THESIS 75: POLITICAL AUTHORITY AND KINGDOM CITIZENSHIP

Christians are not to exercise authority, lordship, or the force of coercion over others,[269] nor seek positions of power in the polis;[270] our citizenship is in heaven.[271]

Exposition

Can A Christian Be an American Citizen?

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

269. Mark 10:42-45

270. Revelation 18:4

271. Philippians 3:20

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