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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 09:08:57 -0000, "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?   
   >>   
   >>>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.   
      
   Now you see it, now you don't.   
      
   I think your prestidigitation has got you tied up in knots.   
      
      
   --   
   Steve Hayes   
   http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm   
   http://khanya.wordpress.com   
      
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