Letter: Unless they are ordering things that are against God's Word then God expects us to obey them

Letter: Unless they are ordering things that are against God's Word then God expects us to obey them

To the editor: In the mid-1st Century AD, the Apostle Paul wrote the following to the early Christians living in Rome under the rule of Nero Caesar: "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to g…