Either way aristocracy is slavery and tyranny, antithetical to the natural rights of man that our founders recognized.
>Men were not meant to be ruled, but to be free.
Then explain the paradox of [man’s] Freedom in Servitude, to God, the Ultimate Ruler.
>Free men may elect men to govern them. Only slaves are ruled.
I disagree. Again I point to Jesus who _is_ the Ultimate Governor _AS WELL AS_ the Ultimate Ruler. {i.e. If I had a choice to be governed it would be Jesus [He is, after all, Prophet, Priest, & King]; but if He declares Himself to be Ruler, who am I [or you] to disagree?}
>All aristocratic “right” to rule, yes. By embracing the concept of aristocracy you embrace your own slavery.
Oh, Epic Fail on the spiritual front! [You have _not_ differentiated spiritual from the physical to counter my examples of David and Saul being Divinely Appointed to rule.]
Galatians 3:28 - “There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
>Unless you deem yourself a rightful ruler, in which case you are a wannabe tyrant who would enslave his fellow man.
So you would call Jesus [and all the Saints] a “wannabe tyrant”?
Rev 1:5-6 [KJV]
“And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, And hath made us *kings and priests* unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.”
As you can see, here Jesus makes us [Christians] into Kings and Priests for/to/of God.