can you please give me a reference where he called for democracy. Apparently democracy is soo good, so Im assuming Jesus must have asked for it?
2006-09-20 14:41:55 · 12 answers · asked by abdulaziiz 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If not Jesus, then any Prophet asking for it would do
2006-09-20 14:46:10 · update #1
He didn't
2006-09-20 14:43:37 · answer #1 · answered by timjim 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus didn't have a Democracy to look at or see so He could not comment on it. But there is something better than a Democracy. It is the form of govt the USA is under, a Republic. A Republic is more Representative of the people in a more fair way. But a Republic can only work if the people are under laws made from judeo/christian values. Man is not perfect and must have constraints. The natural progression of govts is to decay from a republic to a democracy to socialism to tyranny. It is what happened to Greece then Rome. We in the US are headed that way if we don't learn by history and maintain our republic.
2006-09-20 21:59:54 · answer #2 · answered by child_of_the_lion 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact that Jesus did not call for the Jews to replace their monarchy with a democracy proves only that Jesus wasn't perfect.
It does not prove that democracy is a bad idea.
2006-09-20 21:49:44 · answer #3 · answered by scifiguy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is for a Theocracy, of which he is King. The Kingdom of God.
Democracy is shown to be the clay mixed with iron that is in Daniels description of a statue he saw in a dream.
There is more to the clay mixed with iron than what I can write here.
It is interesting to know what the Bible really thinks of democracy
2006-09-20 21:48:23 · answer #4 · answered by rangedog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who cares! That was then, this is now. Where in our Democracy did we call for Jesus? God, maybe, but not Jesus, And it doesn't have to be Jesus's Father either . It can be each religion's God, or none at all if we so choose.
2006-09-20 21:47:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus didn't live under a King, but under the rules of life in Israel, His only ruler was his Heavenly Father, who even oppose the Israelites having a King, but they were determined. They had to have a symbol, just like they had to have a physical symbol of God at the foot of Mount Sinai.
God had always said that man cannot rule himself, but we refuse to learn. When we finally learn that lesson, it will be too late, because by then he will be destroying the governments of man, and all those involved with them, whatever their self-professed religion.
2006-09-20 21:49:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible never speaks of Democracy because it didn't matter at that point.
The Bible is the Record of God seeking to Redeem Fallen Man back to Himself !
2006-09-20 21:46:48 · answer #7 · answered by Minister 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus never preached democracy, although he died so we could have true freedom.
2006-09-21 00:48:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was not a king or lived under one, when he came to earth he was the son of a carpenter.
2006-09-20 21:45:07 · answer #9 · answered by Marco 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
He didn't. He merely believed that all people are valuable and should be taken care of. That's not democracy. It's socialism.
2006-09-20 21:44:09 · answer #10 · answered by Kevin 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Governments are a worldly power.. Satan controls democracy and all forms of government.
2006-09-20 21:43:46 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