Posted on 08/26/2022 2:26:51 PM PDT by Ennis85
Exacaticly.
But the love and caring of a Christian, with no strings attached, often comes first.
Then comes the aha moment, perhaps. Then the repentance, which lasts about one second, if even that, before the Lord forgives all that the person is sorry for.
“Many like MTG, Boebert and mastriano are for doing away with the separation of Church and state.”
That’s not true. You sound like a left-wing propagandist. Conservatives support religious freedom and don’t want the government interfering with or regulating religion. You’re confusing the use of Christian morals and principles to shape public policy with the establishment of an official state religion. Liberals usually have trouble wrapping their heads around that.
Yep. They shouldn’t be but they are.
What about Matthew 18:18 ?
LOL, thank you for the correction!
Ben Domenech is Mr Meghan McCain, he was also on the Against Trump cover of National Review.
A Bush Leaguer.
My parents and eldest brother are Anons and it’s true. Ya’ll are replacing solid conservatives with your own crazy (especially local level) to move up. MTG and others are posted in here when victims or heros, but never their crazy. You do so because you believe we are ignorant and don’t get it, so you’re moving us slowly in that direction, for our own good of course. I won’t be led down that road, I won’t buy your tshirts or support crazy politicians. Truth Social is crawling with msm and they agreed weeks ago to turn over member accounts to the FBI that are threatening. Name calling and insults shows you cant debate with logic. Sad. Good day, Sir.
Pointing out that you’re posting liberal talking points is name-calling? Now I’m supposed to believe that the rest of your family are Q-anon followers? Sounds oddly like a scenario ripped straight from a WaPo or NYT article. I’ve never met a flesh and blood Q-Anon person in my life. As for Truth Social, I have no idea what’s posted there because I don’t do social media. If actual people are really posting actual threats they should certainly be reported. Not sure what the relevance is to what we’re discussing here in this thread though. Seems like a non-sequitor from you.
Please stop lying. You’re making your left-wing proclivities just too obvious now.
“Many like MTG, Boebert and mastriano are for doing away with the separation of Church and state.”
Separation of Church and State isn’t “a thing” in the Constitution. It’s mentioned briefly in a tangential document. There’s nothing to do away with.
You just gave your OK for the country to allow unbelievers to enjoy being pedophiles. Government still have responsibility.
Dome each is married to M McCain. Pay no attention to him.
I am proud to be a Christian Nationalist!
Specifically, Jefferson mentioned a “wall of separation between church and state” in his letter to the Danbury Baptists, and in the context of no government having the power to infringe upon free exercise thereof.
The first constitution to explicitly state “the church is separated from the state” was the USSR constitution.
Yes. The concept was in a letter.
I believe the verses preceding Matthew 18:18 support the admonition to "call them out".
"If your brother sins against you, go and confront him privately. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, regard him as you would a pagan or a tax collector. Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
Two points. In 2022 what is the church Christ speaks of
Is it the Roman Catholic Church, the Missouri Synod, the Society of Friends,the AME ? You do see the problem? Second point. Nowhere in Matthew does Christ direct the Apostles to dictate to general society. If the pagans remain pagan, so be it. He recognizes that the church will exist in, yet be apart from the world.
Despite what some men may believe, Christ has only one church - one body.
Nowhere in Matthew does Christ direct the Apostles to dictate to general society.
This may be true. Matthew 18 is speaking to those who claim to be His followers.
He directs faithful Christians to confront unrepentant Christians. I put to you that people who claim to be Christian and who practice, endorse or enable sins like adultery, fornication, homosexuality, abortion etc. - need to be treated according to Matthew 18.
In that last comment you made a cogent point.
Even more than abortion, which sees appeal to rare cases in order to justify it, homosexual relations stands as the primary canary in the mine in revealing compromise, since there is zero justification for it in the name of saving lives, nor any other argument of necessity, and is more perverse than abortion as evil as that is.
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