Regalism

regalism=n. doctrine of supremacy of the king or sovereign, especially in ecclesiastical matters.

Regalism: What is Regalism?

From Theocracy To Secularism Via Regalism...

Most Protestants today profess that the State must be Secular, i.e. ‘there must be Separation of Church and State.’ But the witness of the Bible is for Theocracy=Subordination of State to the one and only true Church.

Upto the Protestant Schism (what they call the ‘Reformation’), Christendom was fundamentally Theocratic in constitution, whether under the Papacy, the Republics or the Monarchies.

The Protestant Schism presented difficulties to the Protestants. They sought to resolve this by the Heresy of Regalism: the Prince’s religion must be the religion of the state and of the people, or as they put it "Cuius regio, eius religio," formalised at the Diet of Worms, Germany.

Essentially, Regalism means the reduction of the Church to a Department of the State, as in England, Scotland, Prussia, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, etc.

This is a great blasphemy against God. It seeks to center God’s people on the Prince rather than on the Priest. It replaces the Head Priests with David, Solomon, Manasseh, Achab, etc.

However, while the Protestants were united in their opposition to Christianity, they were not ideologically united. This led to fierce intra-Protestant wars and persecutions. Finally, weary of all this strife, the Protestants adopted the principle of Secularism.

It is an extremely strange spectacle that the Protestants present: on the one hand, they are loud in their pretentions to be following the Bible – God’s Word, as opposed to the Church He established and guaranteed, while on the other hand they flagrantly distort and reject the profound witness of the Bible to the Papacy and against regalism and secularism.

The Bible is theocratist. Protestantism is secularist, aside from a few places, where it is (now merely nominally) regalist.

Nothing calls the lie of the Protestants to be "Bible Christians" than this absolute opposition.

See also Sean's Anti-Regalist page