Leaving Egypt Ministries, Obadiah D. Morris
In the first part of this series, I make a controversial criticism of mainstream conceptions of salvation as merely being about the soul being “saved” into heaven when we die, and make the Biblical case that being “saved” often has much more to do with the Lord actually liberating us from our enemies and delivering us from the hands of the Egyptians. This is often neglected in a modern-day Christianity that is almost wholly heavenly-minded and neglects political theology as a sub-disciple of scripture rather than the essence of it. Nevertheless, Old Testament stories of salvation deal with God liberating His people from the physical bondage of Egyptian rulers and the hands of the Assyrian captors when they repent and turn back to Him. Likewise, Jesus came as a King not just to save our souls into heaven when we die, but to free from the dominion of man over man by coming into His Kingdom — to liberate us from the statist kingdoms of the world that sinners find themselves enslaved to for turning away from God as their only ruler.
Once we see that the type of salvation offered by God has very much to do with actually protecting us from our enemies, we see just how much those who trust in human governments and their militaries and police forces for their alleged “protection” are necessarily abandoning God to trust in false saviors. If we don’t uphold this as true and defend salvation as freedom from the actually bondage of worldly governments and just make it into an afterlife, soul-saving thing, then men are able to claim that statism is not contrary to their faith and doesn’t contradict their professed trust in the Lord. But the State is a false religion of false gods who offer a false salvation to people who trust in them. Statism is a competing system of salvation to that of the Lord, such that men must choose between one or the other and cannot hold to both the Lord and Caesar.
Since statism is a false idea of salvation, naturally those who betray God by trusting in these false gods pay a great price for it. Rather than be liberated from the hands of men, as they would be if they trusted in the Lord alone and sought His Kingdom at the exclusion of all others, they get delivered into the hands of men who enslave them as a punishment for their sin of statism.
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