Hemant Mehta<\/a> drew attention to a statement by the dean of Liberty University\u2019s law school, claiming that the government has no authority to legislate or require anything, except that which is scriptural.<\/p>\nIt was pointed out in a comment on the post on Facebook that this claim is the exact opposite of the point Paul makes in Romans 13. He doesn\u2019t say \u201cobey authorities, but only inasmuch as they do what\u00a0we know in advance from Scripture that God wants.\u201d He says that the rulers, who did not accept Jewish Scripture or Christian claims, ought to be obeyed, because despite their not accepting the one God, they are nonetheless ordained\u00a0by God to rule.<\/p>\n
And so here\u2019s the take-away point: Presumably if your \u201cChristian\u201d right-wing \u201claw\u201d \u201cschool\u201d dean\u00a0appeals to Scripture while in fact saying the opposite of what it says, the Biblical thing to do is to either ignore them, or to stand up to them. Because surely no dean has authority to say things like this which clearly contradict Scripture?<\/p>\n