Thrasher-Green Debate

The issue of the participation of a Christian in functions relating to the civil government has been a matter of controversy among God's people for a long time. Most frequently discussed, often with highly emotional appeals and heated exchanges, is the question of whether or not a Christian may scripturally act as a punitive agent of the government. On December 19, 1970, brethren Ken Green and Thomas N. Thrasher began a written debate on this particular issue. In December 1989 they participated in an oral debate in Huntsville, Alabama on the same issue. Their written debate was published by the Gospel Defender Publishing Company in 1973. This volume has been out of print for many years. The present volume is a new edition of that debate.