>>530509Lastly I want to point out that the New Testament instructs Christians in the following way:
"Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ."
This scripture is incompatible with Marxism, Anarchism, and liberation theology. I find it telling that we are told constantly to believe scripture in some respects, but in other respects we are told to disregard it and to go with "Liberation theology" or "oral tradition" or to "participate in the community of Christ".
This chameleon-like tendency to change the source of Christian authority whimsically in order to shift the goalposts of an argument, or the context of a conversation, and to manifest a new source of Christian authority based on how you are dealing with an interlocutor, while flexible, is remarkably transparent in its deceptiveness. You may say "the source of Christian authority is Christ" but for those who lack your inherent religious convictions, the only way we can know this "Christ" is through preachers, scripture, etc. and you tell us to regard it one second, and disregard it the next.