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Add a note optional. Having trouble logging into your account? Try resetting your password. If that doesn't work, please contact our customer service team. Citizens are to submit to the governing authorities 1 Pe Children are to obey parents Eph Believers were to honor spiritual authorities such as apostles who demanded compliance on the basis of their commission from the Lord.
There are exceptions. When a person in authority violates the trust granted by God, the source of all authority, the subordinate is free, indeed mandated, "to obey God rather than man" Acts The apostle Peter provides the clearest example of what is called civil disobedience.
In his epistle he encourages disciples of Christ to submit to governing authorities 1 Peter According to Luke, however, when the governing authorities commanded Peter to cease preaching, he disobeyed Acts The issue facing contemporary Christians is how God exercises his authority in the spiritual realm, that is, the church. In the Old Testament, the answer was clear. God exercised his authority through prophets, priests, and kings.
At the time of Christ, the disciples submitted to the lordship of God the Father through obedience to Jesus. Christ, then, delegated authority to the apostles, who directed the affairs of the primitive church. When Christ comes again, he will reign from a new throne in the new city. How does God in Christ exercise his authority in the dispensation between his comings?
Has the authority of the apostles been transmitted through the tradition or by episcopal consecration? The evangelical response to that question, uncovered in the Protestant Reformation, is soLam Scriptura. Evangelical theology appeals to the authority of Scripture because it views the Bible as the written Word of God, pointing beyond itself to the absolute authority, the living and transcendent Word of God.
God exercises authority over the church through the Scriptures, which impart authoritative truth. The Bible issues definitive directives. It offers an authoritative norm by which all doctrine and principles must be shaped for both individual believers and the church.
The Bible is a record and explanation of divine revelation that is both complete sufficient and comprehensible perspicuous ; that is to say, it contains all that the church needs to know in this world for its guidance in the way of salvation and service.
Plus Toggle navigation. Password Assistance. It is a shame that in English we make no such distinction. Even in the translations which should have known better use the translation of the two words interchangeably even arbitrarily so that the truth conveyed in the original language is lost. Authority means right, privilege given to someone by another.
It refers not to power but to position! A policeman cannot say that he has power dunamis to stop traffic. He would have to be incredibly strong to stop even the smallest of cars by his own strength. Though he has not the physical or personal strength to stop traffic he is given authority under the law to commandeer traffic. He can literally stop traffic by his power exousia , that is his right and authority. To be sure we do not have power dunamis over Satan.
We can never by our effort or energy stop him. Yet we have been given authority exousia over him in Jesus name and by virtue of the testimony that we belong to Jesus. When we are given the promise of salvation in John we are promised power exousia to become the sons of God.
That means that we are given the right, honor, or privilege to be called sons of God.
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