US President Donald Trump is greeting by Pastor Robert Jeffress during the Celebrate Freedom Rally at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on July 1, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Olivier Douliery-Pool via Getty Images)
This week, amongst the fire and brimstone rhetoric of President Trump, came an unusual endorsement of his approach.
Pastor Robert Jeffress, one of President Trump’s evangelical advisers, released a statement claiming that Trump has the moral authority to “Take out” Kim Jong Un.“When it comes to how we should deal with evildoers, the Bible, in the book of Romans, is very clear: God has endowed rulers full power to use whatever means necessary, including war, to stop evil”, the pastor says.
He also has the scripture to back him up.
Romans 13, which was commonly cited passage in the age of the Devine Right of Kings, is often read to mean that rulers have the endorsement of God by virtue of being in power, or that all state authority ultimately comes from God. The idea being that if God really didn’t want somebody in power, he could easily see to their removal.
Some evangelicals, such as Jeffress, go further. They see it as evidence of God’s use of political leaders to achieve his goals, and the unlimited legitimacy of those governments to carry out his will.
“That gives the government … the authority to do whatever…to quell the actions of evildoers like Kim Jong Un,” says Jeffress.
However, Professor Amy Black, at Wheaton College, points out that Romans 13 could also be used…
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