Magdeburg Confession

Not at all.

In fact, there's a- And we go over this partly in True Christian History, but if you look up the Lutheran doctrine of resistance, it's a whole developed doctrine that, uh, you find also in the, uh, at the Siege of Magdeburg in what is called the Magdeburg Confession, where the Lutheran ministers wrote out the Lutheran doctrine of resistance.

We also have to remember, in terms of denouncing the papacy, why are they denouncing the papacy? Because of the Inquisition, because Rome is putting people to death for reading the Bible and for preaching the Gospel.

All right.

And I think that's where Christian wisdom comes into play.

I mean, I think one of the things we could mention that people can look into for this is the Magdeburg Confession, because it does deal— a lot with disobeying government and how that looks.

But one of the things that came out of all of that was this idea of the interposition of the lesser magistrate, which is kind of the opposite of what the question is, but I think it's helpful to at least start there, that if the people above are enforcing unjust things, Hopefully there's someone locally who steps up and says, you know what? This law is unconstitutional, right? If I enforce this, I'm violating the oaths I took to uphold these various other laws and constitutions.

So I can't do that.