Esther Sermon Riddled With Disturbing Presuppositions
A pastor invoked the account of Mordecai saving the life of the king in the Book of Esther to advocate passive submission to tyrannical authorities.
The pastor argued that is God that raises up and deposes who it is that God wants in power.
Yet history also teaches that the vast majority of those coming into power utilize means that cannot be categorized in any other way than as violent.
Therefore, how does one not know that it is not God’s will for Christians to remove ungodly leaders in a similar manner when other more peaceful means prove futile?
In a sermon on the book of Esther as a pretext to advocate passive submission to authority, a pastor admonished that to vote for particular unnamed candidates was to vote for abortion.
But if nonresistance to whatever is taking place in government office is advocated on the grounds that opposition by any available means is inappropriate because God is the one that ultimately raises up and deposes leaders, buy such reasoning, is not God the party responsible for putting into office functionaries implementing the policies anathema to His Own holiness of preferred values?
In a sermon on the Book of Esther, an independent Fundamentalist Baptist pastor emphasized as a theme submission to and honor of bad authority.
So in that narrative, was Queen Vashti rightfully punished for failing to cavort, many scholars believe even naked, as ordered by the king before drunken wretches?
If this degree of obsequious compliance that is to be expected of the sincere believer, no wonder the ecclesiastical movement of which this pulpit exegete numbers himself is plagued with molestation and sexual abuse scandals.
Frederick Meekins is an independent theologian and social critic. Frederick holds a BS in Political Science/History, a MA in Apologetics/Christian Philosophy from Trinity Theological Seminary, and a PhD. in Christian Apologetics from Newburgh Theological Seminary.
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