He loves holy monarchies.
You are likely the first person to every use the term "holy monarchies". The bible certainly doesn't use that term because it isn't accurate. The Kings of Israel were not priests nor were they eligible to be priests. The priesthood was quite completely separate, one descending from David, the other from Levi.
And there would be none of that voting you care so little for.
There is nothing at all biblical about the population voting for representatives to rule over them. Not only does God not endorse such governments but He actively dislikes them. This is because God is wiser than you are, Hoping. He understands that the majority of people are evil and that therefore the only possible end result of such a government is ever increasing evil, which is precisely was every single democratic nation in the history of the planet has demonstrated.
Try to stick with the context of our back-and-forth.
I never left the topic. Thanks for proving me right though! LOL!
Agreed, plus they won't allow the public to participate in governing
It isn't the place of the governed to participate in their governance. This statement betrays an ignorance on your part of what the function of government is, which is no surprise since you think its proper for the majority to vote a portion of my life away from me to benefit those who will not produce anything.
Jesus can take the honor for that teaching.
His second most important commandment was to love our neighbor as we live ourselves. (Mark 12:33, Luke 10:27)
Do please try not to blaspheme on this Christian website please! You ignorance of God's word is genuinely astounding. If you want to perpetuate this personal myth of yours about not sinning, maybe you should stay away from places where you don't know the extent the people you're interacting with have studied God's word without your input.
As I said in my last post, you have no idea what love is.
It is your neighbors that government welfare kills.
Those in government love to spend other people's money while jealously guarding their own - money that they did not earn, by the way.
They wail and moan about walls at our southern border while they live safely in gated communities.
They want to take away my guns while keeping armed guards with them at all times.
They increase my taxes while exempting themselves from those same taxes.
They make me a criminal for trading a stock with insider knowledge while exempting themselves from that same regulation.
I could go on for hours listing their hypocrisy, which is what Jesus' teaching was about. His statement had exactly nothing to do with government at all, much less government welfare. Had it been, it would have been proof that He was a fraud, by the way.
We can certainly ask Him for His gracious intercession on events.
That is the opposite of authority flowing up hill, Hoping. Once again, thank you for conceding the point.
I find it odd, then, that you feel so comfortable speaking so without compassion or love.
I despise you, Hoping. I think you're a liar and a fool who does nothing but impugn the reputation of the God who died for me and for Whom I would gladly die. You deserve nothing from me but my hatred, ridicule and derision and, until you repent, that's nearly all you'll get. The very fact that I've been as substantive here as I have been is a mercy. Had you made that idiotic comment about Jesus getting credit for teaching that we are our brother's keeper in my physical presence, I'd have slapped your face and physically removed you from my presence.
I had you on ignore at the time and didn't see the following response until today....
I AM my brother's keeper.
No, Hoping, you are not! It's sin, literal deadly sin, to think otherwise! It is not loving, it is not godly, it isn't righteousness of any sort. Its a lie and people die every single day because of its consequences.
2 Thessalonians 3:10 For even when we were with you, we
commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.
I could quote much more, but you'd ignore it anyway.
And I have a government that can reach were I cannot.
It is not the proper role of government and it isn't true. Even if it were true, you are responsible for what you can do and nothing else. Help where you can help and let others help where you cannot. The point being that you directly helping someone stands a much greater chance of actually helping them than any government program ever could. Not only that, but with the government out of the pockets of its people, more people are able to afford to do more helpful things in a whole variety of creative ways that the government has no incentive to even try to create.
If we are not in agreement with our government, we can always vote them out...or go somewhere else.
Yeah, sure. That's worked out well, hasn't it! Every day, regardless of who is voted into office, the poor increase in number and sink deeper into poverty, just as the government wants it, by the way. You are literally financing the proliferation of a permanent underclass that is there for the sole purpose of being dependent upon government so as to grease the electoral wheels of those in power who depend on that underclasses' vote. In short, it is precisely the institution of voting that proliferates the poor and sustains them in their poverty. Voting is to poverty what wind is to sea foam.
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