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Would you support a 'Christian Zone'?

bhsmte

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Great question!

Christians do disagree on some interpretations of God's law. Some Christians depend on attorneys and other legal eagles to interpret law for them, including how God's law and man's law co-exist on one land. I am trying to shine understanding between the two by being on this forum.

The simplest law in a Christian community would be based on common law: if a man is harmed or his property is injured or lost, the man who harmed will compensate and restore the harmed man and his property. This is loving your neighbor as yourself. Most Christians have a conscience to cooperate this way if they are familiar with scripture and take it to heart.

If for some reason, working it out in private is not forthcoming, the matter could be heard before elders of the land to help solve the problem.

In the Old Testament, there were judges and elders and secretaries in the land who could help out with matters among God's people.

Christians have attorney's determine who has interpreted God's law correctly???????????

And who exactly, gets to determine who these "elders of the land" are?
 
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You have the freedom to live your life without God.

But in a Christian community, which is the thread's topic, of course, under God.

Public servants' Oaths of office under the dejure Constitution were always under God. Then the secular government added themselves to it and stopped taking the oath.

Why does the constitution allow people to either not believe in a God and or believe in a different God than the Christian God?
 
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I do not need a politician to look up to. I have no use for a president. I do not need a policeman giving me a ticket for things which don't harm or injure others. I will not live my life by man's color of law and the administrative courts system which enforce color of law. I do not need to be arrested for going from point a to point b without a drivers license. I do not need to be summoned to court for a foreclosure. I will not be compelled to use elastic currency without remedy.

To name a few.... lol

Banks can take your money at any time and frequently monetize your paycheck up to ten times its value.

Do you stuff your money in the mattress?
 
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Well let's hear your ideas :)

Nothing to improve on the current system -- remember what Churchill said, Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others.

There's a lot of corruption, but if we clear the rascals out, new rascals will eventually replace them.
 
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Everyone would have free electricity if the corporations did what is right instead of being driven by greed.
What? How do you expect private entities to provide a service to everyone for free? Are you saying you would rather pay for it through taxes and be rationed a certain amount of power?
Everyone would have much better internet service everywhere it is available if non-greedy businesses and entrepreneurs had any chance at all in the last hundred years.
That makes zero sense. They're constantly competing to make it available in more areas and at faster speeds. They're expanding and improving all the time.
Food (actually healthy food) instead of poison would be on everyone's dinner table inexpensively if the enemy wasn't in charge of society, corporations and government. (as much as Yhwh allows the enemy to be)....
Who is "the enemy?"

What's stopping you from taking responsibility for what you eat and buying fresh food? Where I am, it's much cheaper per serving than processed food, since you're paying for fewer rounds of labor/machinery/packaging/etc.
 
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You would have to write quite a bit to explain to me how you're going to do all of these things for yourself. The very fact that you're able to post using reasonably fast wifi without paying ridiculous amounts is due to government regulation.
Government was created to serve man; man was not created to serve government.

What about if you do harm others, or if someone harms you?

We can work it out privately between ourselves; I will justly compensate and restore any man or woman whom I unintentionally harm. I would never intentionally harm anyone. If someone harms me, we can work out a payment plan, or I can forgive them, depending on the situation. If enforcement is necessary, I can get assistance from the local sheriff.

I want to make sure that you or that person gets a ticket.
First, you must qualify as one of my peers. That means you must be in my same jurisdiction, which you are not. You are a third-party interloper.
 
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Only God can do that. God reveals himself, we don't reveal him. God isn't a "thing" that we can put under a microscope. He is the creator. The best thing we can do is let his light shine through us.

And again, when that happens we get wildly contradicting ideas of what that god is. It doesn't appear to be a very good way of figuring out what's true about god, or if god is actually real.
 
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All I say is founded in law. Give me some time and I can back it up with case law for you. I still doubt it would make any difference to you.

We can agree to disagree, because I'm not budging on this one.

It will only make a difference to me if you make a logical case. It sounds like you're not willing to do your civic duties, & you're not going to budge on it, so yeah this is pointless.
 
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