How do you handle these verses then ?

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To steel-man nostr:npub1q6ya7kz84rfnw6yjmg5kyttuplwpauv43a9ug3cajztx4g0v48eqhtt3sh's position, those verses speak of how we ought to comport ourselves towards the authorities under which we found ourselves in the circumstances of life. They don't treat directly only whether or not those authorities ought to exist by natural right.

So the governments of the world are not ordained by god ?

Uh, no.

Also, why did Jesus advise his disciples to sell their cloak to buy a sword if they would supposed to blindly submit to an evil "government?"

A more modern way that I prefer to put it:

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

Governments are ordained at least by God's permissive will. If the government is unjust or tyrannical, then I think there is a moral obligation to seek change for the sake of justice. We ought to give some amount of deference to authority that is generally just, however. How that plays out "on the ground" is complex.

The link below was just a cursory search regarding exegeting the verse you brought up. My question still stands- how do you handle those verses in Romans?

https://radicallychristian.com/luke-2236-re-examined-sell-your-cloak-to-buy-a-sword/

Also if you believe governments are not ordained by god, how do you handle this verse in Daniel?