Phage, you misquote me. The quoted material is my response to your first selection from Romans 6 by stating that you are not reading that from the passage, but into it.
I respond to your reading of Romans 13 by stating my relationship to the government. Your latest quote, focusing on the "sword" is equally unconvincing. Paul is writing in the midst of a hostile empire. While he is telling people to keep their heads down, he is not writing to descibe the ideal state. The US is a democracy, and a majority Christian nation. from a Christian viewpoint, there's no reason we need to be in the moral slums with the Roman Empire.
Your last line is both insulting and ill-informed. My argument begins with my assumptions (my confession of faith) and procedes from there,
like any other argument ought to. The readers of TFP deserve more? That's a snide and snotty thing to say when you aren't even responding to the content of my postings.
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Originally Posted by Phage
RTFT!
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How ironic.