{"id":15645,"date":"2020-05-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apologeticspress.org\/issue\/discovery-512020\/"},"modified":"2021-09-13T07:52:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T12:52:44","slug":"discovery-512020","status":"publish","type":"issue","link":"https:\/\/apologeticspress.org\/issue\/discovery-512020\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery &#8211; May 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who has the&nbsp;<strong>authority<\/strong>&nbsp;to tell anyone what \u201cto do\u201d or what \u201cnot to do\u201d? Who has the&nbsp;<strong>right&nbsp;<\/strong>to tell you, \u201cYou can,\u201d or \u201cYou can\u2019t\u201d? Have you ever thought about the fact that real authority only exists if God exists? Why must a 17-year-old, who might be bigger, stronger, faster, and perhaps even smarter than his parents, obey his parents? Why must a 90-year-old U.S citizen pay taxes and obey the President (who might only be 45)? The answer to these and any number of other questions about real authority and power is found in God. If God doesn\u2019t exist, then logically, you can do whatever is right in your own eyes (Judges 21:25). You&nbsp;<strong>might<\/strong>&nbsp;do what someone else says because it is to your advantage in a given situation, but it would not be the result of anyone actually having real authority over you\u2014again, if God does not exist. On the other hand, if God&nbsp;<strong>does<\/strong>&nbsp;exist, then absolute authority exists. The logical reason for truly obeying someone is rooted and grounded in God and His Word. If God has instructed man regarding \u201cwho is to obey whom,\u201d then such rule of law must be followed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/apologeticspress.org\/authority-5795\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/apologeticspress.org\/issue\/?taxonomy=publication&amp;term=discovery\">Past Archives<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who has the&nbsp;authority&nbsp;to tell anyone what \u201cto do\u201d or what \u201cnot to do\u201d? Who has the&nbsp;right&nbsp;to tell you, \u201cYou can,\u201d or \u201cYou can\u2019t\u201d? Have you ever thought about the fact that real authority only exists if God exists? Why must a 17-year-old, who might be bigger, stronger, faster, and perhaps even smarter than his parents,&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/apologeticspress.org\/issue\/discovery-512020\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"age-group":[171],"publication":[249],"class_list":["post-15645","issue","type-issue","status-publish","hentry","age-group-kids","publication-discovery"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apologeticspress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue\/15645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apologeticspress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apologeticspress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apologeticspress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"age-group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apologeticspress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age-group?post=15645"},{"taxonomy":"publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apologeticspress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication?post=15645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}