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To: Fantasywriter

Ok, I don’t wNt to get into a religious debate. I was just telling you that this is not as outside the mainstream of evangelical thought.


92 posted on 12/12/2015 4:53:01 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS

‘I was just telling you that this is not as outside the mainstream of evangelical thought.’

It is completely outside mainstream evangelical thought bc it is contrary to God’s Word. The NT calls Jesus our “only Sovereign” in the same context that it calls Him our “only Lord.” It NEVER refers to rank and file believers as kings. [The same passage that calls Jesus King of kings calls Him Lord of lords. We are not all lords either; there is one faith, one Lord, one baptism.]

Even more doctrinally perverted is the suggestion that the righteous will in some/any way possess the wealth of the wicked. That sounds like a Biblical quote but it’s antipodal to NT teaching. Christians have one, and only one, concern for the wicked: to win them for Christ. Their wealth is none of our business. We are not promised it, nor would God suggest such a thing. He commands us NOT to lay up wealth here, but to accumulate our treasure in heaven. The wealth of the wicked will not, I assure you, comprise a heavenly treasure.

These two teachings could scarcely be less Biblical. They are anything but mainstream evangelical. They run contrary to every sound doctrine. Whoever believes them has gone seriously astray.

One final thought. The Apostle Paul said he had become all things to all men (people) so that by any means he might save some.

Why would Paul want to save sinners, if he was anticipating the possession of their wealth, should they remain in their sins? God doesn’t assign us a task, and then reward us if we fail. Nor does God ask us to serve two masters: Himself, and money. We are to serve God only, concern ourselves with saving the lost, and give no thought to possessions that do not belong to us.


94 posted on 12/13/2015 8:18:06 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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