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To: Shalom Israel

I am so with you on this. Nice logic. When the Kingdom comes, the need for men to rule over one another will cease. Here's the idea couched in religious/social authority, but applicable nonetheless:

Matthew 23
Religious Fashion Shows

1Now Jesus turned to address his disciples, along with the crowd that had gathered with them. 2"The religion scholars and Pharisees are competent teachers in God's Law. 3You won't go wrong in following their teachings on Moses. But be careful about following them. They talk a good line, but they don't live it. They don't take it into their hearts and live it out in their behavior. It's all spit-and-polish veneer.

4"Instead of giving you God's Law as food and drink by which you can banquet on God, they package it in bundles of rules, loading you down like pack animals. They seem to take pleasure in watching you stagger under these loads, and wouldn't think of lifting a finger to help. 5Their lives are perpetual fashion shows, embroidered prayer shawls one day and flowery prayers the next. 6They love to sit at the head table at church dinners, basking in the most prominent positions, 7preening in the radiance of public flattery, receiving honorary degrees, and getting called "Doctor' and "Reverend.'

8"Don't let people do that to you, put you on a pedestal like that. You all have a single Teacher, and you are all classmates. 9Don't set people up as experts over your life, letting them tell you what to do. Save that authority for God; let him tell you what to do. No one else should carry the title of "Father'; you have only one Father, and he's in heaven. 10And don't let people maneuver you into taking charge of them. There is only one Life-Leader for you and them--Christ.

11"Do you want to stand out? Then step down. Be a servant.


187 posted on 02/10/2006 4:41:27 AM PST by ovrtaxt (Muslims are the only people who make feminists seem laid-back. -Coulter)
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To: ovrtaxt
When the Kingdom comes, the need for men to rule over one another will cease. Here's the idea couched in religious/social authority, but applicable nonetheless:

What a radical translation! But it does really get the point across. Nice to meet you!

188 posted on 02/10/2006 5:05:19 AM PST by Shalom Israel (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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