Paul,
Please explain how you can submit to someone and not obey him. Seems like the so-called "submission" is a farce in that case.
We should honor authorities and submit to them as conscience allows. But when the Lord leads us we have to obey him. Christians should not have a "rebellious spirit," they should honor the authorities. But once you disobey you are not submitting, so submission can never be "absolute." Like I said, it sounds good (actually it doesn't even sound good, but that's another story) but it doesn't ultimately make any sense. Nowhere does the Bible say submission is absolute.
As I said, this is just another teaching which is being leveraged to control people.
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