The theory that the State and its authority has a Divine Origin and sanction finds unequivocal support in the scriptures of almost all religions in the world. In the Mahabharata it is recounted That the people approached god and requested him to grant tham a ruler who should save them From the anarchy and chaos prevailing in the state of nature. Without a Chief O Lord they prayed We are perishing Give us a Chief whom we shall worship in cancer and who will protect us the theory of divine origin however received new impetus with the advent of christianity render unto caesar the thing that are Caesar said jesus christ and paul amplified this in his Epistle the Romans which has been quoted by writers time and again in support the theory of Divine origin we are thus told Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers for there is no power but of god: the powers that be are ordained of God Whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God :and they that resist shall receive themselves damnation
The theory of divine origin so enunciated believed in and accepted thus implied
1. That god deliberately created the state and this specific act of his grace was to save mankind from destruction
2. That god sent his deputy or Vice-regent to rule over mankind The ruler was a divinely appointed agent and he was responsible for his actions to god alone whose Deputy the ruler was All were ordained to submit to his authority and disobedience to his command was a since for which there was divine punishment
The Divine Right of kings There were direct and precise instructions to the faithful Although the Roman Empire was a pagan empire paul had ordered christians to accept its authority as derived from god and there by admitted that the state whatever the personal morality of the monarch was divinely ordained During the middle Ages in europe the theory of the divine origin of the state was transformed into the doctrine of the divine right of kings The temporal authority having emerged victorious over the spiritual authority claimed that it was a divine favour to the vice-regents of divine authority Even today the queen of great britain is a queen By the grace of god
The Stuart in England Found refuge in the doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings and its leading exponent was James I Sir Robert filmer was its enthusiastic supporter bousset advocated it in France and supported the despotism of Louis XIV it was claimed that Kings ruled by divine right and the subjects had no recourse against them kings wrote Jame I are breathing images of God upon earth and disobedience to their commands was disobedience to God As it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do so it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do or to say that a King cannot do this or that Even rebellion in the cause of religion was deemed a sacrilege because.