Posted on 07/19/2014 4:26:54 PM PDT by WXRGina
PS: If you read that chapter, there is no way you can conclude that the Lord was simply speaking of highway robbers.
I could tell you “Judge not lest YE be Judged” but I don’t think you’d get the irony.
50 mosques should be leveled for every church the moosie bastards take out.
That would stop their sorry asses real quick.
Jesus walked into the Temple and overturned the money changers’ tables. He even used a whip on them.
What good did that do Him, and how did it benefit Christianity?
Sorry, this is too obvious. WXRGina is correct.
That's not what I said. I said it is the Holy Spirit Who illuminates the meaning of His Word to us--as is written--because the Word of God is spiritually discerned only. The mind of natural man, without God's Spirit, cannot understand His Word, as is also written.
When was the last time a government backed down from religion?
Many do. We STARTED that way:
Mayflower CompactIn the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the Faith, etc.Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, 1620.
But; as the old cigarette ads used to say...
You've come a long way; Baby!
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, who are called by my name,
shall humble themselves,
and pray, and seek my face,
and turn from their wicked ways; ,
then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin,
and will heal their land.
Could could post a LOT of Bible on 'judging'; but it might fall on deaf ears.
I'll chance it...
“Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? Do you not know that the saints will judge the world?... And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?... Do you not know that we shall judge angels?... How much more, things that pertain to this life?.. If then you have judgments concerning things pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least esteemed by the church to judge ? (1 Corinthians 6:1-5).
Many commands of God require the exercise of righteous judgment.
“But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us” (2 Thessalonians 3:6).
“And if anyone does not obey our word in this epistle, note that person and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed. Yet do not count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother” (2 Thessalonians 3:14,15).
“Teach and exhort these things. If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, useless wrangling of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself” (2 Timothy 6:2b-5).
“Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them. For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple” (Romans 16:17,18).
All these commands require the careful exercise of righteousness judgment. Do not be deceived by smooth words and flattering speech. Beware of wolves who come to you with a sheep’s skin.
We must be careful not to make unqualified judgments. But we must judge appropriately when commanded to do so.
“Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.” (John 7:24).
Meanwhile...
...half a world away...
50 churches WILL!! be leveled for every mosque the infidel bastards take out.
That would stop their sorry asses real quick.
Some folks will complain about YOUR INTERPRETATION when all you’ve done is to post Scripture with no comment.
as of yet,
Mosques are not being destroyed.
Only Churches and other places of worship.
They’re getting shot up in gaza...
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