Even as Christians are instructed to not be part of this World because of their citizenship in The non Earthly Kingdom of God, let's pretend here it is an issue needing attention. Do Christians have Rights conferred and guarded by Earthly Government? Yes? State what those Rights are, and exactly from where in Scripture they come.
While you are searching, this will review imaginary Rights not to be held by Christians anywhere on Earth, not established in any endurable documents, and not in place within God's Word.
1.) The Right of Life.
No place in Scripture states Christians have a right to continuation of their physical life. Rather, they are appointed to give up their lives either as a dynamic, or as an endpoint of death.
2.) The Right of Liberty.
No place in Scripture states Christians have any rights for civil liberty, but are commanded to submit to secular government that is not breaking God's Laws for holiness of conduct. Christians are to claim no rights for property ownership, personal travel, free speech, economic opportunity, redress of violence, protection from assault, access to information, access to material resources, handouts from the Government, or participation in Government.
3.) The Right to Pursuit of Happiness.
No Christian can find in Scripture their Right to be happy. Rather, we are to receive Joy superior to temporal happiness, Joy unrelated to circumstances and to physical amenity. Although Joyful Christians are to "Judge All Things" (1 Cor. 2:15) and be as wise as serpents, they are to refrain from using their awareness acuity to think they are victims of anything in the World. They are to speak of reality without complaining about it.
4.) The Right to Be Equal.
No Scripture gives Christians this as a Right in the World's System. Yes, in Christ Christians are equally redeemed and reborn, but are commanded to be lowly in life not as an incidental feature, but in heart (Prov.16:19, Phil. 2:3). Lowly people are far from equal to the elevated and dynamically renowned. Christians are to thoroughly enjoy being lowly.
5.) The Right to be Respected.
Although Christians indeed are to be persistent upon the Gospel, service, and worship in their own conduct and speech, Scripture denies them acting with froward intent to jam anything into someone else's privacy. Christians are to be skillfully alert opportunists, ready to be opposed for spurious reasons, and not to be little dictators because of their position.
Let us know about other false Rights imagined by Christians which can be discovered, so all can repent unto Obedience to Christ.
While you are searching, this will review imaginary Rights not to be held by Christians anywhere on Earth, not established in any endurable documents, and not in place within God's Word.
1.) The Right of Life.
No place in Scripture states Christians have a right to continuation of their physical life. Rather, they are appointed to give up their lives either as a dynamic, or as an endpoint of death.
2.) The Right of Liberty.
No place in Scripture states Christians have any rights for civil liberty, but are commanded to submit to secular government that is not breaking God's Laws for holiness of conduct. Christians are to claim no rights for property ownership, personal travel, free speech, economic opportunity, redress of violence, protection from assault, access to information, access to material resources, handouts from the Government, or participation in Government.
3.) The Right to Pursuit of Happiness.
No Christian can find in Scripture their Right to be happy. Rather, we are to receive Joy superior to temporal happiness, Joy unrelated to circumstances and to physical amenity. Although Joyful Christians are to "Judge All Things" (1 Cor. 2:15) and be as wise as serpents, they are to refrain from using their awareness acuity to think they are victims of anything in the World. They are to speak of reality without complaining about it.
4.) The Right to Be Equal.
No Scripture gives Christians this as a Right in the World's System. Yes, in Christ Christians are equally redeemed and reborn, but are commanded to be lowly in life not as an incidental feature, but in heart (Prov.16:19, Phil. 2:3). Lowly people are far from equal to the elevated and dynamically renowned. Christians are to thoroughly enjoy being lowly.
5.) The Right to be Respected.
Although Christians indeed are to be persistent upon the Gospel, service, and worship in their own conduct and speech, Scripture denies them acting with froward intent to jam anything into someone else's privacy. Christians are to be skillfully alert opportunists, ready to be opposed for spurious reasons, and not to be little dictators because of their position.
Let us know about other false Rights imagined by Christians which can be discovered, so all can repent unto Obedience to Christ.