Biblical Understanding of the Petrine Concept of Submission to Civil Authority in 1 Peter 2:13-17 and its Relevance for the Contemporary Christians
Abstract:
‘Submission to civil authority’, is the hallmark of Petrine teaching on ‘good Christian conduct’ as duty in agreement with God’s will for Christians to obey people in authority. Existing studies and day to day experiences revealed instances of disobedience such as: civil unrest, avoiding payment of taxes, use of incorrect vehicle particulars, avoiding payment of utility bill, violation of traffic rules and many more. The paper is an attempt to study Peter’s teaching on submission by doing textual analysis of 1 Peter 2:13-17 to arrive at the correct meaning of the
Biblical understanding of the Petrine concept of submission to civil authority and its relevance to the contemporary Christians. In doing this, the study looks at the
literary analysis, exegesis of some key words, and textual problems. This is done in order to arrive at a clearer understanding of the teaching of Apostle Peter. The paper
recommends submission of Christians to constituted authority and the Church habitual teaching of this principle.
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