• The majority is evil (Matthew 7)
• “... wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and… many… go in by it.” (Matthew 7:13)
• “Narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it” (Matthew 7:14)
• Since the majority is evil, majority rule is guaranteed, over time, to be evil.
• So majority rule, on average, hastens government’s descent into wickedness.
• Since the majority is evil, once a democratic government becomes evil, virtually nothing can restore it.
• While individuals often repent and turn toward God, the masses rarely do, especially not of their own leading.
• As in the modern vernacular, the Bible calls governing officials “authorities.” (Romans 13, Titus 3, Luke 12, Acts 16)
• Government authority does not imply majority rule, but rule over the majority. (Romans 13)
• Democracy promotes arrogance, suggesting to people that the governing leaders should obey them.
~ Democracy: people obey the government, which obeys the people, who obey the government, which obeys the people, etc.
• Circular authority suffers from the same weakness as circular reasoning: both lack a valid foundation.
• Democracy promotes arrogance suggesting to people that they should be able to lord it over their neighbors.
• “Better to live under one tyrant 3,000 miles away, than 3,000 tyrants one mile away.” -
The Patriot movie
• True authority, like water, flows downhill not up, not from the people to rulers but from rulers down. (Numbers 27)
• Authority flows from God, through government, to men, and passes through parents to reach children.
• “Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities…”
• For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.
• “Governing authorities” are from God and each official should act as “God’s minister” (Romans 13) [i.e., God has appointed all authority structures, of parents, ministers, and government officials.]
~ “Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and… will bring judgment on themselves.”
~ “For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good...)”
• God never established governance by committee, but governance by individuals.
• The desire to rule over others (Matthew 20, Mark 10) lurks among the vulgar lusts (Matthew 20, Mark 9:10).
• Democracy exalts the vice of brazen self-promotion to the center of public life.
• In denial of Scripture, leftists believe men are basically good and so support rule by the people.
~ Leftists inflate individual authority to release men from the restraint of government, church, and family.
• Man’s inherent sinfulness indicates that democracy will systematically worsen government.
• Unlike majorities, even wicked individuals, i.e. Pilate, may decide justly, for their own reputation’s sake.
• Voting negatives: (Numbers 27) & representative of the people, Numbers 16, rebellion of Korah…
• Elections “by smooth words and [with] flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple.” (Romans 16)
• Alcuin's
Letter to Charlemagne 800 AD foolishly states “the voice of the people is the voice of God.”
~ President Millard Fillmore rightly said, “May God save the country, for it is obvious the people will not.”
• The forces of Hell love democracy, including Hillary, Homosexuals, Humanists, and Hollywood.
• In a monarchy the king is likely to be corrupt, but he does not legalize his behavior.
• In a democracy everyone is made king, and laws are changed to permit wicked behavior.
~ Since the majority is evil (Matthew 7), democracy, that is, majority rule, is inherently an evil government system.
