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Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities

"Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. For he is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God's minister, an avenger to [execute] wrath on him who practices evil." (Romans 13:1-4) I will attempt to address the following questions: 1)Is every government that exists appointed by God, even the bad ones? 2)Should we obey a government even if it's tyrannical? 3)Is it okay to criticize governing authorities that are appointed by God? 4)Were our Founding Fathers sinning when they rebelled ag...