The Early Christian Stance on Politics and Citizenship #shorts #shortsvideo
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It wasn't a democracy. You had the Roman Empire, and Caesars were appointed or followed their father, something like like that. They stayed out of politics. I think we can definitely say that. The quote I like I've used often from Tertullian, he said, "All zeal and the pursuit of glory and honor is dead in us. So we have no pressing inducement to take part in your public meetings, nor is anything more entirely foreign to us than the affairs of state.
We acknowledge one all-embracing commonwealth, the world." Christians stayed out of the political issues of their day, even though they didn't have voting. They definitely had politics involved in who would be the next Caesar, who would be the governor of this province, who would be the king here and there. As he said, that was entirely foreign to them. They were citizens of another kingdom, so they stayed away from from all of that.
So that just as a brief introduction, the early Christian position on on both of those, and they came from being citizens of another kingdom.
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