To see this in what it means and fail to engage with its meaning may make you foolish or downright inexplicable. It makes sense for all the right reasons. It speaks to the imagination of a child's interests but should spark you. It speaks to me as inspiring. If you are an equal moral agent of gods will. Not outstanding to your own less than powerful judgment. This doesn't make you lay claim to my peddling religious beliefs as a high priest. On the contrary.... it works in the query of a philosopher's stone.
If you cannot accept.what you see for yourself despite what you may fail to see as true or false. Take a guess as to why. There are no tricks the mind can play on you when you grasp the letters in these words. MA2022
“Love and value others the same way you love and value yourself.”
Romans 13:9 TPT
The above citation is a poor man's version of Kantian ethics and fair resolve. To treat each other as in man vs man as an equal. To treat others as an end and never merely as means. MA2022
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ROMANS 13
Our Relationship to Civil Authorities
1 Every person must submit to and support the authorities over him. For there can be no authority in the universe except by God’s appointment, which means that every authority that exists has been instituted by God.
(There is an inversely wild element we tame in all of us that does not mean we are inherently evil in the eyes of god, it takes time to realize and may also take a dogmatic form. Be a critical thinker and change your outcomes and fear not. You force yourself. But we must be selfish. Have you happened to live life the hard way. Suffering is an integral relationship between the ego and an indication of how you believe is a divine power.) MA2022
2 So to resist authority is to resist the divine order of God, which results in severe consequences.
(You are to infer the medium behind the message which in my mind asks: what is true divine order... and where or not we must speak in terms of a dialect inventive of a divine language that is restored.) MA2022
3 For civil authorities don’t intimidate those who are doing good, but those who are doing evil. So do what is right and you’ll never need to fear those in authority. They will commend you for your good citizenship.
(I often get thoughts sliced open like a bright orange copper and as time permits to question my own authority. I think authority should be based in humility. Authority breeds substance... it should not be impenetrable.) MA2022
4 Those in authority are God’s servants for the good of society. But if you break the law, you have reason to be alarmed, for they are God’s agents of punishment to bring criminals to justice. Why do you think they carry weapons?
(There is not much to dissect here... other than that the ideation or glorification of guns as weapons is fatally flawed in a faternal manner of the US second ammendment. Fanatics must be charged with purgery. Using guns is in excessive force is a crime in itself.) MA2022
5 You are compelled to obey them, not just to avoid punishment, but because you want to live with a clean conscience.
(To live in a clean conscience is the end goal. It should serve and be served. It speaks into the void of impartiality.) MA2022
6 This is also the reason you pay your taxes, for governmental authorities are God’s officials who oversee these things.
(This is an environment of sacrifice for the good of all men invested in their roles as a society will dictate. Our despondency will elicit or illustrate these things as it should be in good governing measured to all things being equally held. Liberals demonstrate good government funding to public infused social programs. Conservatives sell out to the privatization of such oligarchs as it is historically invalid. ) MA2022
7 So it is your duty to pay all the taxes and fees that they require and to respect those who are worthy of respect, honoring them accordingly.
(Good governance on a whole is a matter that links libertarians and socialists alike. Evil governance is the downfall of what seems to be popular or deafly mainstream across a global mosaic. Deadly empires such as the Romans historically heads of state ruled with that same state of mind. Only until an imperative Renaissance was conceived did abolishing Feudalism and Royalty which created the colonialization of the world we've recorded today.) MA2022
8 Don’t owe anything to anyone, except your outstanding debt to continually love one another, for the one who learns to love has fulfilled every requirement of the law.
9 For the commandments, “Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet,” and every other commandment can be summed up in these words:
“Love and value others the same way you love and value yourself.”
(Brilliant.) MA2022
10 Love makes it impossible to harm another, so love fulfills all that the law requires.
Living in the Light
11 To live like this is all the more urgent, for time is running out and you know it is a strategic hour in human history. It is time for us to wake up! For our full salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
12 Night’s darkness is dissolving away as a new day of destiny dawns. So we must once and for all strip away what is done in the shadows of darkness, removing it like filthy clothes. And once and for all we clothe ourselves with the radiance of light as our weapon.
13 We must live honorably, surrounded by the light of this new day, not in the darkness of drunkenness and debauchery, not in promiscuity and sensuality, not being argumentative or jealous of others.
14 Instead fully immerse yourselves into the Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, and don’t waste even a moment’s thought on your former identity to awaken its selfish desires
