ apply to everyone, and as the first is exactly what states must do to exist and the second is what they usually end up doing at some point (often to enforce the first), theyโ€™re not of God. Thereโ€™s a lot more to be said about this and I hope you fall down the rabbit hole! The Libertarian Christian Institute is a great resource; check out this article addressing Romans 13 from there:
Libertarian Christian Institute
Proof-texting Political Authority and Romans 13 | Libertarian Christian Institute
There's a problem with proof-texting political authority and Romans 13. This article follows from my last post addressing the Russia-Ukraine W...
 The guy I quoted in the original post has a very good podcast, even with several episodes addressing Romans 13 in particular. Hereโ€™s just the first one:
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The Biblical Anarchy Podcast โ€ข Ep. 21: Romans 13 and Other Objections to Christian Anarchism, with John Odermatt โ€ข Listen on Fountain
In this episode, you get to hear an interview of me on John Odermatt's Finding Freedom Podcast, part of the Lions of Liberty podcast network. We ta...

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Also, โ€œChrist is Kingโ€ is one of those things you hear so frequently theyโ€™ve lost some meaning. Fresh in its time, it was more clearly understood that if Christ is King, no one else can be. This is why the establishment Jews that were in power at the time were killing Jesusโ€™ contemporaries (Matthew 2:1-18) and trying to convince Rome that the Christian movement was a threat (John 19:12), and why the chant when Pilate offered Jesusโ€™ release was โ€œwe have no king but Caesarโ€ (John 19:15) Itโ€™s true that the Christian movement recognized Jesusโ€™ authority and that that is a threat to Roman authority, just not in the way it was being pitched. Usually that kind of thing goes along with a violent insurrection. But the kingdom of God was to grow in a different way, through service and love. More on how states are a rejection of Godโ€™s authority: 1 Samuel 8