David Lipscomb: Government

David Lipscomb was Leader, American Restoration Movement. Explore interesting quotes on government.
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“In Eden the government was direct, individual and personal. God spoke directly to man and gave specific commands to be obeyed.”

David Lipscomb

Source: Civil Government : Its Origin, Mission, and Destiny (1889), p. 12
Context: God has always kept on earth a government of his own…In Eden the government was direct, individual and personal. God spoke directly to man and gave specific commands to be obeyed.

God , Personality

“Human government, the embodied effort of man to rule the world without God, ruled over by "the prince of this world," the devil.”

David Lipscomb

Source: Civil Government : Its Origin, Mission, and Destiny (1889), p. 73
Context: Human government, the embodied effort of man to rule the world without God, ruled over by "the prince of this world," the devil. Its mission is to execute wrath and vengeance here on earth. Human government bears the same relation to hell as the church bears to heaven.

God , World , Effort

“Every one who honors and serves the human government and relies upon it, for good, more than he does upon the Divine government, worships and serves the creature more than he does the Creator.”

David Lipscomb

Source: Civil Government : Its Origin, Mission, and Destiny (1889), p. 49

“All the wars and strifes between tribes, races, nations, from the beginning until now, have been the result of man's effort to govern himself and the world, rather than to submit to the government of God.”

David Lipscomb

Source: Civil Government : Its Origin, Mission, and Destiny (1889), p. 10

God , War , World , Effort