THESIS 51: STATISM AT THE TIME OF CHRIST

Greco-Roman religion was worship and service to the State (polis), its legal interests and customs,[193] the wealth it secured,[194] and the demons behind it.[195] Rulers were not just in a different economic class from the masses; they were considered to be in a different class of being, a pseudo-ontological participation with the "principalities and powers" in a continuum of evolutionary progress in the "Chain of Being." The Early Church thus spoke of politicians (humans) and powers (demons) as a unity.[196] Roman Law has served as the cradle of the Church.[197]

Exposition

Implications

What this Thesis means; how it should affect your life; how our lives should affect the world.

Clarifications

What this Thesis does NOT mean; how it should NOT affect your life; how the Old World distorted the truth.

Confirmations

How "mainstream" evangelical or orthodox commentators have confirmed this Thesis (without accepting the overall paradigm)

Deliberations

Readers' questions, complaints, allegations, flames, threats

         -- answered, adjusted, denied, blessed, filed.

Prooftexts

193. Acts 16:21; 17:7

194. Acts 19:23-28

195. Acts 17:18,22; cf. 8:9-11; 14:11-16

196. Romans 13:1-4; Ephesians 6:12; Colossians 2:15; Ephesians 1:21

197. Isaiah 44:27-28; 60:16; Daniel 2:34-35,40-44; Galatians 4:4; #94.

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