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   From: jnhickling@ntlworld.com   
      
   "Steve Hayes"  wrote in message   
   news:p1tv6d1elvv55dqo84653ina5rplc7i3n3@4ax.com...   
      
   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.   
      
   No! it's  still there Steve.   
      
   "4 No man that warreth *entangleth* himself with the affairs  of this   
   life*   
      
   Which must include  'affairs of state'.....{;o;}   
      
   For it is impossible to be a faithful Christian and follow the teachings of   
   Christ and his Apostles if one becomes involved in secular political   
   affairs, for the mood of the times and the  PC incorrectness would soon put   
   a faithful Christian into  'impossible'  situations .   
      
   Just as Tony Blair, George Bush, Margaret Thatcher and others professing   
   Christians have well found out.   
      
   Now their hands are wringing in blood over the wars and the killing of   
   enemies they all endorsed and agreed to maim and kill.   
      
   Whereas Christ commanded that we love them and refrain from harming and   
   killing other human beings.   
   "But *I say* LOVE your enemies".   
      
   *I think your prestidigitation has got you tied up in knots.   
      
   No magic or conjuring tricks.....just plain Scripture  teaching....{;o;}   
      
   Jeff...   
      
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