Love these questions as they match the questions that roll around in my head. The church proclaims Christ as King, but His kingship is based on self-giving love and invitation, not force and coercion. It would seem we have to rethink our definition of "ruler", "Lord" or "King" in order to define i...

I mean, the way I see it, the story of Jesus illustrates that govt & religious authorities (same thing) are what kill God. And I think there are few things demonstrated quite so clearly throughout human history.

Yes, what I mean is that Christ is the ruler. He is King. There can be no pure anarchy. Anarchy defined as "No rulers"

Yes, that is a profound insight.

Another way of understanding anarchy is a system of mutual respect. It is the affirmation of the principle of self ownership universilized to everyone. When you state that "Christ is ruler over all" are you actually saying that we as individuals don't own ourselves i.e. our bodies? If we don't ow...

I'm saying that He is King over all in the same sense that a king has all authority in His kingdom.

I think the personification of non-human or super-human forces confuses the conversation. Anarchy = no human rulers.

That's the thing about Jesus, He is fully God and fully man.

Yeah, that's not really useful in this context. Jesus isn't a person commanding others to go around & collect taxes. Voluntarily funded organizations are not governments. What distinguishes govt from business & charity is forced funding.

Right. My point is, if we structured our nation's under the rule of King Jesus, it would eliminate government tyranny. When the Israelites asked for a King God warned them that human government would be tyrannical. Until then they had God as King. They chose human government and rejected God as thei...