Romans 13 Revisited

I have been vocally opposed to the capitulation of churches to the decree of the state that they must “forsake the assembling together“. Romans 13 seems to be the primary driver (excuse) used by church leadership to justify this position.

The unfortunate translation of ἐξουσίαις ὑπερεχούσαις as “governing authority” appears to support the notion of the state as the object under discussion. I reflexively reject that notion, but recognize that doing so demands a reasoned alternate interpretation of the entire passage. While I am convinced the “superior power” is a better interpretation of ἐξουσίαις ὑπερεχούσαις I still have not arrived at a satisfactory understanding of the passage. I have been meditating on this for quite some time, convinced as I am that the state is not the object here.

As I was walking early this morning I was reflecting on how we always seem to start inquiry into things at the “how could that happen” phase. Take for example WTC 7 imploding and the question of controlled demolition. People always start their consideration with “how could someone do that and get away with it?” That is a fair question and one I don’t have an answer for, but it is the wrong place to start. The place to start is with “what actually happened” and to explain the “what” using logic and reasoning and the model which best fits the observed phenomena. Once the “what” has been demonstrated using a best fit model, it is incumbent on those proposing an alternate model to falsify the assertion of the previous model. How does Romans 13 relate to this?

As I have stated, my understanding of this passage is inconclusive, however if I start with the axiom that the bible is the inerrant word of God, than I should be able to use logic to falsify any predicate I may have based on an interpretation of any passage. So take Roman 13:3.

“For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same”.

If rulers, ἄρχοντες, refers to the state here than all one has to do is demonstrate an instance where the state has indeed acted as a terror to good works, which seems to me an extraordinarily easy thing to demonstrate. Once you have done that logic dictates that either

1. The Word of God is not inerrant. Or...
2. The ἄρχοντες and the ἐξουσίαις ὑπερεχούσαις are not referring to the state.

Is my logic flawed?

Riding my bike

Riding my bike is a great time to let the mind wander where it will go, and today it drifted back to simpler times, when the most important issues of the day were exemplified by hoards a silly women in pink pussy hats and full body vagina costumes storming the capitol in protest of a patriarchy that dares to question inherent sanctity of committing infanticide in utero.

Those were the days, were they not? The great debate was how many genders there really are. A recent search on COVID by gender returned several sites that break it down. Oddly enough it only had two genders, male and female. [Gender was the heading on the sites, not my nomenclature.] Apparently, to the COVID, Roberta with a penis is indistinguishable from Robert. Who would have guessed?

And poor Joe Biden. This social distancing will most certainly circumscribe recreational groping. The sacrifices we make for safety.

I saw a woman jogging down a virtually deserted bike path wearing a face mask. I can certainly understand that. After all the "confirmed" cases in Warren County OH now stand at 45. One never knows where number 46 will strike. We can't be to careful.

There were a couple of high school kids in the park who were definitely violating the social distancing fatwa. Reckless. Hormones most likely.

Lunch is over. Back to work.

Censored

My recent Facebook post of an article on the positive effects of open air therapy experienced by Boston hospital during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic was deemed in violation of the FB right-think standards. One wonders why. There are only two possible reasons.

1. They find the photo of the open air hospital in violation.
2. It was the suggestion I made that a profit driven pharmaceutical industry would be loath to recommend this therapy.

I choose door number two. It seems clear to me that any criticism of the multi-billion dollar "Big Pharma" juggernaut is verboten. We must not criticize our masters.

Pandemic Bonds, Jews and Other Musings

I was made aware today of the World Bank launch of the first ever pandemic bond. Coincidentally, I happen to be reading La Civiltà Cattolica, Series XIV, Vol. VII, Fascicule 961, 23 October 1890. This essay from the late 19th century is surprising in its forthrightness concerning what was termed at the time "The Jewish Question". This is definitely a must read for modern evangelicals who subscribe to the false notion that America was founded on "Judeo-Christian" values. It provides a disturbing overview of just exactly what the "Judeo" part of those values are. However, that is not thrust of this post. What I found interesting, in light of the current "pandemic" and the announcement referred to above was the following:

Already in 1847, Cerfbeer, the president of the Israelite Central Consistory of France, described the success of his fellow Jews in that country:  

The Jews, in proportion to their number, occupy more posts than Catholics and Protestants combined. Their ruinous influence is at work more than ever in those affairs which most of all burden the nation's patrimony. There is no business in which they do not considerably participate, no public loan which they do not hold, no disastrous crash which they have not engineered and from which they do not profit. But unjustifiably they are lamenting, almost daily. Unjustifiable because they are those who enjoy the best of the favors and gain advantage over the others. 

I find it fascinating that even back then the Jewish banksters were engineering financial panics for their own profit. And they are still at it today.

Later, the convert, P. Ratisbonne, added:
Through their dexterity and ingenuity, as well as through their lust of power, the Jews have step by step occupied every way leading to wealth, dignity and power. Their spirit, so to speak, imbues modern society. They regulate the stock exchange, the press, theater, literature, the great trade channels by land, as well as by sea, and by possessing the capitals as well as through their shrewdness, at present they hold captive, like in a net, all of Christian society.

Is it any wonder that we naive Goy in the U.S. are bankrupting our nation fighting wars that benefit Israel and no one else? Even asking the question is verboten. It colors on an "anit-semite". Perhaps it is time we rejected that term.