The \"Atheism\" of the Early Church

Early Christians were called “heretics” and “atheists” when they denied the gods of Rome...

The church today is beginning to face a situation similar to that of the early church in the Roman Empire. Where the church is truly faithful to Scripture, it is seen as an enemy of the state, and with good reason. The Bible requires a lord other than the state, and a radically different kind of education and law. It is Christ who is our Lord, not the state. Christians cannot believe in the lordship or sovereignty of the state. Jesus Christ alone is Lord. We must reject all other claims to sovereignty. Step by step, the church has receded from the law of God and His sovereignty. It has become peripheral to society and has surrendered leadership to the state. Either we reverse this process, or the church is finished.