Kingdom-mindedness

Worldly philosophy teaches that inflicting injury is necessary to deter evil. Human society has relied on injury, vengeance, and fear as instruments of order — enthroning them in weapons, armies, penal codes, and government force. When non-resistance is proposed, many cry out in fear that such teaching would upend civilization itself. But in reality, the reliance on injury has only perpetuated global violence and cruelty. Despite its failure, people continue to worship this grim idol — INJURY — through war machines and systems of punishment. The doctrine of Christian non-resistance challenges …

The idea of separation from the state and from all participation in civil affairs, was universal among Christians for the first two or three hundred years. That then they began to grow worldly, apostatized from fidelity to God, lost faith in him, formed alliance with the civil power, became supporters of human government and imbibed the spirit of the civil institutions with which they affiliated.

To vote or use the civil power is to use force and carnal weapons. Christians cannot use these. To do so is to do evil that good may come. This is specially forbidden to Christians. To do so is to fight God’s battles with the weapons of the evil one. To do so is to distrust God. The effective way for Christians to promote morality in a community, is, to stand aloof from the political strifes and conflicts, and maintain a pure and true faith in God, which is the only basis of true morality.

Coercion is not only a moral wrong; it is a theological usurpation and a political disease. We contend that coercion should be ended not merely because it is unpleasant or unjust, but because it violates the rightful supremacy of God, corrodes moral relationships among individuals, and undergirds oppressive institutions. We envision a society ordered by voluntary interactions under God’s ultimate authority.

You aren’t saved by faith; salvation is by allegiance alone. Rival Nations challenges those who merely “believe” in an intellectual-consent-only kind of way to reframe their understanding of the Bible’s teaching on faith as “allegiance” to Jesus, the risen, enthroned son of God.

In nothing is the degree of the contradiction which the lives of the men of our time have reached so striking, as in that phenomenon which forms the last means and expression of violence - in the universal military service.

Apply the teachings of Romans 12 to the State, and you will wreck the State; or apply Romans 13 to the church, and you will wreck the church.

In His name, all oppression shall cease. Whatever burdensome or oppressive nature taxation may have, its days are numbered. One day, we will inherit a world of true and unending freedom, free from all tyranny.

Thousands of years ago, megalomaniacs claimed to be gods in order to rule over their subjects. Once that stopped working, they claimed to be representatives of the gods in order to rule over their subjects. Once that stopped working, they claimed to be representatives of their subjects in order to rule over their subjects. One day that will stop working too. The propaganda will stop working eventually as more and more knees bow and tongues confess that Jesus Christ is King (Philippians 2:9-11).