Kade
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Jesus the Almighty blessed the state (unless there is any doubt).
Much doubt.
Jesus the Almighty blessed the state (unless there is any doubt).
As a gentile, I was amongst the worthless multitude the Lord fed (watered, cleaned, and provided toiletries to) in the most desolate of places. As the disciples felt superior to them, they ordered the multitude to go away, take care of themselves, and come back later (in essence, they were telling them to get lost.) But the Lord rebuked the disciples by saying "No!" and then demanded that they serve us by giving us something to eat. He then granted us all the wealth and property of the universe (!!) by demanding that we recline where we stood (Hee hee). As the disciples feared Christ because they witnessed Him beforehand doing miracles (and not because they believed He was the Almighty), they lowered themselves to serving the worthless multitude (nations).Much doubt.
As a gentile, I was amongst the worthless multitude the Lord fed (watered, cleaned, and provided toiletries to) in the most desolate of places. As the disciples felt superior to them, they ordered the multitude to go away, take care of themselves, and come back later (in essence, they were telling them to get lost.) But the Lord rebuked the disciples by saying "No!" and then demanded that they serve us by giving us something to eat. He then granted us all the wealth and property of the universe (!!) by demanding that we recline where we stood (Hee hee). As the disciples feared Christ because they witnessed Him beforehand doing miracles (and not because they believed He was the Almighty), they lowered themselves to serving the worthless multitude (nations).
Woefully incorrect. Yeshua forgave those betrayed him (Judas, et. al.) and those who murdered him (the Roman State). This is not the same as blessing them.Jesus the Almighty blessed the state (unless there is any doubt).
lol!! +repBut what about the People's Civil Purpose?
Good stuff, let's open the borders, clean up the planet, give everybody jobs, allow free business ownership, let people hump who they want, dismantle corporations, and ride the good life till we get to the gates knowing we did the best we could while were were here!
No?
Didn't think so.
Woefully incorrect. Yeshua forgave those betrayed him (Judas, et. al.) and those who murdered him (the Roman State). This is not the same as blessing them.
But what about the People's Civil Purpose?
1) "Be fruitful and multiply," was given in the Garden of Eden as the first commandment.
2) The ten commandments were given by God to Moses after the worst time in man's fall away from the Garden had already happened and after God had already began recovering mankind. In the Garden we were all brothers and sisters. After the fall, Abraham the Father, Isaac the Son, and Jacob the Holy Spirit were established.
3) During the time of Christ, Jesus blessed the economy of the Ten Commandments condemning the disadvantaged Gentiles to be slaves to the Jewish economy. Jesus then gave the slaves a New Covenant by reducing for them the former ten commandments down to the single one of "Love thy neighbor as thyself." In essence, it became better to hear the Gospel of Christ as a stranger than to be touched by His law as His family.
When Jesus blessed the little bread given to Him in a basket that He took from a little boy, He blessed the state. When He made the disciples serve the worthless multitude, He blessed the nations over the sake of His own family.
This is all a matter of light on the conscience. You see a limited environment, but you don't see the shell of the egg or of the seed. In forming the shell around the egg or the seed, one puts God's eternal life to death. In breaking forth out of that shell, a tiny expression of God's nature is revealed within a greater environment.
Within this shell we live today, there is a lot of doubt and confusion. As the embryo continues to dry up and take shape, there is a lot more desperation.
But we aren't supposed to worry about it. The solution is built into the problem while the lone anomaly arguing the Truth has already been revealed to argue against an eternity of deceit and fraud.
Blessing the peoples of the nations is not the same as blessing the regimes of the nations. Nice try, though.When Jesus blessed the little bread given to Him in a basket that He took from a little boy, He blessed the state. When He made the disciples serve the worthless multitude, He blessed the nations over the sake of His own family.
This is all a matter of light on the conscience. You see a limited environment, but you don't see the shell of the egg or of the seed. In forming the shell around the egg or the seed, one puts God's eternal life to death. In breaking forth out of that shell, a tiny expression of God's nature is revealed within a greater environment.
Within this shell we live today, there is a lot of doubt and confusion. As the embryo continues to dry up and take shape, there is a lot more desperation.
But we aren't supposed to worry about it. The solution is built into the problem while the lone anomaly revealing the Truth has already been revealed to argue against an eternity of infinite deceit and fraud.
