{"id":6290,"date":"2015-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/2015\/01\/01\/civil-disobedience-a-christian-view\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"civil-disobedience-a-christian-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/2015\/01\/01\/civil-disobedience-a-christian-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Disobedience: A Christian View"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn his work Does God Approve of Civil Disobedience?<\/em> (Sioux City, Iowa: Anchor Publications), scholar Wallace McLaughlin says confidently that \u201cGod does not
\n\tapprove of civil disobedience. If men who claim to speak for the churches say otherwise, then you may be sure that in their declarations you do not hear
\n\tthe voice of Christian churches, but of men engaging in purely human affairs under cover of a name which they are not entitled to use. For where the
\n\tdoctrines of men hold sway there is no Christian church.\u201d However, this sounds eerily similar to what the Lutheran and Catholic leaders told their flocks
\n\tduring the Nazi era.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tHouston Baptist University scholar\/educator Louis Markos, in his work From Achilles to Christ<\/em> (InterVarsity Press), gives the example of Sophocles\u2019 play
\n\tAntigone as an affirmation that there is a higher, universal, immortal law written in the heart, mind, and conscience of human-kind—a law that transcends
\n\tcivil penalty.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Antigone<\/em>, Creon, the governor of the state, has commanded that no one may bury his nephew, Polyneices, brother of Antigone. Antigone, though, defies her
\n\tuncle Creon\u2019s command and proceeds to spread burial dirt on Polyneices\u2019 body.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tEventually Creon encounters his niece Antigone and accuses her of breaking the law; Antigone responds that she was obeying a higher law written in our
\n\thearts, minds, and consciences: \u201cFor me it was not Zeus who made that order. Nor did that Justice who lives with the gods below mark out such laws to hold
\n\tamong mankind. Nor did I think your orders were so strong that you, a mortal man, could overrun the gods\u2019 unwritten and unfailing laws. Not now, nor
\n\tyesterday\u2019s they always live, and no one knows their origin in time.\u201d\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThis philosophy of nonviolent civil disobedience also has roots in the New Testament. For example, the apostles were warned that if they continued
\n\tpreaching and practicing the teaching of Christ, they would be imprisoned and perhaps executed. Despite the warnings, the apostles continued preaching and
\n\tliving the teachings of Christ; and they were unjustly imprisoned. The New Testament says they suffered imprisonment joyfully, for they were suffering for
\n\tthe Lord\u2019s sake. One might say the earliest Christians taught and practiced nonviolent civil disobedience.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tIndeed, as the New Testament teaches, Christians \u201cought to obey God rather than men\u201d (Acts 5:29, KJV).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In his work Does God Approve of Civil Disobedience? (Sioux City, Iowa: Anchor Publications), scholar Wallace McLaughlin says confidently that \u201cGod does not approve of civil disobedience. If men who claim to speak for the churches say otherwise, then you may be sure that in their declarations you do not hear the voice of Christian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[136],"class_list":["post-6290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-january-february-2015","tag-january-february-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}