title: God and Government: Issues in Biblical Perspective (God and Government, Vol. 2)
author:  Gary DeMar 
description: Gary DeMar grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Western Michigan University (1973) and earned his M.Div. at Reformed Theological Seminary in 1979. He has lived in the Atlanta area since 1979 with his wife Carol. They have two grown sons. Gary and Carol are members of Midway Presbyterian Church (PCA). A prolific writer, Gary has authored over twenty books covering a full range of topics: The three-volume God and Government series (1982-86), Ruler of the Nations (1987, 2002), The Reduction of Christianity (1988), Surviving College Successfully (1988), Something Greater Is Here (1988), You've Heard It Said (1991), America's Christian History: The Untold Story (1993), War of the Worldviews (1994), Last Days Madness (4th ed., 1999), Is Jesus Coming Soon? (1999), Thinking Straight in a Crooked World (2001), End Times Fiction: A Biblical Consideration of the Left Behind Theology (2001), The Changing Face of Islam in History and Prophecy (2002), and America's Heritage (2002). He is also the general editor and co-author of A New World in View (1996) and Reformation to Colonization (1997), the first two volumes in the To Pledge Allegiance history textbook series. Gary has been interviewed by Time magazine, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, the BBC, and Sean Hannity. He has done numerous radio and television interviews, including the Bible Answer Man, hosted by Hank Hanegraaff. Newspaper interviews with Gary have also appeared in the Washington Times, Toledo (Ohio) Blade, the Sacramento Bee, the Atlanta Journal/Constitution, and the Chicago Tribune.
zlib_text: What is Government? What is God?
  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
  November 5, 1849
  What is Government? What is its principle, its object, its right? – This is incontestably the first
  question that the political man poses to himself.
  Now, this question, which appears so simple and the solution of which seems so easy, we find
  that faith alone can answer. Philosophy is as incapable of demonstrating Government as it is of
  proving God. Authority, like Divinity, is not a matter of knowing; it is, I repeat, a matter of faith.
  That insight, so paradoxical at first glance, and yet so true, merits some development. We are
  going to try, without any significant scientific apparatus, to make ourselves understood.
  The principal attribute, the signal trait of our species, after THOUGHT, is belief, and above all
  things, the belief in God. Among the philosophers, some saw in that faith in a superior Being a
  prerogative of humanity, while others discovered there only its weakness. Whatever there is of
  merit or de