{"id":10963,"date":"2021-05-21T16:13:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T20:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/?p=10963"},"modified":"2021-05-21T16:13:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T20:13:43","slug":"acts-529-shall-we-obey-gods-law-or-human-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/acts-529-shall-we-obey-gods-law-or-human-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Acts 5:29 &#8211; Shall we obey God\u2019s Law or human law?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shall we obey God\u2019s Law or human law? The Bible tells us to do both, but is that a contradiction? Acts 5:29 and Romans 13:1; I Peter 2:13<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Obey God\u2019s Law<\/p>\n<p>Acts 5:29, \u201cBut Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obey Man\u2019s Law<\/p>\n<p>Romans 13:1, \u201cLet every person be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>1 Peter 2:13, \u201cSubmit yourselves for the Lord\u2019s sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The simple answer is that Christians are to obey human law except where human law violates God\u2019s Law.\u00a0 Our supreme duty is to obey God.\u00a0 Since God tells us to also obey human laws, we should.\u00a0 But, when they come in conflict, we are to \u201cobey God rather than men.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shall we obey God\u2019s Law or human law? The Bible tells us to do both, but is that a contradiction? Acts 5:29 and Romans 13:1; I Peter 2:13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-errors","category-bible-study","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}