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Originally Posted by testallthings
To zeek “Your statement reinforces what I already proposed below, i.e. that we judge Nee's propositions not Nee.”
Isn't that the purpose of this (your) thread?
“Now if Jesus or the authors of the Bible thought it was wrong for Christians to hold political office, why didn't they just say so directly? Why beat around the bush?”
You could turn your question around and ask, Now if Jesus or the authors of the Bible thought it was right for Christians to hold political office, why didn't they just say so directly? Why beat around the bush? Of course the answer is a bit more complicated.
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Gee I don't know...could it be that God allows humans free will and doesn't coerce them or is that a foreign concept to you?
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“Or second, He might command the angels to proclaim His word. The Bible does record some instances of angels delivering the word of God, but these are very rare and only used as an exceptional or emergency measure.
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Right after you figure out how many angels fit on the head of a pin you'll figure out the answer to this angel question.
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This is not the normal and regular way of God’s speaking.
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What exactly is the NORMAL AND REGULAR way of God's speaking? It seems pretty normal for him to be silent outside of the Bible for most people.
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This is what in a 2006 speech, then-Sen. Barack Obama, in a mocking way, said, “Jesus' Sermon on the Mount was so radical the Defense Department wouldn't survive its application.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWpAQDx1iVQ What shall a Christian do if, being the president of a country, he faces war? Shall he follow the Lord Jesus teaching, “But *I* say unto you, not to resist evil; but whoever shall strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other”, and so condemn to death millions of his own people, who probably do not share his belief, or shall he use the sword and in so doing going against the Lord's commandments and his own conscience?
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“Be gone, Satan! For it is written,
“‘You shall worship the Lord your God
and him only shall you serve.’”
[Ironically, most Right-wing Christians these days are war hawks who would agree that national defense cannot be run on a policy of love, mercy and forgiveness if it wasn't Barack Obama making the proposition. There is also a smaller group who are of the libertarian-isolationist persuasion like Ron and Rand Paul]
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Still, every Christian should decide by/for himself, according to the Word and the leading of the Spirit (and his own conscience).
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Exactly