If you really don't know, then you are even dumber than you appear. You seem to have great difficulty knowing right from wrong.
If so, don't you think it seems a bit inconsistent on their part to refuse to pay fines so as not to finance an immoral system? :idunno:
You seem to have great difficulty with reason.
Why do you think they didn't just leave, and resume the gospel? I guess Paul is a hypocrite for not doing as he himself preached.
Paul wasn't breaking the law in that passage, Nick. And Bob was not "imprisoned" without cause. He had ample opportunity to comply with the law. Bob and Co. were neither beaten nor in any way abused, and they were rightly condemned for their legal infraction.
To compare their situation to Paul's in this instance is laughable.
Murdering Tiller saved more lives, but it was still wrong to do so. Do no evil that good may come about. It is evil to not rebuke Focus on the Family.
Likewise, it is evil to defy God-appointed authority. It is evil to break the law.
And let's not forget, Nick, Focus HAD been rebuked. Both publicly through the medium of Bob's show and privately through the letter that they delivered.
Now, Nick...pop quiz: What does the Bible say to do when you have gone to a brother who refuses to repent? What does it say to do when you have preached the gospel to a heathen who refuses to hear?
Walk. Away. In the former case, turn them over to Satan. In the latter, shake the dust from your feet.
Quote the verse that says that you are to "sit in" and defy civil authority so you can tell another of their sin even as you commit sin of your own.
1 Timothy 5:20
Those who are sinning rebuke in the presence of all, that the rest also may fear
What's more "in the presence of all", Nick? The radio show? Or a small protest on the Focus campus?
And as an interesting aside, why would you question me in doing exactly what this verse commands? If you really believed what you read there, you'd be rebuking Bob and Co. in the presence of all, right alongside me, while likewise condemning the actions of Focus regarding their broken word.
Neither party is without culpability in this situation and both did damage to the cause.
You are an embarssasment.
And you, Nick, are a sycophant. :cheers: