Personally, the foundation of my Christian Anarchism is recognizing that all people are images of God, and in Eden, we were given all the rest of creation to rule — but not each other. “Do not steal” and “do not murder” apply to everyone, and as the first is exactly what states must do to exist and the second is what they usually end up doing at some point (often to enforce the first), they’re not of God. There’s a lot more to be said about this and I hope you fall down the rabbit hole! The Libertarian Christian Institute is a great resource; check out this article addressing Romans 13 from there:

Libertarian Christian Institute

Proof-texting Political Authority and Romans 13 | Libertarian Christian Institute

There's a problem with proof-texting political authority and Romans 13. This article follows from my last post addressing the Russia-Ukraine W...

The guy I quoted in the original post has a very good podcast, even with several episodes addressing Romans 13 in particular. Here’s just the first one:

Fountain

The Biblical Anarchy Podcast • Ep. 21: Romans 13 and Other Objections to Christian Anarchism, with John Odermatt • Listen on Fountain

In this episode, you get to hear an interview of me on John Odermatt's Finding Freedom Podcast, part of the Lions of Liberty podcast network. We ta...

when a religious book makes you question the concepts that make sense you, it's a good time to take a moment and consider which of those two things you should be skeptical about.

not to mention that it's inconsistent with other stuff, like Samuel 8 and "i bring a sword" and "render unto caeser" the fiction that it is "God's Word" is a doctrine, it is not plausibly referred to in the text itself. the "God's Word" doctrane was introduced by the catholic church. it is not native to christianity unless you narrowly define that as what the romans who devised the catholic church said it was. which is not actually literally in the text. i think just by itself samuel invalidates this doctrine. but don't mind me. i'm just some outcast philosopher and scholar.

And if both make some sense to you, this is also worth exploring.

Complete sense > some sense