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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.   
      
   >So there is no "false doctrine" that the title of your original post   
   >suggests?   
      
   LOL!   
   Yes there is a false doctrine, the one I first mentioned above   
   Steve......{;o;}   
      
   Quote:   
   "A false doctrine:   
   Is one that allows God's Elect to  participate  in the political   
   "Affairs of this life"."   
   HTH.   
      
   Jeff...   
      
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