Saturday, November 29, 2008

Why "Under Authority?"- I

Brent and Alia will remember that one of my early influences for homeschooling was Jonathan Lindvall. The only specific thing they probably remember is his enthusiastic, but amateur, singer/songwriter compositions about Biblical parenting.

However, his discussion of Mt. 8:5-13 was something I’d not heard before. His interpretation of the relevance of “under authority” was that the centurion recognized that Jesus was under the authority of the Creator of the universe, and was therefore authorized to intervene in the creation in a supernatural way.

His point was that all legitimate authority is ultimately grounded in its submission to God’s authority, and that any authority that is not in submission to God’s authority is illegitimate in those areas where it is in rebellion.

So, why start with this specific aspect of the created order? (sorry, Alia, I’m going to use this phrase…unless you can suggest a better one that says (a) the universe was created, and (b) we perceive it as having a structure that has some degree of order/organization).

That’s the topic of the next post.

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