(When a father blesses the top of his son's head, he is being selfish. When blessing the food even before it is eaten, He is someone who cares immensely about you as your Holy Father.)
if one believes in the omniscience of God, one believes that the plan was established before the fall. God merely revealed it, as Scripture (and history, subsequently) is a progressive revelation of God's plan.
Jesus fulfilled the law in his perfection in that He perfectly keep all of the law, thus enabling the new covenant. it didn't become "better to hear the Gospel of Christ as a stranger"... it because "easier" in a sense because the Jews, as a nation (but not as individuals) were blinded until the times of the Gentiles will be fulfilled (see Romans 9). as far as the "love thy neighbor" idea: in the age of grace, there is no requirement for entering into the covenant save your faith in the finished and perfect work of Christ (his death, burial and resurrection as sufficient). anything else is, as Paul calls it, is "another gospel" (2 Cor. 11:4, Gal. 1:6). law and grace just don't mix as a condition for salvation.
i give up. the gospel of Christ is simple and straight forward, as is God's Word. is the wisdom of God foolishness to those who don't believe? you betcha. is there anything simple in course of sanctification post salvation? not quite. do those who believe "see in part and prophesy in part"? yep. do those who believe have hope that "when that which is perfect (complete) has come, then that which is part will be done away with"? Paul in 1 Corinthians claims so.
it seems to me that you manage to chase your own rabbits down your own holes and tie Scripture together in really odd ways to make really odd and hard to understand (if not impossible to understand) points.
i am ceasing and desisting. thanks for the reminder that the Gospel message (faith in Christ's death, burial and resurrection) really is simple and it's mankind who mucks the message up by either denouncing it outright or mixing it with their own untruth.
Blessing the peoples of the nations is not the same as blessing the regimes of the nations. Nice try, though.
As eloquent a non-answer as I've ever read.If you tortured me and chewed me up into little pieces, what would become of me? Well, that question has already been answered. God came and broke Himself into little parts of bread pouring out His blood to become little pieces of man in the process. Having nothing outside of Himself to leave as His inheritance, He threw Himself to the wind, so to speak, to be tormented, spit upon, and crucified. And who chose to come and pick Him up?
Look, Jesus stood as the Truth in front of both Herod a Jewish king and Pilate a Roman emperor. This should have been enough to cause them to follow after their conscience. But king Herod was drunk on wine and emperor Pilate was sickened by a false power.
Still, the only way to control tyranny is by the light of the Truth. That is why I began this answer this way.
When Saul was brought to his knees, he saw the light of the Truth. This light was delivered to him by way of the Gospel from a Eunuch. Why do I say this? Well, that is the order that authority manifests itself in the Book of Acts. The authority first started off with the mighty apostle Peter and the Apostles, it was then handed off to the little Deacons within the Church, was further handed off to a Eunuch on the street, and then next came Saul.
While neither king Herod nor emperor Pilate saw the Gospel of the Truth, Saul, the worst tyrant to ever live, did.
As eloquent a non-answer as I've ever read.
No, I'm not European. I would argue that you are far more "European" than I. We do live in different worlds, though. You in the world of wishful thinking, outdated ideas, and convoluted logic, me in the world of staunch insistence on liberty, reality, and voluntary action.We just have different views. I think you tend to be European which is no better than being African or Asian. This doesn't help any.
In the new America that will be necessary, I don't think of artists and scientists as the same way as Europeans do. I think we all should be thought of as artists just as we should all be scientific in everything we do. See, in regards to the concrete, we should be artists. This works out beautifully as an artists will starve for his or her work. Let's use a psychiatrist as an example. In helping sick people cope, as the people are his or her canvass, he or she would actually allow them to sleep in their houses. As they are more concerned about the mentally ill, they would be willing to make less money and live in a smaller homes.
Then again, as a painter is also an artist, he or she should be scientific in their work.
See, Europeans always see things in inverses. They think of art and science as opposites. In actuality, as Americans, we should be artistic in our concrete beings and scientific in our dynamic becomings.
See, we live in different worlds you and I.
No, I'm not European. I would argue that you are far more "European" than I. We do live in different worlds, though. You in the world of wishful thinking, outdated ideas, and convoluted logic, me in the world of staunch insistence on liberty, reality, and voluntary action.