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   From: jnhickling@ntlworld.com   
      
   "Steve Hayes"  wrote in message news:   
   "1st Century Apostolic   
   Traditionalist"  wrote:   
   >>>>>>A false doctrine:   
   >>>>>>Is one that allows God's Elect to  participate  in the political   
   >>>>>>"Affairs of this life".   
   >>   
   >>>>>I'm not aware of any such "doctrine".   
   >>   
   >>Try 2 Tim 2:3-5.   
   >>>>"Endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.   
   >>>>4 No man that warreth *entangleth* himself with the affairs  of this   
   >>>>life*   
   >>>>that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.   
   >>   
   >>>>5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except   
   >>>>he   
   >>>>strive lawfully."   
   >>>>2 Tim 2:3-5 (KJV)   
   >   
   >>>None of those supports your alleged "doctrine".   
   >   
   >>It does to me, as 'Affairs of state' would logically be  included in the   
   >>"Affairs of this life" along with the other relevant  reasons I first   
   >>posted.   
   >   
   >>Especially as the potential to go against Almighty God's own infallible   
   >>decisions as to who is fit to rule, may be entirely opposed to our own   
   >>weak   
   >>and bigoted personal thinking.   
   >   
   >>After all,  how many professing Christians in Germany would have voted to   
   >>put Adolf Hitler into power?   
      
   >Well then, who originated the doctrine that caused them to do so, and   
   >where may it be found?   
      
   There is no doctrine to do so, only a doctrine NOT to  be involved in the   
   secular "Affairs of this life" for the reasons already given.   
      
   Those who do so, are against Scripture teaching and will,  sooner or later   
   be lead into other 'errors' of darkness for their lack of obedience and   
   understanding.   
      
   Jeff...   
   "No man that warreth *entangleth* himself with the affairs  of this life*   
   that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.   
   5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he   
   strive lawfully."   
      
   So do we follow the rules or forfeit  the 'crown' of life....?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)