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Jesus pointed to God as the solution to the problems of man. While he preached about how to live life... to be loving, charitable and hospitable, he never sided with manmade solutions to the enduring problems of man. He definitely stayed out of politics.
Jesus pointed to God as the solution to the problems of man. While he preached about how to live life... to be loving, charitable and hospitable, he never sided with manmade solutions to the enduring problems of man. He definitely stayed out of politics.
Yeah well his one foray into politics ie the cleaning out of the temple got him crucified a few days later.
Jesus pointed to God as the solution to the problems of man. While he preached about how to live life... to be loving, charitable and hospitable, he never sided with manmade solutions to the enduring problems of man. He definitely stayed out of politics.
Yeah well his one foray into politics ie the cleaning out of the temple got him crucified a few days later.
Nothing political about that. He was offended that his Fathers Temple was being used in ways that it was not suppoed to be... that was all. That is confirmed by what he said when he cleaned it out.
The merchants there were not supposed to be there, and they also were abusing the people by their practices.
Hmmm. Don't watch Glen Beck, rarely go to church. What shall I do?
You should watch him. I think you would be amazed at how much you guys share.
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Is this guy for real? What a blow-hard. Giving people your opinion on what church to go to? This guy has no boundaries.
While Jesus is primarily brings a personal, individual slant on Christianity (abba, father) to say that group/social justice is not a part of New Testament theology is ridiculous.
James's lessons about widows and orphans speak volumes about this. Beck must be a convoluted hermeneutic to not see that these are responses in and to communities, not just individuals. Perhaps they are not the state, but they absolutely are not limited to individual responsibilities. We are called a Body, a Temple, a Vineyard, deeply connected to the Triune Love of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. One may not love in isolation.
He seems to be fixated on personal salvation,and while I can agree that we are to be judged (and saved) individually, there is much more to the work of God in the world than individual salvation.
Of course Beck is not the first (or last) to accuse those of us interested in the churchs mission of social justice of temporal messianism, but that is just not the case. I suffer no illusions of bringing to the Earth a messianic perfection to replace Heaven, but let us not forget that Christ taught us to pray that Gods will might be done ON EARTH as it is in Heaven. We are fallen and will not be perfect before we are in His presence, yet he has given to us the ministry of reconciliation, to reconcile the entire earth to Him, as His ambassadors. Christ adopted Isaiahs prophetic purpose in Luke 4, and Paul and James reflected it.
This is the great idea of already, but not yet, living in the knowledge of Christs ultimate victory over death and sin but not yet experiencing it. Christ has done the work, the eschaton work, the salvific work for the world, yet we remain in a fallen world, fallen ourselves and awaiting the ultimate redemption. In this moment, He calls us His own ambassadors to reconcile the world to God. We live in a great tension of knowing of the perfection that will come, having faith in its imminence, by God, yet bearing the impossibility of its present moment while being called to participate with God in bringing it to bear.
We are not merely called to a spiritual hoping or spiritual transcendence. To do so leads either to a Gnostic nihilism or to a great rejection of Gods very creation, His incarnation. Jesus came in the flesh, calls us to participate with bread and wine and water, to live right now, right here, as His kingdom. We are called to a spiritual hope AND a physical manifestation of what He has prepared for us to do now. These are not works for our salvation, but works for His glory.
Yeah well his one foray into politics ie the cleaning out of the temple got him crucified a few days later.
Nothing political about that. He was offended that his Fathers Temple was being used in ways that it was not suppoed to be... that was all. That is confirmed by what he said when he cleaned it out.
The merchants there were not supposed to be there, and they also were abusing the people by their practices.
Religion and politics were one and the same then.
The merchants were doing this with the Church's permission.
Jesus political opinion of how the church should be run apparently differed from those of the church leaders.
Beck is a false profit.
Beck is a false profit.
Intentional? or Freudian?
I guess you think that as an opinion commentator he shouldn't have opinions you dont like? Not that I agree with Beck on this but i'm just saying, its his right as an American to hold an opinion and share it freely.
Plymco...
I already noted that it was an opinion. I'm giving most readers here the benefit of the intelligence doubt that they will understand that I believe everyone should be able to give their opinions on things.
And while America is the land of freedom of speech, he's a self-labeled "entertainer". Entertainers shouldnt be giving out opinions on the validity of churches. Especially not mass broadcasting generic attacks on churches he doesn't even know about.
Aren't conservatives all about personal responsibility? Beck should some personal responsibility and edit his opinions about deeply personal and individual decisions that people ought to be making themselves. Just because you CAN do something...doesnt mean you SHOULD do something.
Heaven forbid someone go to a church where they try to help others. Yeah, Jesus never said anything about that.
So I take you you are also against these entertainers speaking out against churches? Just trying to figure out your "Standard"
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EDIT: A little 411 for you about me, I dont do the jesus thing and I hate religions. I only believe in a higher power and not in deciples, prophets, children, or saviors. NOr do I think of holy books as the word of god, as men wrote those books.
Yeah, heaven forbid Church be focused on Christ.
And...what did Christ focus on?
Concentrate now, and not on the OJ container.
