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====Sovereignty -- Divine And Human====

====Sovereignty -- Divine And Human====

Jesus taught:

Jesus' teachings at Urmia, as adapted to twentieth-century religious and political conditions:

*“The brotherhood of men is founded on the fatherhood of God. The family of God is derived from the love of God -- God is love. God the Father divinely loves his children, all of them.  

*“The brotherhood of men is founded on the fatherhood of God. The family of God is derived from the love of God -- God is love. God the Father divinely loves his children, all of them.  

====Political Sovereignty====

====Political Sovereignty====

Jesus taught:

Jesus' teachings at Urmia, as adapted to twentieth-century religious and political conditions:

 

While the Master's teaching concerning the sovereignty of God is a truth -- only complicated by the subsequent appearance of the religion about him among the world's religions -- his presentations concerning political sovereignty are vastly complicated by the political evolution of nation life during the last nineteen hundred years and more. In the times of Jesus there were only two great world powers -- the Roman Empire in the West and the Han Empire in the East -- and these were widely separated by the Parthian kingdom and other intervening lands of the Caspian and Turkestan regions. We have, therefore, in the following presentation departed more widely from the substance of the Master's teachings at Urmia concerning political sovereignty, at the same time attempting to depict the import of such teachings, as they are applicable to the peculiarly critical stage of the evolution of political sovereignty in the twentieth century after Christ.

While the Master's teaching concerning the sovereignty of God is a truth -- only complicated by the subsequent appearance of the religion about him among the world's religions -- his presentations concerning political sovereignty are vastly complicated by the political evolution of nation life during the last nineteen hundred years and more. In the times of Jesus there were only two great world powers -- the Roman Empire in the West and the Han Empire in the East -- and these were widely separated by the Parthian kingdom and other intervening lands of the Caspian and Turkestan regions. We have, therefore, in the following presentation departed more widely from the substance of the Master's teachings at Urmia concerning political sovereignty, at the same time attempting to depict the import of such teachings, as they are applicable to the peculiarly critical stage of the evolution of political sovereignty in the twentieth century after Christ.

====Law, Liberty, and Sovereignty====

====Law, Liberty, and Sovereignty====

Jesus taught:

Jesus' teachings at Urmia, as adapted to twentieth-century religious and political conditions:

 

*“'''If one man craves freedom -- liberty -- he must remember that all other men long for the same freedom'''. Groups of such liberty-loving mortals cannot live together in peace without becoming subservient to such laws, rules, and regulations as will grant each person the same degree of freedom while at the same time safeguarding an equal degree of freedom for all of his fellow mortals. If one man is to be absolutely free, then another must become an absolute slave. And the relative nature of freedom is true socially, economically, and politically. '''Freedom is the gift of civilization made possible by the enforcement of LAW'''.  

*“'''If one man craves freedom -- liberty -- he must remember that all other men long for the same freedom'''. Groups of such liberty-loving mortals cannot live together in peace without becoming subservient to such laws, rules, and regulations as will grant each person the same degree of freedom while at the same time safeguarding an equal degree of freedom for all of his fellow mortals. If one man is to be absolutely free, then another must become an absolute slave. And the relative nature of freedom is true socially, economically, and politically. '''Freedom is the gift of civilization made possible by the enforcement of LAW'''.  

====Continued====  

====Continued====  

Jesus continued to teach:

Jesus' teachings at Urmia, as adapted to twentieth-century religious and political conditions continued:

*"The individual will enjoy far more liberty under world government. Today, the citizens of the great powers are taxed, regulated, and controlled almost oppressively, and much of this present interference with individual liberties will vanish when the national governments are willing to trustee their sovereignty as regards international affairs into the hands of global government.  

*"The individual will enjoy far more liberty under world government. Today, the citizens of the great powers are taxed, regulated, and controlled almost oppressively, and much of this present interference with individual liberties will vanish when the national governments are willing to trustee their sovereignty as regards international affairs into the hands of global government.