by John Weaver

What is treason? The Christian must answer that treason is unfaithfulness to God and His law. Idolatry is treason because it seeks to overthrow God and His law system. It seeks to replace God with an alien authority and God’s law with an alien system. Disobedience and unfaithfulness to God is treason because it is idolatry.

The Constitution of the United States defines treasons in Article III, Section 3, paragraph 1, as follows:

“Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid or comfort.”

Treason, according to our Constitution, consist of fighting against the people of the United States or giving aid to the enemies who are fighting against the people of the United States. The question must be asked: ‘What if the enemy of the citizen and the Christian is the state turned traitor against the law of God and its own Constitution?” It would then be an idolatrous and treasonous government, one that defies God and man. It would be a usurper, a tyrranical and dictatorial government. Any citizen or Christian who supports such a government would be guilty of treason and idolatry toward the one True and Living God. Any citizen or Christian who participates in such a system would merit the righteous judgment of God upon themselves along with the idolatrous system.

Statism is totalitarianism. It is the civil government playing god. Statism is idolatry. It is a claim to total jurisdiction on the part of the state or federal government. As far as the citizen is concerned, statism is the idea that government is always right and can do nothing wrong. It is the idea that government can do whatever it desires. Might makes right. That concept, on the part of the citizen, is equally idolatrous, for it imputes to government perfections, powers and authority that God has never granted. Government can be an idol just as much as any other false god.