The following commandments from the
Holy Bible describe the relationship that God requires believers
to have in relation to those who are not believers.
"Do you not know that friendship
with the world is enmity with God?
Whoever therefore
wants to be a friend [“citizen”,
“resident”,
“taxpayer”,
“inhabitant”,
or "subject" under a king or political ruler] of the world [or
any man-made kingdom other than God's Kingdom] makes himself
an enemy of God. "
[James
4:4, Bible, NKJV]
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“You
shall make no covenant [contract or franchise] with them [foreigners,
pagans], nor with their [pagan government] gods [laws or judges].
They shall not dwell in your land [and you shall not dwell in
theirs by becoming a
“resident” in the process of contracting with them],
lest they make you sin against Me [God]. For if
you serve their gods [under
contract or agreement
or franchise], it will surely be a snare to you.”
[Exodus
23:32-33, Bible, NKJV]
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"Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is
this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and
to keep
oneself unspotted from the world [the obligations and
concerns of the world]. "
[James
1:27, Bible, NKJV]
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"You shall have no other gods
[including political rulers, governments, or Earthly laws] before
Me [or My
commandments]."
[Exodus
20:3, Bible, NKJV]
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“Then all the elders of Israel
gathered together and came to Samuel [the priest in a Theocracy]
at Ramah, and said to him, ‘Look, you [the priest within a theocracy]
are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways.
Now make us a king
[or political ruler] to judge us like all the nations
[and be OVER them]’.
“But the thing displeased
Samuel when they said, ‘Give
us a king [or political ruler] to judge us.’ So Samuel
prayed to the Lord.
And the Lord said to
Samuel, ‘Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to
you; for they have rejected Me [God], that I should not reign
over them. According to all the works which
they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt,
even to this day—with
which they have forsaken Me [God as their ONLY KIng, Lawgiver,
and Judge] and served other gods—so they are doing to you also
[government or political rulers becoming the object
of idolatry].”
[1
Sam. 8:4-8, Bible, NKJV]
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"Do not walk in the
statutes of your
fathers [the heathens], nor observe their judgments, nor
defile yourselves with their [pagan government] idols. I am
the LORD your God: Walk in
My statutes,
keep My judgments, and do them; hallow My Sabbaths, and they
will be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I
am the LORD your God."
[Ezekial
20:10-20, Bible, NKJV]
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"Has the LORD as great delight
in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
As in obeying the voice of the LORD?
Behold, to obey
is better than sacrifice,
And to heed than the fat of rams.
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,
And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected
the Word [and Law] of the LORD,
He also has rejected you from being
king [and sovereign over your government and your public servants]."
[1
Sam. 15:22-23, Bible, NKJV]
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“For this is
the
covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those
days, says the LORD:
I will put
My laws
in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be
their God, and they shall be My people.”
[Heb.
8:10, Bible, NKJV]
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“Therefore,
my brethren, you also have become dead to the law [man's law]
through the body of Christ [by
shifting your legal domicile to the God's Kingdom],
that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from
the dead, that we should bear fruit [as
agents,
fiduciaries, and trustees] to God. For when we were
in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the
law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. But
now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what
we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the
Spirit [and newness of the law, God’s law] and not
in the oldness of
the letter.”
[Rom.
7:4-6, Bible, NKJV]
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“The wicked shall be turned into
hell, And all the nations [and peoples] that forget [or disobey]
God [or His commandments].”
[Psalms 9:17, Bible, NKJV]
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"Above all,
you must live as citizens
of heaven [INSTEAD of citizens of earth.
You can only be a citizen
of ONE place at a time because you can only have a domicile
in one place at a time], conducting yourselves
in a manner worthy of the Good News about Christ. Then, whether
I come and see you again or only hear about you, I will know
that you are standing together with one spirit and one purpose,
fighting together for the faith, which is the Good News."
[Philippians
1:27, Bible, NLT]
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“And when you saw that Nahash
king of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, ‘No,
but a king shall reign over us,’ when the Lord your God was
your king. [. . .]
And all the people said to
Samuel, “Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, that we
may not die; for
we have added to all
our sins the evil of asking a king [or political ruler above
us] for ourselves.”
[1
Sam. 12:12, 19, Bible, NKJV]
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“For whoever
does
the will of
God is My brother and My sister and mother.”
[Jesus, in
Mark 3:35, NKJV]
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"And have
no fellowship [or association] with the unfruitful works of
[government] darkness,
but rather reprove
[rebuke and expose] them."
[Eph.
5:11, Bible, NKJV]
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“But if you are led by the Spirit,
you are not under
the law [man's
law].”
[Gal.
5:18, Bible, NKJV]
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“Shall the
throne of iniquity [the U.S. Congress and the federal
judiciary], which devises evil by [obfuscating the] law
[to expand their jurisdiction and consolidate all economic
power in their hands by taking it away from the states],
have fellowship with You? They gather
together against the life of the righteous, and condemn
innocent blood [of "nontaxpayers" and
persons outside their jurisdiction, which is an act of
extortion and racketeering]. But the Lord has been my
defense, and my God the rock of my refuge. He has
brought on them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off
in their own wickedness;
the Lord our God
[and those who obey Him and
His word]
shall cut them off [from power and from receiving
illegal bribes cleverly disguised by an obfuscated law as
legitimate "taxes"].”
[Psalms
94:20-23, Bible, NKJV.
QUESTION FOR
DOUBTERS: Who else BUT Congress and the
judiciary can devise "evil by law"?]
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"Come out
from among them [the unbelievers and
government idolaters]
And be separate, says the Lord.
Do not touch [or contract with] what is unclean,
And I will receive you.
I will be a Father to you,
And you shall be my sons and daughters,
Says the Lord Almighty."
[2
Corinthians 6:17-18, Bible, NKJV]
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"Nevertheless,
God's solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this
inscription: 'The Lord knows those who are His,' and,
'Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord
must turn away
from [not associate with or subsidize] wickedness [wherever
it is found, and especially in government].' "
[2
Tim. 2:19, Bible, NKJV]
If you would like an exhaustive description
of requirements that God places upon Christians in relating to the
world, see:
