As a Jesus Wacko it is frustrating to see other Christians attempting to force others to live up to Christian standards. We all need standards to live by, often called the law, but should these standards be based on what Christians believe is right.
We have to remember what happened when the Jews cried out for government in the book of Kings. God warned the Jews that the government would be corrupted. But the Jews did not listen. God pick a person to be King and of course the story goes that the King was indeed corrupted. We must make note that God DID NOT want the Jews (Gods chosen people) to have a system of government.
In fact, as far as I can tell, there is nowhere in the Bible that suggests Christians should take part in the government of the day. We are to pray for our government. But nowhere does the Bible suggest we should USE government to FORCE people to act like Christians or be punished.
We are told to speak the truth in love. We are told to warn people of the consequences of their actions, be it physical or spiritual, in love. The old testament law was written for the Jews only. Any biblical law that a Christian chooses to follow is written for the Christian only.
There does have to be standards for everyone to follow. But those standards should not be solely based on biblical law.
From the begining of Jesus bith there was goverment, remember the part were Joseph took Mary to sign the census? In kingdoms there are governments Prince Charles their system may differ in names, but not to much from our how do you think the world goes round? Yes GOD did appoint king because thats what the Jews wanted, and they had High Priest whom spoke directly to GOD. The Founding Fathers fordge this great country by scripture. They took prayer out of school and children and teachers have been dying every since. They took GOD off our money and the country is broke. Being on one accord does make a diffrence!
ReplyDeleteJust because government survived with Jews until the birth of Jesus does not mean that God is in favor of goverment. Only that He allowed it to survive.
ReplyDeleteThey did not take God off of our money.
Being in one accord DOES make a diffrence indeed!!!
I hope you are doing well!!