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David Lipscomb (1831–1917) was a religious minister, Christian pacifist, author and leader in the American Restoration Movement.
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βGod has always kept on earth a government of his ownβ¦In Eden the government was direct, individual and personal. God spoke directly to man and gave specific commands to be obeyed.β
βEvery one who honors and serves the human government and relies upon it, for good, more than he does upon the Divine government, worships and serves the creature more than he does the Creator.β
βAll the wars and strifes between tribes, races, nations, from the beginning until now, have been the result of man's effort to govern himself and the world, rather than to submit to the government of God.β
βHuman government, the embodied effort of man to rule the world without God, ruled over by "the prince of this world," the devil. Its mission is to execute wrath and vengeance here on earth. Human government bears the same relation to hell as the church bears to heaven.β
βIt is the duty of the Christian to submit to the human government in its office and work and to seek its destruction only by spreading the religion of Christ and so converting men from service to the earthly government to service to the heavenly one, and so, too, by removing the necessity for its existence and work. No violence, no sword, no bitterness or wrath can he use. The spread of the peaceful principles of the Savior, will draw men out of the kingdoms of earth into the kingdom of God.β
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βGod has always kept on earth a government of his ownβ¦In Eden the government was direct, individual and personal. God spoke directly to man and gave specific commands to be obeyed.β
David Lipscomb on Kingdom of God
βIt is the duty of the Christian to submit to the human government in its office and work and to seek its destruction only by spreading the religion of Christ and so converting men from service to the earthly government to service to the heavenly one, and so, too, by removing the necessity for its existence and work. No violence, no sword, no bitterness or wrath can he use. The spread of the peaceful principles of the Savior, will draw men out of the kingdoms of earth into the kingdom of God.β
About David Lipscomb
David Lipscomb (1831–1917) was a religious minister, Christian pacifist, author and leader in the American Restoration Movement.
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