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As I explained in much more detail here , I see government as a provisional, interim institution established by God for the present era. It is his gracious provision of an institution to keep order and administer justice in society. If we do wrong, government is God's servant to punish us. Capital p...

I still hold the traditional voyeurism/disrespect view, but I see merit in both sides' arguments (more than I initially expected at least, when I first heard of the maternal incest view). While the maternal incest view is modern, there are multiple other views that go back to ancient times - some ho...

Psalm 45 is a royal wedding psalm and was probably used at multiple royal weddings in ancient Israel. The setting is a wedding. The queen is the bride of the king, at his right hand in the ceremony (verse 10 turns and addresses her directly). The whole testimony of Scripture reveals the connection t...

The word "worldly" is doing a whole ton of work in several threads recently. This is work that it was not meant to do. some worldly institutions and systems, such as much of the transitional conservative Anabaptist church systems, The Holdeman men I see on a regular basis wear T-shirts and...

thousands of people, including visitors to Jerusalem - fellowshipping and breaking bread together. They did not need to have close personal knowledge of each other's lives to accept each other's faith and commune with one another. What proof do we have of this? How do we know that the thousands all...

The first Communion was not a church service; it occurred at a Passover meal, which were normally home-based rituals and not synagogue services; in this case it was a rabbi having a meal with his disciples. It was on the final night before Jesus' death, before the coming of the Holy Spirit and befo...

The first Communion was not a church service; it occurred at a Passover meal, which were normally home-based rituals and not synagogue services; in this case it was a rabbi having a meal with his disciples. It was on the final night before Jesus' death, before the coming of the Holy Spirit and befor...

Ah, but there's a principle... in play as well. It is also about more than meat, vegetables and special sacred days... Maybe this is an example of the Regulative principle vs. Normative principle. If you are committed to the former, the text only speaks to the specifics formally mentioned. If you p...

Thanks for the replies, they were about what I thought. I screenshotted them for reference and have asked the admins to delete this thread. I don't know if this is what you intended to communicate, but the way you worded this makes it sound like you #1 started a thread with the express purpose of e...

Thanks for the replies, they were about what I thought. I screenshotted them for reference and have asked the admins to delete this thread.