Posted on 11/10/2007 5:02:45 AM PST by dano1
After months of dismissing Huckabee as a nice guy with no chance to win, Iowa's influential social conservatives are giving him a second look. The latest polls give him anywhere from 13% to 19% of the vote in Iowa, up from 2% to 3% a few months ago. Those numbers put him in second place behind former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
His campaign suggests he can win the state's Jan. 3 caucuses outright, then make a strong showing in New Hampshire, where he's polling fourth.
"I plan to surprise a lot of people," said Huckabee, 52.
To pull it off, he will need thousands of conservative evangelical voters to disregard the advice of their leaders.
Televangelist Pat Robertson this week threw his support behind former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, saying he wanted to back the man he thought could best protect the country from terrorism. Several intellectual architects of the religious right support Romney, among them James Bopp Jr., a top antiabortion activist, and Paul Weyrich, a founder of the Moral Majority. Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, who is popular among evangelicals, recently dropped his bid and backed Arizona Sen. John McCain.
In Iowa this week, Huckabee's supporters did not try to hide their disappointment -- and bewilderment -- at the string of big-name endorsements going to other candidates. Their man is not only a preacher, but a lifelong crusader for the causes they cherish. He wants to make abortion a federal crime and to outlaw same-sex marriage. He would like public-school students to learn creationism alongside evolution.
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One more thing, the GOP is filled with liberal Hillary loving fools.
I see no reference at all to bringing any “kingdom on Earth” by Mr. Huckabee. I see no Quasi=Marxism mentioned in what you sent me.
Where are you getting this nonsense from?
“Are you saying that Baptists are Quasi=Marxism?
“Where are you getting this nonsense from?”
There are some Baptists, however, who believe in an eschatology called “Postmillennialism,” in which they believe that spiritual revival will overspread the world, and then Jesus will return to take the Throne.
Actually Postmillennialism, which was the popular eschatology of the preachers during the “Great Awakening” (1735-1770 or so), just about completely died out, but there are still some who hold it. I don’t believe it.
There are some professing Christians who far over stress the use of the word “kingdom” with reference to salvation and the Church (the Body of Christ). Roman Catholicism basically equates the RCC with the Kingdom of Christ, which is biblical fallacy.
I don’t believe the Body of Christ (The Church) of this current dispensation has any connection to earthly kingdoms, and should not form such connections.
The people you find in Acts chapters 1 through 4, who were selling all and laying the proceeds at the Apostles’ feet for redistribution to each according to their need, were all CHILDREN OF ISRAEL/JEWS or prosylites to Judaism who were in EXPECTATION of the return of Christ on the condition of the repentance of the JEWISH NATION. (See the promise made of Christ’s return by Peter in Acts 3:19-26).
In Acts chapters 1-4, where you see a kind of communism, which was meant ot be very temporary to their situation, there is no doctrine for the New Teatament Church set forth. ALL PEOPLE ADDRESSED IN THOSE CHAPTERS WERE THE CHILDREN OF ISREAL.
The New Testament instructs families to take care of their own. It teaches men to labor and eat THEIR OWN BREAD. The New Testament in NO WAY teaches any Marxism at all to the Church or churches. And no Baptist with whom I labor believes any form of Marxism to be valid.
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