rrobs
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WARNING: The following post contains Bible quotes and scriptural concepts. If you are offended by such content, I advise you read no further. In any case, I will not answer any comments that are obviously from someone who does not hold the Bible in the highest regard.
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It’s not hard to find liberal websites that claim conservatives are stupid. It’s equally easy to find conservatives who say the same about liberals. Each side is convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that the other side doesn’t have a clue as to how society ought to be run. Neither side is prone to consider anything the other side says is anything other than dumber than dumb. It’s caused a deep divide in American society. So which side is really correct? I say neither side is doing anything to help.
There is an old saying that goes, “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.” I think that is what both sides are actually trying to do. Neither side considers that perhaps the answer lays outside the realm of politics altogether. The fundamental problem is not right vs. left. There is nothing either side can do to make the silk purse because a sow’s ear is a sow’s ear and it can never become a silk purse.
The world is a sow’s ear, and as such it’ll never be a nice silk purse. It’s a question of the nature of the world, which, thanks to Adam and Eve simply doesn’t have the raw materials to be anything other than a sow’s ear. It certainly can’t become a silk purse regardless of who is in charge, right, left, middle, up, down, or anything between.
1 John 5:19, (ERV)
The whole world, not just parts of it, but the whole world is set solidly on a foundation of the devil. Unless the wicked one (the devil) wants to make the world a nice place to live, it’ll never be what God intended when He created it in the beginning. Of course the devil has no intention of making it a nice place. His whole purpose is to kill, steal, and destroy (John 10:10), so there is no hope it’ll be anything other than a wasteland.
While many think God is in charge in today’s world, the scriptures say it is actualy the devil’s kingdom.
2Cor 4:4,
Eph 2:2,
He offered this power to Jesus.
Luke 4:5-6,
The devil got that power when Adam sinned and transferred his God given dominion (Gen 1:26) to the devil. That is how he became God of this world.
All the verses in the Old Testament that say God is in charge will come to pass when He established the new heavens and earth. They are prophetic in nature and not meant to describe the current state of affairs. Until the return the world belongs to the devil.
Rom 8:22,
Does that sound like God is in charge? Is that how a loving and light filled God runs things? It’s blasphemy to even suggest such a thing! God does not run the world that way. When Christ re-appears He’ll chuck the whole damn mess and create a new one wherein dwells righteousness.
2Pet 3:13,
That is in the future. It’ll come as sure as the sun rises. Actually, more sure! Someday the sun won’t rise, but God’s word will still be God’s word.
The only reason the devil can’t carry out his diabolical will to the fullness is because of people who believe and walk according to the scriptures. Bible believing Christians are the lights of this world (Phil 2:5). No amount of darkness can dispell light.
2Thess 2:7,
Liberal or conservative, neither can do anything to make the world a better place, unless you like a place that is in travail and always groaning. It’s certainly not my cup of tea! The only thing that will really help is preaching the Bible. Speak it to everyone you meet. When you see someone who is sick, tell them God has healed them (1 Peter 2:24 [notice past tense, “hath healed”]). When someone can’t make a rent or car payment, tell them God supplies all their needs (Phil 4:19). Any problem the devil causes can be solved with God’s word. People just need to know that. If Christians don’t tell them, who will? Not the god of this world, the devil. That’s for sure! Just love people with God’s word.
Forget Trump or Clinton. They are powerless to change the nature of the devil’s kingdom unless they speak the truth of God’s word, something which neither appears interested in doing. The solution is God, not politics.
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It’s not hard to find liberal websites that claim conservatives are stupid. It’s equally easy to find conservatives who say the same about liberals. Each side is convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that the other side doesn’t have a clue as to how society ought to be run. Neither side is prone to consider anything the other side says is anything other than dumber than dumb. It’s caused a deep divide in American society. So which side is really correct? I say neither side is doing anything to help.
There is an old saying that goes, “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.” I think that is what both sides are actually trying to do. Neither side considers that perhaps the answer lays outside the realm of politics altogether. The fundamental problem is not right vs. left. There is nothing either side can do to make the silk purse because a sow’s ear is a sow’s ear and it can never become a silk purse.
The world is a sow’s ear, and as such it’ll never be a nice silk purse. It’s a question of the nature of the world, which, thanks to Adam and Eve simply doesn’t have the raw materials to be anything other than a sow’s ear. It certainly can’t become a silk purse regardless of who is in charge, right, left, middle, up, down, or anything between.
1 John 5:19, (ERV)
We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the evil one.
The whole world, not just parts of it, but the whole world is set solidly on a foundation of the devil. Unless the wicked one (the devil) wants to make the world a nice place to live, it’ll never be what God intended when He created it in the beginning. Of course the devil has no intention of making it a nice place. His whole purpose is to kill, steal, and destroy (John 10:10), so there is no hope it’ll be anything other than a wasteland.
While many think God is in charge in today’s world, the scriptures say it is actualy the devil’s kingdom.
2Cor 4:4,
in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them.
Eph 2:2,
wherein aforetime ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;
He offered this power to Jesus.
Luke 4:5-6,
5 And he led him up, and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, To thee will I give all this authority, and the glory of them: for (power) it hath been delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
6 And the devil said unto him, To thee will I give all this authority, and the glory of them: for (power) it hath been delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
The devil got that power when Adam sinned and transferred his God given dominion (Gen 1:26) to the devil. That is how he became God of this world.
All the verses in the Old Testament that say God is in charge will come to pass when He established the new heavens and earth. They are prophetic in nature and not meant to describe the current state of affairs. Until the return the world belongs to the devil.
Rom 8:22,
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Does that sound like God is in charge? Is that how a loving and light filled God runs things? It’s blasphemy to even suggest such a thing! God does not run the world that way. When Christ re-appears He’ll chuck the whole damn mess and create a new one wherein dwells righteousness.
2Pet 3:13,
But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
That is in the future. It’ll come as sure as the sun rises. Actually, more sure! Someday the sun won’t rise, but God’s word will still be God’s word.
The only reason the devil can’t carry out his diabolical will to the fullness is because of people who believe and walk according to the scriptures. Bible believing Christians are the lights of this world (Phil 2:5). No amount of darkness can dispell light.
2Thess 2:7,
For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work: only there is one that restraineth now, until he be taken out of the way.
Liberal or conservative, neither can do anything to make the world a better place, unless you like a place that is in travail and always groaning. It’s certainly not my cup of tea! The only thing that will really help is preaching the Bible. Speak it to everyone you meet. When you see someone who is sick, tell them God has healed them (1 Peter 2:24 [notice past tense, “hath healed”]). When someone can’t make a rent or car payment, tell them God supplies all their needs (Phil 4:19). Any problem the devil causes can be solved with God’s word. People just need to know that. If Christians don’t tell them, who will? Not the god of this world, the devil. That’s for sure! Just love people with God’s word.
Forget Trump or Clinton. They are powerless to change the nature of the devil’s kingdom unless they speak the truth of God’s word, something which neither appears interested in doing. The solution is God, not politics.
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