    Sentence 1: What is this doctrine of God appointing  authorities called?    Sentence 2: First, in choosing violence over lawful  submission to the: secular:government, they were  ignoring Christ's counsel to "Render unto Caesar the  things that are Caesar's; St. Paub’had written in his  epistle to the Romans 13:1-7 that all authorities are  appointed by God and therefore should not be  resisted,