When religion and politics mix, it's religion that loses. So naturally I am very skeptical of any dominionist-libertarian reading of the Bible.
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Breetai
For I am not ashamed of the Gospel...
Millions and millions would disagree with that statement.
Because working full-time in order to support a family doesn't leave a lot of time for the study of old Greek, Hebrew and systematic theology.
Welcome to reality.
Genesis 3:17-19
To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,'
"Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat of it
all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return."
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Christianity and secular politics can't mix at all. They're fundamentally incompatible worldviews. I don't see how religion and politics have gotten so intertwined. There's nothing in the Bible that says believers are supposed to participate in secular politics AT ALL, yet that's all modern Christians seem to want to do.
Either your allegiance is to God, or it isn't. Either you "seek first the kingdom" or you don't. You can't serve two different masters because that's a contradiction. Jesus makes sense to me. Religion and politics have both over-complicated things.
Either your allegiance is to God, or it isn't. Either you "seek first the kingdom" or you don't. You can't serve two different masters because that's a contradiction. Jesus makes sense to me. Religion and politics have both over-complicated things.
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maelstrom
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The New Testament is not a very long document, shorter than most novels. You don't need a college degree to study it. You don't even have to learn Greek. Basic reading comprehension skills are all you need.
But that's asking too much of the modern, government-educated American. The TV is just so much more appealing... Sitting in a nice comfy pew is so much more appealing.
They don't have the attention span to read a couple hundred pages.
Thus, you have a society of American Idol-worshipers. Since they don't read the Bible, they can't detect it when preachers are scamming them, and all sorts of new churches and denominations have sprung up to take advantage of that.
When people don't read the Bible, it practically invites dishonest church leaders to come along and lead the church into the condition it is in now.
There is only one way to fix it, and that's by encouraging ALL Christians to read Scriptures for themselves so that they don't get fooled!
Mentally-disabled people are the exception, since they really can't understand the Bible without help. But most Americans aren't really impaired in the brain, they just act like it because that's what everyone else is doing and the guy in the pulpit says it's OK.
Paid preachers have an incentive to keep people ignorant to the Bible, lest they lose their salaries. It's like pest control services or pharmaceutical companies. They don't really want to get rid of all the bugs or sicknesses because then we wouldn't have to pay them to receive the treatments!
But that's asking too much of the modern, government-educated American. The TV is just so much more appealing... Sitting in a nice comfy pew is so much more appealing.
They don't have the attention span to read a couple hundred pages.
Thus, you have a society of American Idol-worshipers. Since they don't read the Bible, they can't detect it when preachers are scamming them, and all sorts of new churches and denominations have sprung up to take advantage of that.
When people don't read the Bible, it practically invites dishonest church leaders to come along and lead the church into the condition it is in now.
There is only one way to fix it, and that's by encouraging ALL Christians to read Scriptures for themselves so that they don't get fooled!
Mentally-disabled people are the exception, since they really can't understand the Bible without help. But most Americans aren't really impaired in the brain, they just act like it because that's what everyone else is doing and the guy in the pulpit says it's OK.
Paid preachers have an incentive to keep people ignorant to the Bible, lest they lose their salaries. It's like pest control services or pharmaceutical companies. They don't really want to get rid of all the bugs or sicknesses because then we wouldn't have to pay them to receive the treatments!
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The beauty of house churches (cf. Romans 16:5;
1 Corinthians 16:19b, Colossians 4:15b, Philemon 1:2b)
is that they're small enough where everyone in the
congregation can contribute something to every meeting
(1 Corinthians 14:26).
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