For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same; for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.(Rom 13:3-4 NASB)
看這兩節經文的英譯,奇實表達神設立統治者的目的,原不是要阻嚇善行,而是要阻嚇惡行,正如現在佔中者所作的。不但如此,神設立統治者,係為著你——基督徒可以行善,for it is a minister of God to you for good. 就是這意思。但人不服神的話,就扭曲強解,話這段經文講順服政權係有條件,條件就係要政權公義。其實羅馬書一早就講咗冇義人,何來公義的政權,但人不信服神的義,就會把自已的意思讀進去,就會把人的義或政權的義讀進去。
基督徒在這個世界是客旅,是寄居的(彼前2:11),我們的位份是天上的國民(our citizenship is in heaven (Phi 3:20 NASB))。世人所講的自由、民主、普選是屬地,是屬於這個將亡的世界,根本就係糞土,基督徒不應追求這些垃圾,以地上的事為念,更不應為這些糞土去反抗政權,而是要將萬事當作有損的,以認識我主基督耶穌為至寶。(腓3:8-10)