![]() Christians should submit to human authority not only to avoid punishment but also to maintain a clear conscience before God (v5). Rulers are a deterrent to evil in society (v3) in fact, a ruler is “God’s servant,” bringing retribution to the wrongdoer (v4). Therefore, resisting earthly authority is the same as resisting God (v2). Immediately following the command is the reason for it: namely, authorities are God-ordained (v1b). The passage starts with a clear-cut command to submit to “the governing authorities” (v1a). Here’s a verse-by-verse summary of Romans 13:1-7: Not surprisingly, most English preachers, such as John Wesley, urged restraint and pacifism on the part of the colonists while most Colonial preachers, such as John Witherspoon and Jonathan Mayhew, fanned the flames of revolution.īefore we weigh the actions of the colonists, we must take a look at the Scripture they struggled with. No one can deny that most of the Founding Fathers were religious men or that the liberty they fought for has benefited millions of people, but was their revolt against England biblically justified? Specifically, was the American Revolution a violation of Romans 13:1-7?ĭuring the years before the Revolutionary War, the issue of justified rebellion was widely debated, with good men on both sides of the issue. ![]() Register for the Daily Good Word E-Mail! - You can get our daily Good Word sent directly to you via e-mail in either HTML or Text format.The American Revolutionary War was a pivotal event in world history, and the constitutional republic that followed has produced the freest, most productive society ever. (May everyone reading this have the happiest and most prosperous of New Years!) ![]() It also turned up in Old Norse as louss "loose", which we borrowed from the Vikings as our very own adjective, loose. The same root came to the Germanic languages without the prefix but with a suffix -s, filtering down to English as lose and less. Solvere comes from Proto-Indo-European leu- "to loosen, divide" with an ancient prefix su- "apart," giving su-leu-, which evolved into Latin solv- plus the verbal endings, like the infinitive ending, -ere, seen here. Word History: Despite the fact that New Year's resolutions tend to tie us down, the word originates in the Latin verb resolvere "to untie", made up of re- "again" + solvere "to loosen, untie". Some resolutions have the force of law: "Did you hear about the Congressional resolution to make April Fool's Day a national holiday?" A resolution to avoid partisan conflict in Congress would be more useful. Others will continue to make resolutions to lose weight, give up smoking, and the like. In Play: alphaDictionary's resolutions for 2023 are to avoid words like today's with so many meanings and not to make any more resolutions. Resolutional is a new adjective now used quite widely in referring to the resolution of video screens: high-resolutional screens. ![]() The verb has several adjectives, including resolutive and resolvable, usually referring to problems or substances that can be resolved. Notes: Today's Good Word is the noun of the verb resolve, which can also be used as a noun meaning "firm commitment", as 'to carry out your New Year's resolutions with resolve'. Clarification, conclusion, as 'the resolution of the plot of a novel'. Fineness of detail in a picture, as 'a high-resolution video screen'. Reduction of a substance to its elementary constituents, as 'the resolution of sunlight into different colors'. A dedicated promise and firm commitment to do something. ![]()
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