DEMOCRACY
What is Democracy?
The power to form the government rest on the people, the people have the right is choose or vote their leaders.
It is giving the freedom to the people to choose their government provided they are in an unbiased environment.
Democracy provides an environment that respects human rights and fundamental freedoms, and in which the freely expressed will of people is exercised. People have a say in decisions and can hold decision-makers to account. Women and men have equal rights and all people are free from discrimination.
Why democracy is important?
True democracy promotes values like religious freedom, worker rights, human rights, right to quality education & health care, social justice, right to get elected, voting right, RTI by create more secure, stable and prosperous country.
Democracy is from God.
God when created mankind gave the option to choose between the tree of life ( Word of God ) and tree of the knowledge of good and evil ( man created religion and ideology ).
Example of how mankind loses its democracy
Adam by deceit was made to believe a lie by which he lost his authority to rule over earth and many other right, he lost his democracy that is to eat from the tree of Life.
What is an undemocratic government? When the power and government rest on a person or an organisation with an ideology and vested interest rather with the people. They do not work in the interest of the people. Example of undemocratic government Ultra-nationals Communist Religious rule Military rule King ship etcAll form of dictatorship How serious is this in the eyes of the Lord?
Genesis 11:3-4 3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
The people were about to come under one leader which was a great danger that is all the people will come under one man control. Genesis 11:8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. HE even divided the earth.
Why choosing a worldly government over Jesus Government is dangerous, this is explained in verse 1 Samuel 8: 11 – 17
1 Samuel 8:6–7 — The New International Version (NIV) 6 But when they said, “Give us a king to lead us,” this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the Lord. 7 And the Lord told him: “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.
Characteristics of an undemocratic government , unequal wealth distribution
1 Samuel 8: 11
11 He said, “This will be the custom of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and his horsemen, and they will run before his chariots.
12 He will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and those ⌊to do his plowing⌋d and to reap his harvest, and those to make weapons of war and the equipment for his chariots.
13 He will take your daughters as his perfume makers and as cooks and as bakers.
14 He will take the best of your fields and your vineyards and your olive trees and will give them to his servants.
15 He will take a tenth of your seed and your vineyards and give it to his high officials and to his servants.
16 He will take your male slaves and your female slaves and the best of your young mene and your donkeys and ⌊will use them for his projects
17 He will take a tenth of your flocks,g and you yourselves will become his servants.
Basically, people are made to work for the Undemocratic government and Pay taxes, nothing more the government expects from people.
Sol.Dr.Benedict