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Yes, it tells the story that I can't keep up with every question and comment, lol. Not young anymore and am thankful I've kept up this much. Lord willing, I've been saying enough that it covers enough generally. You want to reason logically with the carnal mind, but Jesus gives us spiritual...

We are instructed PERSONALLY to be just and fair in our dealings and to personally help and advocate for those who need help, the vulnerable, widows and orphans for example. That is not the same thing as making and enforcing laws and executing justice as a legal body. The calling of the church...

Luk 10:17-20 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy...

Mat 21:43 “Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it.

The old testament is very relevant.........for instruction in righteousness and being richly laden with spiritual lessons which we need spiritual eyes to see and spiritual ears to hear and understand them.

Amen. Looking for an earthly kingdom that is of this world is what tripped them up and cause them to miss Christ the Messiah in the first century, and unfortunately they are still looking for and working towards an earthly kingdom. Jesus tried to correct that wrong belief when He told them His...

I don't believe government should be pacifist, only the body of Christ, His church/ekklesia.....who have been called out of the world. Our warfare is spiritual, not carnal. Law was added because of transgressions.....it is a practical necessity in this world for the unrighteous, not the righteous.

I believe good deeds can either be a work of the flesh (self-righteousness) or they can proceed from faith (righteousness of Christ). In any case, how can you equate doing what sustains life to that which takes away life? We are to love our enemies, not kill them. It's not a difficult...

Strange how signs still follow the preaching of the gospel then. I assume you've never seen any. No idea what you mean by this........I'm not a universalist.

yes, I'm extending the term to the nations that once considered themselves to be "Christian" and who followed Christian principles, at least in the main......having been strongly leavened/influenced by the gospel and bible.

What I was talking about doesn't justify anyone, but they are mitigating factors that I believe a righteous judge (or onlooker) would take into consideration. In any case it is not for us to judge/condemn, lest we ourselves be judged. Jesus does have compassion for man's "helpless estate" in...

Reminds me of Jesus talking about those who worship God with rules made up by men.....having only an appearance of righteousness.

I do not single out the American church at all......was replying to a post that was referring to the American church in that instance. All of "Christendom" is in the exact same situation as far as I can see.

Beating swords into ploughshares occurs in the heart of each believer upon becoming a new creature in Christ......working in the harvest fields instead of waging war. The real church of Jesus Christ has never engaged in crusades of the fleshly kind, only spiritual crusades for the saving of...

Oh I suspect we will see plenty of people killing each other and destroying the earth unfortunately.......iniquity and transgression come to the full.......and the lake of fire is the consuming fire that He IS, when He comes in all His unveiled glory that will burn them up like the hottest sun...

Yes, there is no law against doing good...........which is not the same thing as being entangled with the affairs and strifes of this world. Jesus told someone to even let the dead bury their own dead, but you come follow me. Congratulations for being a completely sold out victim of Satan's...

If only the church would wake up to its grave errors and acknowledge its sins, the Lord would send revival and heal our land. That's all He asks, only acknowledge it! And He would do the rest and rain down His Spirit. Instead they dig in and double down on their error. But this was foreseen...

The Lord is very capable of allowing or sending any "wounding" through various means, according to His wisdom and will, but the church is the binding up crew. Unless we think killing and maiming are fruits of the Spirit.

Hope you aren't equating taking up swords and killing people with works of faith/spirit?? That is a work of the flesh. We're supposed to be dead to this world and its strifes. God is longsuffering the world's evil in this age before the final judgment. Though He is still involved in the...

Suggest you read 1 Cor 2 and Col 1:9, for starters.