Letters To The Editor
Government as an Evil
The article by Dennis Behreandt in the December 23, 2019 issue of TNA, “The Divine Message of Freedom,” is a great discredit to an otherwise fine publication. The overarching issue becomes clear in Behreandt’s quotation of the statement, “Everyone can admit that [the Gospels] were not written as strictly historical documents.” This is a reflection of the modern view of many who refuse to accept that the Holy Bible is both inerrant (without error) and infallible (cannot be in error); it is the Word of God, who cannot lie.
From there Behreandt proceeds to misrepresent the Holy Bible as teaching that civil government is evil, using faulty exegesis of scripture, namely the people’s demand to Samuel for a king, Christ’s temptation in the wilderness, rendering to Caesar, and Romans 13 on civil government.
For the sake of space, this writer will only comment briefly, but interested readers will do well to consult the commentaries by John Calvin and Matthew Henry on these passages. Helpful books include Samuel Rutherford’s Lex Rex, William Symington’s Messiah the Prince, and Alexander McLeod’s Messiah, Governor of the Nations of the Earth. A more modern treatment is at https://beforgiven.info/JCRoHRaF.pdf, Jeremiah Bezalel’s “Jesus Christ: Rock of Human Rights and Freedom.”
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