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Re: Christ's Ways
By: Olde Tymer Date: March 4, 2019, 9:58 pm
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[font=arial]Rom 13:6a . . Pay your taxes
While it's true that tax dollars often get wasted on fraud,
graft, pork, bail outs, ear marks, and such things; by and large
taxes are essential if we're to expect services like schools,
parks, national defense, law enforcement, fire protection,
Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, foster care, endowments,
reparations, flood control, TANF, and the maintenance of
infrastructure, etc.
Taxes are also used to pay government salaries, wages, and
benefits. Though they are not holy people in the religious
sense, they should probably be regarded as such: maybe even as
angels seeing as how they are the servants of God. (Rom 13:6b)
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Re: Christ's Ways
By: Olde Tymer Date: March 5, 2019, 7:27 pm
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[font=arial]Rom 13:7 . . Give everyone what you owe him: If you
owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then
respect; if honor, then honor.
There is currently throughout America a wave of hate, hysteria,
and disrespect for the U.S. President the intensity of which is
unlike anything I've ever seen in my 75 years on this planet. I
should hope that none of Christ's followers get caught up in it.
We don't have to particularly like Mr. Trump, but we do have to
honor his position. Don't be a Mordecai-- Esther's guardian is
not a suitable role model for Christ's followers.
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Re: Christ's Ways
By: Olde Tymer Date: March 6, 2019, 8:34 pm
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[font=arial]Rom 13:8 . . Owe no man anything.
Some have construed this item to mean that it's a sin to have a
mortgage, a car payment, and/or a credit card balance. However,
the koiné Greek word for "owe" is opheilo (of-i'-lo) an
ambiguous word with a number of meanings, one of which is to
fail in duty; viz: fail to meet your obligations. In today's
world; debt is pert near impossible to avoid; but debt is okay
for Christians just so long as they pay their bills on time.
Christ is neither pleased nor honored when his followers are
known as deadbeats.
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Re: Christ's Ways
By: Olde Tymer Date: March 7, 2019, 9:54 pm
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[font=arial]Rom 13:12 . . Put aside the deeds of darkness and
put on the armor of light.
Among the first things that God created for the cosmos was light
(Gen 1:3). He didn't have to create darkness because darkness as
per Gen 1:2 is just simply the default condition in the absence
of light.
At that time, God made a distinct difference between light and
darkness (Gen 1:4). I think it is very notable that God labeled
the light "good" but He didn't label the darkness good.
I believe Gen 1:4 set the stage; in other words: from that point
on in the Bible darkness typically represents something harmful
and/or distasteful; while light always represents something
tasteful and/or beneficial. So then we could label the deeds of
darkness as deeds unbecoming Christ's followers, and we could
label the armor of light as deeds befitting his followers. In
other words: deeds befitting Christ's followers are their first
line of defense in a world gone mad with evil.
"Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue
from evil and his lips from deceitful speech. He must turn from
evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes
of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to
their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do
evil." (1Pet 3:10-12)
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Re: Christ's Ways
By: Olde Tymer Date: March 9, 2019, 7:39 pm
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[font=arial]Rom 13:13 . . Let us behave properly as in the day,
not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and
sensuality, not in strife and envy.
The Greek word for "envy" is somewhat ambiguous. It includes--
along with envy --jealousy, indignation, and outrage.
The Greek word for "strife" is somewhat ambiguous too. It
includes-- along with strife --quarrelling, wrangling,
contention, debate, and a whole other bunch of ugly stuff
associated with variance.
"in the day" probably refers to daytime when the sun is up as
opposed to nighttime when the sun is down; which is usually when
people are out partying, drinking, and picking each other up for
one night stands.
Though strife and envy can be seen during both day or night,
they're listed as nighttime behavior due to their being
shameful.
BTW: What I find interesting about Christ's commandments is that
his followers have to be instructed how to properly conduct
themselves; viz: it's never assumed they can be trusted to
instinctively and/or intuitively know how.
