XPost: alt.religion.christian.east-orthodox, alt.politics.religion,   
   soc.rights.human   
   XPost: alt.christnet.ethics   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 20:51:00 +0300, "Oleg Smirnov"    
   wrote:   
      
   >Steve Hayes,    
   >   
   >> The Serbian Orthodox Church, the largest religious community in the   
   >> country, has been divided over these protests from the very beginning.   
   >> While the overwhelming majority of its bishops have chosen to remain   
   >> silent, there have been isolated voices within the episcopate both for   
   >> and against the protests. Students of the Faculty of Theology in   
   >> Belgrade have joined the protests, and individual theologians have   
   >> expressed their support as well.   
   >   
   >| Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is   
   >| no authority except that which God has established. The authorities   
   >| that exist have been established by God. (Romans 13)   
   >   
   >Those "priests as freedom fighters" are heretics.   
   >   
   >Any authority is a good from God, it's established by God.   
      
   See here:   
      
      
      
   Saint Paul, in his letter to the Romans, famously writes:   
      
   Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is   
   no authority except from God, and those that exist have been   
   instituted by God. Therefore he who resists the authorities resists   
   what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. (Rom   
   13:1-2)   
      
   Seems straightforward, no? St Paul wants the Romans in his communities   
   to obey the state, because states get their authority from God.   
      
   The only problem is, because Saint Paul did not speak English, this is   
   not what he actually wrote. This is a translation—specifically, the   
   Revised Standard Version. Although I prefer the RSV to any other   
   translation as a matter of course, it is still a translation, and   
   therefore—like all translations into English!—an act of theft, a   
   necessarily partial and selective transmission of the author’s actual   
   words.   
      
   Read it here, because some of the characters do not reproduce on   
   Usenet.   
      
      
      
      
   --   
   Steve Hayes   
   http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm   
   http://khanya.wordpress.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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