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Earlier you said government’s use of force to restrain evil is a “righteous, God-ordained function.” Now you say government itself “defines evil in practice.” That creates a circular doctrine... Government defines the evil, then government uses force against what it defined as evil, then the...

Agreed.. If Tony Soprano, Charles Manson and Scarface were in the White House right now, things would be less corrupt and far more peaceful and stable than they currently are. Right now it feels a little more like Nero meets Jim Jones, Caligula and the “Reverend” Henry Kane from Poltergeist...

I voted for Trump three times, and at this point, anyone who still thinks he’s the ‘good guy’ fighting for the righteous shouldn’t be voting or allowed to serve jury duty. If I were a hardcore federal judge, I’d strike every juror in my building who was still saying Trump is doing a great job...

Now there's a Christian bumpersticker if I ever saw one. “The real ‘replacement theology’ came in 1948, when Christians allowed Christ to be replaced by land. Repent.”

I was prepared to reject the idea that Hitler was doing God’s work until Snopes inconveniently confirmed that he publicly declared his movement Christian. Did Adolf Hitler Say 'Our Movement Is Christian'? So here we go... Government? Check. Christianity invoked? Check. Enemies of the state...

It’s not me splitting hairs; it’s you avoiding the 10,000-pound elephant in the room which is: If government is allowed to define the evil its supposedly “righteously restraining,” what stops Nero, Hitler, Stalin or any other homicidal regime from baptizing its own violence as righteousness...

This thread is offensive to every sane Christian who follows the New Testament and is openly operating in the spirit of antichrist. If this thread were filled with XXX porn, S&M bondage movies and Lady Gaga videos with her dancers covered in pig blood dancing at the Super Bowl, it would be...

You keep saying government may use force to restrain evil. Fine. Who defines evil, God, or the government wielding the force?

Nero being emperor when Romans was written only proves that a wicked, psychotic, pagan ruler can possess God-ordained governmental authority. It does not prove that the wicked ruler's every act suddenly becomes "God-ordained righteousness". Thats the distinction. Jeremiah calls Nebuchadnezzar...

Speaking of “lying”... Would it be lying to tell people “God says a Third Temple must be built in Jerusalem” if God never actually says that anywhere in Scripture? Please help me out. I’ve read the Bible 148 times front to back and I still can’t find: “Build a Third Temple in Jerusalem.” But...

Would I accept Nebuchadnezzar? Absolutely. And you just made my argument for me. Jeremiah 25 literally calls Nebuchadnezzar God’s “servant” and uses him as an instrument of judgment. Then three verses later God says: “I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation… for their iniquity.”...

So when Nero blamed Christians for the Great Fire, tortured them and burned them alive while trying to divert suspicion from himself, were those Christians the “disobedient” people you believe God was using Nero to punish? Tacitus says Nero shifted blame onto Christians to suppress the rumor...

If God uses governments to maintain order, then judging by the condition of the West, Team Satan appears to have won all the government contracts.

Who fact-checked this version of Christian church history? Nero, Trotsky and a guy who thinks 155 AD was medieval?

Medieval church? Justin Martyr was writing around AD 155, and literally titled the argument: “Christ is King of Israel, and Christians are the Israelitic race.” He said Christ is Israel, and Christians - be they Jew, or Gentile - are the “true Israelitic race". Irenaeus, around AD 180, says...

“Replacement" of what? If Christ is Israel’s King, Gentiles are grafted into the same covenant people, and Paul says descent from Israel does not by itself equal Israel, then calling that “antisemitic replacement theology” is turning Christianity upside down, exiling Christ from His own Israel...

The title of this thread should've been called - "Misled Christians who don't know what Israel actually is." Sunday School 101. England, 1780. Christ is the King of "Israel", Israel is "not of this earth" and the King's followers; both jew & gentile, are the only "Israelite Race" that God the...

Satan’s greatest inversion from hell was what he did to Christianity itself after 1900. Much of what millions of Christians today confidently call “God’s Word” would have been completely foreign to Christians throughout the preceding 1,800 years. If the Puritans or the early Church Fathers...

And where did the Church Fathers teach or endorse this suicidal inversion of Christian charity? Nowhere I've read... and I've read a lot of them. Take John Chrysostom, one of the towering Fathers of historic Christianity. Commenting on Romans 13, Chrysostom taught that civil government exists...

Anyone standing behind a pulpit preaching to me that - “Jesus requires Christians to let a hostile, unvetted, dangerous population into their nations to destroy churches, terrorize Christians, overwhelm all resources, and turn the country into a dangerous hellhole... or else Jesus will be angry...