Peter and the other apostles - Acts 5:27 And when they had brought them, they set them
before the council: and the high priest asked them, 28 Saying, Did not we
straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye
have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood
upon us. 29 Then Peter and the other
apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
I believe the principle was and is: Obey God AND the
government until the government opposes God’s commands, then obey God.
I fear to say it, but many Christians I know break
the law whenever they feel like it, whenever it is most convenient to them.
They fudge on their taxes, they speed, they don’t stop at stop signs, they lie
to the officers, they possess illegal contraband, etc. But when pressured by
the government in matters which oppose God’s law, they melt like Hillary going
down a set of stairs.