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Re: Christ's Ways
By: Olde Tymer Date: March 11, 2019, 8:22 am
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[font=arial]Rom 13:14 . . .Clothe yourselves with The Lord Jesus
Christ
Clothing one's self with a personage was a colloquialism many
years ago which would correspond in our day to "emulation" which
Webster's defines as trying to be like someone or something you
admire.
They say that imitation is the highest flattery. Well; if you'd
like to flatter The Lord; adopt his integrity, his principles
and his core values. But don't guess at them; learn them, from
someone that the Lord has empowered to teach for him as per Eph
4:11-15.
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Re: Christ's Ways
By: Olde Tymer Date: March 12, 2019, 8:51 am
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[font=arial]Rom 14:1 . . Accept him whose faith is weak, without
passing judgment on disputable matters.
A strong faith consists of the elements of knowledge,
confidence, assurance, and conviction. A weak faith can be
defined as vacillating; viz: one that's not all that sure
whether something is wrong for a Christian; or even that
something is right; in other words, a weak faith lacks the
elements of knowledge, confidence, assurance, and conviction.
Disputable matters are matters of opinion rather than matters of
fact. Opinions are often subjective, biased, and arbitrary,
rather than objective, unbiased, and by-the book. Opinions
inevitably invite perpetual debating that never really gets to
the bottom of anything; which, in matters of spiritual
significance is strictly forbidden within the context of the
14th chapter of Romans; because debatable matters are not
matters of doctrine; but rather; matters of conscience.
We're not talking about black and white doctrines and principles
here. Those are not open to debate. We're talking about gray
areas.
"Thou shalt not commit adultery" is black and white; while
issues like video games, music, fashions, foods, cosmetics,
movies, self defense, gambling, swim suits, alcohol, tobacco,
firearms, fasting, religious art, crucifixes, couture, and holy
days of obligation are debatable. In regards to those areas; let
every man be fully persuaded in his own mind rather than
somebody else's mind.
Those are things about which each has to decide for themselves
according to the dictates of their own conscience; and God
forbid they should impose their personal dictates upon others
and thus become dictatorial because that's playing God and
usurping Christ's sovereign prerogative to make the rules for
his own church.
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Re: Christ's Ways
By: Olde Tymer Date: March 13, 2019, 7:33 pm
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[font=arial]Rom 14:2-4 . . One man's faith allows him to eat
everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only
vegetables. The man who eats everything must not look down on
him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must
not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him.
If somebody sincerely believes that fast food, GMO, high
fructose corn syrup, non organic produce, processed foods,
grain-fed beef, raw oysters, sushi, and/or anything fried in
lard is sinful; well; more power to them; but God forbid they
should condemn others who disagree.
So then; whether or not to eat grass-fed beef or grain-fed beef
is your call; although in my judicious estimation; you run a
much higher risk of contracting E.coli 0157-H7 by eating
grain-fed beef. But the choice to run that risk is yours alone;
not mine. The important point to note is that either way, God
will accept one's diet just so long as they are convinced in
their own mind it's not a sinful diet.
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Re: Christ's Ways
By: Olde Tymer Date: March 14, 2019, 7:53 pm
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[font=arial]Rom 14:5 . . One man considers one day more sacred
than another; another man considers every day alike. Each one
should be fully convinced in his own mind.
Common Christian holy days are The Lord's Day (Sunday),
Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God, the Epiphany, Solemnity of
Saint Joseph Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Ascension
Trinity Sunday, Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Good Friday,
the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, All Saints, the Feast
of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the
Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ (Christmas), and the Sabbath.
Some would probably include Easter and Ash Wednesday.
If your denomination, or your church of choice, rules that days
like the above are sacred, then for you they are. Whether God
himself really and truly rules them as sacred is irrelevant.
What matters is whether you are convinced He does.
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Re: Christ's Ways
By: Olde Tymer Date: March 15, 2019, 5:33 pm
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[font=arial]Rom 14:13a . .Therefore let us stop passing judgment
on one another.
Within the context of the 14th of Romans, "passing judgment"
pertains to criticizing others for refusal to accept and/or
comply with your own gray-area beliefs and practices.
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