June 28, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – An international group of Christian pastors has collaborated to create a document in defense of the Biblical understanding of authority and liberty amid COVID-19 related lockdowns and medical mandates seen around the world.
“With the rise of COVID-19 and all of the attendant ramifications, it has been incumbent upon the church to come to terms with what it believes related to the intersecting areas of biblical ethics, authority, and medical mandates,” reads the preamble to the Warrenton Declaration on Medical Mandates, Biblical Ethics, & Authority, released Wednesday.
The declaration, initially signed by 24 Protestant church leaders from the U.S. and Europe, has since attracted the endorsement of at least another 140 co-signatories. The purpose of the document, according to the declaration website, is to “provide doctrinal clarity and coherence on issues of biblical authority and ethics related to medical mandates.”
To this end, the declaration raises 36 propositions both affirming biblical teachings about the rights and duties of man in relation to the just ruler and denying the false application of those principles. Broken into two distinct yet related sections, the declaration first focuses on “authority,” the opening statement of which affirms “that all authority,
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