Already soooo tired of reading on social media that 'God's Will' was done in this election...WTF...if it's God's will, then is this outcome what he wanted or desired for our country? If it is, God hates U.S....
Someone posted a video on Reddit talking about "God's will" and "everyone is subject to the governing authorities". This was my response:
Romans 13:1-2
Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves.
From the Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed (emphasis added)
The preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America
We the People of the United States (emphasis added), in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
We do not have a king in this country. We have a form of government where all authority is vested in the government from the consent of the people, but the authority of that government, as we see in the preamble of the Constitution is actually in the people themselves, not in the government. The people grant the government it's powers and authorities by their consent. Office holders, such as the President of the United States are not in whom those powers and authorities are vested, they are vested
in the office and the person holding the office is the steward of those powers and authorities. Romans 13:1-2 was no less true four years ago when Biden was elected president than it is today, and would be no less true today if Harris had been elected president instead of Trump, because the authority derives from the consent of the governed and is vested in the office and the elected official is merely a steward of that office.
This is why I no longer call myself an evangelical.