And that very day Fred and Bernice's oldest son, Jeff, was on an aircraft carrier steaming toward a conflict in the Middle East. To Fred and Bernice the governments of the warring countries were acting like little brats who couldn't get their way. It wasn't a good day to ask Fred and Bernice if government was a blessing or a curse. They wanted to pack up and move to an uninhabited tropical island. Fred and Bernice are fictional characters, but the situations are all too real.
Government can seem like a necessary evil.
In fact, it sometimes seems as if we could do better without it. Let's examine what the Bible has to say about these issues.