The Divine Right of kings There were direct ant 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 theredy 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