john, in response to the writer who did not understand how paul could write to subject oneself to governmental authority - the same authority (emporer nero) which eventually massacred him and many other believers - a response could be that those who truly believe in and follow Jesus Christ open themselves to the type of death He died. Never did a man do such amazingly good things, such as raising the dead and healing all who came to Him, and yet get killed with no reason other than the political one used. we can march into the mouth of a roaring lion doing good...if we have already lost all. romans 8 tells us 'for Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter'. paul refused to resist the evil government but he also refused to follow them in their evil. gandhi's twin components of non-violence: fear not, hate not. it could be added, be ready to give up all, even your life in refusing to cooperate with evil. may God give us grace to be willing to lose all doing good. stephen paine
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