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- Sun May 12, 2024 11:49 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Autocrat vs Institutionalist
- Replies: 22
- Views: 488
Re: Autocrat vs Institutionalist
I’d agree with US’s perspective. We’re not supposed to be a “one size fits all” nation. Some states and cities can choose to be authoritarian (the corrupt cities like Chicago come to mind), others institutionalist, and yet others can choose a third way. Where I live, people mostly self govern, and s...
- Sun May 12, 2024 9:32 am
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Were they Christians? John 15:13
- Replies: 3
- Views: 102
Re: Were they Christians? John 15:13
- Sun May 12, 2024 8:21 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Autocrat vs Institutionalist
- Replies: 22
- Views: 488
Re: Autocrat vs Institutionalist
Ken, I’m speaking of the present, not 200 years ago. Democrats frequently talk about how terrible the electoral college. America wouldn’t exist without the electoral college because smaller states (most of which weren’t slave states) wouldn’t have joined the Union. They wanted representation instead...
- Sun May 12, 2024 8:14 am
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Were they Christians? John 15:13
- Replies: 3
- Views: 102
Re: Were they Christians? John 15:13
temporal1, this forum is intended for discussion of specific Christian denominations / groups etc
Did you have one in mind?
Did you have one in mind?
- Sat May 11, 2024 9:45 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Autocrat vs Institutionalist
- Replies: 22
- Views: 488
Re: Autocrat vs Institutionalist
Claiming the electoral college is “undemocratic” is obviously partisan. That’s why I say it’s actually a Democratic position.
- Sat May 11, 2024 9:44 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Proselytization
- Replies: 17
- Views: 539
Re: Proselytization
Overall, we just don’t view ourselves obligated to obey the entire OT law, but it is obvious some things are things Christians must do: thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not bear false witness, etc.
Commandments in the NT do seem to be obligations. Otherwise why would they be there at all?
Commandments in the NT do seem to be obligations. Otherwise why would they be there at all?
- Sat May 11, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Proselytization
- Replies: 17
- Views: 539
Re: Proselytization
What I really don’t see at all is that Jesus taught us not to obey the teachings in the NT books.
- Sat May 11, 2024 3:19 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Autocrat vs Institutionalist
- Replies: 22
- Views: 488
Re: Autocrat vs Institutionalist
We can have democratic institutions (universal suffrage, direct election of Senators, term limits on the presidency, etc.) And we can have undemocratic institutions (electoral college, 3/5ths compromise, filibuster rules, etc.) This looks suspiciously like Democratic institutions, not democratic in...
- Sat May 11, 2024 3:17 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: The Israeli state?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 1295
Re: The Israeli state?
No, most of the Jewish people did not become Christians. Not at all. That's why the early Christians had to scatter from Jerusalem. That's why Paul, after initially preaching in synagogues wherever he went, would take the gospel to the Gentiles after being rejected by most of the Jews. Furthermore,...
- Sat May 11, 2024 8:19 am
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: The Israeli state?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 1295
Re: The Israeli state?
I suppose if one thinks "might makes right"; what I question is why many Christians assert that "Israel has a right to exist" but they don't also assert that Palestinians and their lands in Gaza and the West Bank have a right to exist. Or do they believe that might always makes r...