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Jacques Ellul recounts that at the end of the Book of Judges (Judges 21:25) there was no king in Israel and "everyone did as they saw fit."[6][7][8] Later in the first Book of Samuel (1 Samuel 8) the people of Israel wanted a king to be like other nations.[7][9] God declared that the people had rejected him as their king. He warned that a human king would lead to militarism, conscription and taxation, and that their pleas for mercy from the king's demands would go unanswered. Samuel passed on God's warning to the Israelites but they disregarded him and chose Saul as their king.[7] Much of the subsequent Old Testament chronicles them trying to live with this decision.[10]
[edit]New Testament


Carl Heinrich Bloch's depiction of the Sermon on the Mount.
More than any other Bible source, the Sermon on the Mount is used as the basis for Christian anarchism.[2] Alexandre Christoyannopoulos explains that the Sermon perfectly illustrates Jesus' central teaching of love and forgiveness. Christian anarchists claim that the state, founded on violence, contravenes the Sermon and Jesus' call to love our enemies.[2]
Christian eschatology and various Christian anarchists, such as Jacques Ellul, have identified the state and political power as the Beast in the Book of Revelation.[11][12]
Whether or not anarchism is compatible with the New Testament is a point of contention. Some hold that one cannot consistently be a Christian and anarchist simultaneously: these critics include Christians, anarchists, and those who reject both categories. For example, anarchists often cite the phrase "no gods, no masters" and Christians Romans 13 (see State authority below). Others criticize anarchism and Christianity by arguing that they are one and the same thing. In his last book of philosophy, Der Antichrist, Friedrich Nietzsche discussed the inseparable relationship between Christianity and anarchism:
There is a perfect likeness between Christian and anarchist: their object, their instinct, points only toward destruction…
The Christian and the anarchist: both are decadents; both are incapable of any act that is not disintegrating, poisonous, degenerating, blood-sucking; both have an instinct of mortal hatred of everything that stands up, and is great, and has durability, and promises life a future…[13]