You're the one who made certain claims and I'm trying to get clarification. To simply reply that I "want to disagree with God's Word," is disingenuous and a deflection from answering the questions I asked.
So again, what did Paul say as a requirement for how believers are to live and how does that differ from what you're stating above? Yes, the world has changed, it always will, but does God's Word change or are we free to disagree with it and change it simply because the world changes?
How we are supposed to live and love and take care of eachother IN THE CHURCH doesn't change at all.
What did change was the world around the Church.
And over time those things that Paul admonished them for, explained concerning "citizenship" in the Kingdom of God, and His Church,
and what to beware of, and what to kick out if it didn't meet the requirements of Citizenship, had become infested with people who didn't Love God, who didn't love His Church, and who would not listen to His Word.
And what were those requirements?
Jhn 3:3
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
1Pe 1:23
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
That means leaving behind your old allegiances to serve another.
You want to be a Citizen of America, you have to leave your alliegence to your old country behind.
They are not compatible.
It's the same concept, just some people to ignorant to understand how Jesus is both King and High Priest, and that his Church lives under the Authority of only those he sets in place to lead them
In America's case we have a President which leads like Moses. The Executive Branch, and Executes the Laws that are written.
The Legislative Branch are those who determine what Laws are in the best interest of America.
NLT
Why, then, was the law given? It was given alongside the promise to show people their sins. But the law was designed to last only until the coming of the child who was promised. God gave his law through angels to Moses, who was the mediator between God and the people.
Can you see how America is designed to follow the foundation God set?
And then come the Judges, and this is the 3rd Branch of government.
They each work independently having their own limitations, and yet all fall under one Jurisdiction. The United States of America.
Interesting that we call them Branches,
Rom 11:16
For if the firstfruit
be holy, the lump
is also
holy: and if the root
be holy, so
are the branches.
So what is the Root of Our Nation?
Christ. Christianity.
It's been beaten up for a long time, it's been walked on, been living under a death sentence for awhile now.
God's Word never changes, it's just how you perceive it, and are given understanding to know exactly where you are in His Time Zone.
The word of God is multi layered, it means different things to different people depending upon how God is speaking to them directly.
Not everyone agrees that what the other guy said is gospel, because they get their own pep talk.
And when there is unity is when everyone agrees that God's way is the only Way.
You can either agree, or disagree.
But this Country America is ROOTED in JESUS CHRIST, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
And Our Branches though worn and torn, are still holding on.
God Bless America
And oh how the nations rage..