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    Why Didn't God Destroy Satan?

    God's will be accomplished despite Satan. That is really the whole of it. True power is not found in a god who micro-manages Creation but in a God who so owns Creation that it moves towards his intention despite even the most ardent foes, like the devil. The same can be said all evil and all...
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    Christians and the death penalty

    A bit of study of Neronic propaganda will show you that Nero professed himself a "Prince of Peace" because he was the first emperor to come to power, in a sense, peacefully. He did not have to war against anyone else on the battlefield. (The irony is that his propaganda conveniently ignored...
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    Kierkegaard

    From the series "Maker of the Modern Theological Mind" http://www.amazon.com/Soren-Kierkegaard-Elmer-H-Duncan/dp/094357563X/sr=8-4/qid=1165430273/ref=sr_1_4/104-9437942-4227914?ie=UTF8&s=books I really appreciate Kierkegaard's understanding of discipleship and what it means to be a Christian...
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    Christians and the death penalty

    You cannot pit the Old Testament against Jesus. This is not some blanket theological rule, but by Jesus' own claim as the embodiment (or fulfillment) of the Law. That is, Jesus' earthly ministry is the filter by which we must understand Israel's relationship with God, including the Law...
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    The heart of the Gospel and the "civil magistrate"

    In my opinion you fail to actually give a context, other than saying that the world tries to impose nationalism on us. While certainly it is part of the context within which we live out the Gospel, that imposition is not our calling. The appropriate context is the good news that the Kingdom...
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    Famous "supposed fundamental evangelical Christian" heretical creed

    SJC, you misunderstood me, and my apologies for not being clear. What I said was not commentary on you, but primarily White and what I see in general throughout the "armchair theologian" world. On the other hand, I do think the comment applies to all of us, including myself, as in comparison...
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    Famous "supposed fundamental evangelical Christian" heretical creed

    I am a Trinitarian, yet, undoubtedly you will find many Trinitarians in Hell. This is not because of their trinitarianism, but because their trinitarianism did nothing to produce the Gospel in their lives. The fact of the Trinity is not merely a fact, it must produce something in us, or it...
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    The heart of the Gospel and the "civil magistrate"

    I agree ;) I think it is important to not leave this standing by itself. It is not simply some Chrisitan Law: "Obey the government". But, Paul exhorts us not for the sake of obedience but so that when we are dragged before the courts, that we might be blameless as Christ was...
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    Famous "supposed fundamental evangelical Christian" heretical creed

    Why? Whether it be Martin Luther or MLK, its still obnoxious rant. And, even so, the Gospel is about reconcilliation, not theology. What MLK did looks far more like the Gospel (and I expressly do not mean "social gospel") than what James White does. "Love your enemies, pray for those who...
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    The heart of the Gospel and the "civil magistrate"

    OK. you all have missed the point of the post. Cajun Huguenot, you have a textbook Reformed response, which what I was looking for and why I began this thread. I think we need begin by saying that Romans 13 cannot be our starting place in answering this question. Although we are using bona...
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    The heart of the Gospel and the "civil magistrate"

    If the Church's answer to the world's sin and corruption is an "other-directed" mentality, a community of selfless love, and if that's the foundation of the kingdom of God, and we, the Church, are the beginning of it, what sort of filter is that for how we ought to view the ways in which the...
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    Famous "supposed fundamental evangelical Christian" heretical creed

    If James White can come to those conclusions about Luther, he's simply got to have some serious cognitive disabilities. Although I am a Presbyterian and Reformed, I find myself once again noticing that James White is an arrogant loudmouth of little substance. I'm may not be a Lutheran, and I...
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    The UN?

    That's a question raised out of a baseless assumption. First, its a question from a decision on scriptural exegesis (i.e. from Revelation) for which we cannot know until it happens. Remember that throughout history interpretation after interpration of the symbols and time tables of Revelation...
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    The UN?

    Maybe now you can see the issue I am getting at. Private charity, public charity, christian charity, none of them will ever be effective. Christians are not called to be generous to effect poverty, but to be a witness to the Kingdom that is near. Of couse we hope to alleviate suffering when...
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    The UN?

    Essentially you have claimed that the work of the Gospel can be more effective if we get the government to behave or organize under a certain set of priciples. If you offer them power over the people of God to do the work of the Gospel, you've got some confusion regarding Who is actually in...
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