There's also no indication in the New Testament that civil magistrates are not qualified to be making judgments about doctrine.
Stop resorting to biblicism: have a clear understanding of what is actually within the scope of Scripture’s sufficiency and what is not.
There's no indication in the New Testament that civil magistrates are qualified to be making judgments about doctrine.
“There aren't any of the people on the other side who really think that they want Donald Trump or Joe Biden being the arbiter of ecclesiastical orthodoxy.”
“But there is a problem with saying, ‘This is the ideal political structure for when we get our guy.’ That's totally unprincipled. We don't think about the church that way. We don’t say, ‘Here are the things that the pastor should do when we get the pastor that we really want.’”
“So you have to ask the principal question: What are the qualifications for the civil magistrate and what are their responsibilities?”
“Where in the New Testament — where anywhere in scripture, not talking about the Mosaic Law and talking about the covenantal Israelite king — where is there anywhere talking about a gentile nation in which the requirements for the magistrate are put in these theological terms or that the magistrate has the qualifications for making those determinations?”
“Think about how careful the New Testament is in 1 Timothy 3. These are the qualifications for those called to office. And you know how hard it is for us, for those of us ordained to office to do that work well. There's no indication that civil magistrates have those sorts of qualifications to be making those kinds of judgments.”
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@solamediaorg You are assuming a biblicistic account of the sufficiency of Scripture.
Arguments of silence do not work unless you can prove you ought to expect X to be in Scripture.
But Scripture is not an exhaustive sourcebook on politics and civil governance.
Jake Meador is a walking transgression of the 6th and 7th commandments. He is obese and visibly, manifestly, revoltingly effeminate and soft. Appealing to him as an "authority" demonstrates how unnatural, undiscerning, and ultimately unchristian you are.
The Henry Nowak scandal is quite literally the plot of Camp of the Saints in a microcosm.
The hostile, violent foreigner isn’t the main antagonist, the police (represented all of a fundamentally backwards society) more concerned about supposed “racism” than you bleeding out are the main villain.
Even if he had, it changes nothing.
We have GOT to stop giving "racism" such a high moral-priority.
It is a tool of multicultural enforcement, a left-wing political perjorative.
It may have a neutral definition, but that is a ploy for disarming you.
It's function is to be used prejudicially against unreconstructed host populations.
It does not matter how something is defined, it only matters how it is used, and "racism" is only used as a political weapon against host/heritage populations. No more, you don't win by using your enemy's rhetoric. You win by refusing it legitimacy.
Stop using the word, stop giving it legitimacy, stop imposing a post-war liberal moral framework on everyone and everything. Let it die.
If you ever want justice, real justice, it starts here.
When police let a white kid bleed out and die while feeding dinner to his knife-wielding non-white murderer, all because the incentive structure is such that letting a white victim die in custody is less scandalous than being accused of "racism," you need to understand you have a problem with word "racism," and you need to stop using it.
Instead of denying you're racist, instead of claiming they're the real racists, instead of insisting everyone can be racist, stop using the term entirely.
Just stop. Refuse it oxygen. Ignore it or mock it or, better yet, condemn it's use. Turn the tables. Morally condemn those who seek to use it in any context.
Impose our moral vision instead of reinforcing the enemy's.
There is no baby in this bathwater.
If you live in LA, you need to show up to vote for Pratt. The changes that could be achieved by having a deportation-friendly mayor in LA of all places are hard to understate. Don’t forget and don’t write it off.
If you’re in Los Angeles, it is so important that you vote for Spencer Pratt. You can still do it today/tomorrow. We may never get a chance like this again.
If we show up we will win
They're starting to get worried. The spent years riding this craze that was heavily influenced and boosted by social media companies and are now like "oh that was weird, wasn't it?" As if they werent the staunchest supporters.
Both men said “I can’t breathe”, but only one man’s death was covered relentlessly by the media.
The only conclusion that can be drawn is that the legacy mainstream media is incredibly, hatefully racist against Whites.
@douglaswils Can a consistent Christian have a problem with statistically-verifiable general group disparities regarding violent criminality and impulse control?