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July 19, 2016
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July 19, 2016
MG said (July 20, 2016):
've been a Christian for about 8 years know and how I understand what it says in the Bible is this; God gave rule over the earth to man but through sin man had/has handed that rule over to the Devil/Satan/the angel formerly called Lucifer. Jesus came back to earth and on the cross and at the resurrection he to took back that rule. Every human that surrenders their heart and spirit to Jesus not only has a future in heaven but a role to play in God's/Jesus's rule/kingdom.
The role of the Christian is to be stewards of God's kingdom on the earth but it will only be built in all it's glory and fullness when Jesus comes back and destroys the Devil's minions and his key puppet the Anti-Christ. What we are seeing is the beginning of the final onslaught of the Devil's minions (which will climax with the Anti-Christ taking total power of the earth as the leader of a One World Government. Once that happens Jesus will come back to defeat the Devil, the Anti-Christ and all his minions and build his kingdom in all it's glory and fullness.
Until that time Christians have to keep faith and be the best stewards they can be of God's kingdom; that means showing love, glory and honor to God and other people wherever you live and whatever job you have etc...
GG said (July 20, 2016):
Sometimes I think you post things just to see if we're still awake. Mr Dinghorn is just one more 'intellectual' who claims to know what Jesus 'really' meant to say.
The beauty of Christianity (as taught in NT) is its simplicity. And I KNOW what Jesus meant because His words are recorded for us. (They're the red ones.)
You either believe Genesis 1:1 and John 1:1 or you don't. If you don't, you're not a Christian.
Thanks for letting me rant. I'm heading back to my Lazy Boy and wait for tomorrow's Makow. com email.
Stephen Coleman said (July 20, 2016):
Over the ages tribal groups have grown into vast nations and having a loose system such as the articles of the confederation would leave the individual states open to divide and conquer tactics and chaos. This is why the founding fathers pushed for a strong central government, this is why Lincoln fought the civil war, for America divided literally meant the end of democracy worldwide and the return of despotic royalty as our rulers.
But we the American people have degenerated to the point that we allow our government to have evolved into a taker rather than a protector, a liar and all integrity lost.
Will Christianity allow us to take back our power? That depends on the Christian and whoever may be running his particular denomination. But the anarchists and libertarians are sorely mistaken and fail to learn from history. Such fairy tales would be nice to live in, but so far I don't know of any that have lasted for long.
Sid Green said (July 20, 2016):
I liked Gary's article, I mostly agree, the Russian author Tolstoy advocated Christian Anarchy in his final personal works, like "Confessions" and "What I Believe". As for Makow's response, indeed the subversion of the central government's subversion is a problem, but what kind of government do you propose?
(rhetorical question?)
Robert K said (July 19, 2016):
Kinghorn has made the amazing discovery that Jesus was a Libertarian! What a comedown for the One whom Christians have traditionally believed to be the Son of God, the agency through which the universe was created, the only man exempt of sin, the perfect model and teacher of mankind, the reconciler of wayward humanity with their divine Father, etc. Apparently they got it all terribly wrong: in reality the one they looked to as their guide and saviour was just an early exponent of anarchism and the precepts of the Austrian School of Economics.
In all matters of policy and philosophy the moulders of opinion endeavour to control minds through the dialectical process--the offering of an option and its purported opposite, thesis and antithesis. The Austrian School of Economics is the contrived antithesis offered up against Marxism. It is, if anything, even more completely a product of Jewish minds than Communism, and was, like Fabian Socialism, largely developed for implantation into the intellectual elite at the London School of Economics, backed by the resources of bankers like Sir Ernest Cassel (for Fabianism) and the Rockefellers (for Ludwig von Mises et al.)
Libertarianism was subsequently popularized by the ironically, or contemptuously, named "Collective" consisting of Jewish worshippers congregated about author Ayn Rand (real name Alisa Rosenbaum).
Anyone who has dealt with doctrinaire Libertarians will know that they are typically rigidly dogmatic and impervious to other points of view--which is precisely the phenomenon one also encounters among Marxists. Both these "schools" pride themselves on their rational purity and toughness vis-Ã -vis the profane. Love for all one's fellows is not part of their program.
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Imran said (July 20, 2016):
Pagans do not go to Heaven or Hell. They die just like just like other living creatures. Thanks to philosophy and the Catholic Church this fact has been mostly been forgotten down the centuries:
http://theswordbearer.org/spD027a_soul.html
Christians are supposed to live as sojourners upon the earth for a reason. We are dominion-less because Israel did not accept the Messiah. We certainly could never have power over all the pagans if Gary was right because too many of them would not have the new birth and would not be selected by God to be spirit beings.
Plenty of times the letters of the Apostles which form the Bible stated that they expected the Lord to return. But since Israel did not accept Him (among other factors no doubt) the return was delayed down the centuries.
After the Lord returns, the pagans will serve the saints as God intended. This is why in Israel only a foreigner could be a slave. Although an Israelite could choose to serve another Israelite and then after a period of time choose to be his slave permanently.
So Garry is wrong. We expect our Lord and Master to return and give us dominion. And then a pagan like Fozdyke will serve us or else be culled like any other livestock according to the Master's will.