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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 08:02:32 -0000, "1st Century Apostolic   
   Traditionalist"  wrote:   
      
   >"Steve Hayes"  wrote in message news   
   >"1st Century Apostolic   
   >Traditionalist"  wrote:   
   >>"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?   
      
      
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   Steve Hayes   
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