Force doctrine is a biblical truth wherein those possessing coercive power define truth, morality, and rights, enforcing compliance by granting or withholding liberties, including authority over life and death. Under this doctrine, rights are not inherent but dispensed by the ruling power, and obedience is secured through law, threat, punishment, or violence.
In essence: truth is what can be enforced, rights are what can be allowed, and life itself is conditional upon submission.
However, all force doctrine, whether exercised by men, governments, or spiritual powers, ultimately rests in God alone. Every earthly authority operates either by His permission or in rebellion against Him, but none escapes His jurisdiction. The nations may wield force over men, but they themselves are nothing before the Almighty:
"Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing... All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity."Â Isaiah 40:15, 17
All human power is temporary and derivative. God alone possesses absolute, eternal authority. All force doctrine terminates in Him.
