The Christian Citizen In A Complicated World

Scripture doesn’t give us all the details we’d like to know about church and state. For example, St. Paul said we must obey civil government since it’s ordained of God, operating as his agent of justice to punish wrong (Romans 13). This is especially problematic since we believe Nero ruled Rome at the time. Nero was a vile man, sexually deviant and a murderer. He had his own mother and a wife murd...