The function of the body of Christ: Separate from the world.
And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. ( Matt. 21:13).
The perspective of the Christ of the humanist or left leaning person politically is that somehow He inspired love through calls for unity (i.e. the "great teacher" delusion). Many of the same persuasion choose as Atheists (often a clever smokescreen for Satanists who deny the one they spend half of their lives praising) to call the God of the Old Testament cruel and inhuman; and as one particular well known false preacher today tries to separate their construct of Jesus of the New Testament from that entity.
Now there are perhaps timid yet in their minds well meaning Christians who realize what the culture would like in terms of submission and therefore don't want to force their beliefs on others. That is sort of another angle to my last post in terms of the fact we don't have a Theocracy like ancient Israel did in the past; and having one today isn't a good plan either. But here I am stating that in the house of God as we see from Matthew 21:13 there should be some sort of jealousy for His name's sake.
The basic math boils down to this: How deep or shallow do we want our fellowship with the saints to be? Should it be a social club where people hang out; eat; discuss everyday activities; complain about the ills of the world around them (particularly those of the political opposition) and basically do everything the world does? Or; maybe the adage "woe unto you" should be the default response to someone not idolizing the local football team as one example. Jeremiah 9:24 along with the more familiar passages in 2 Corinthians discuss of boasting of God's power; not our own. What we exalt; we hold up as worthy for admiration and in the case of Christ; for worship. Once we see the value of Him; that naturally extends to His church and we exalt the Word!
And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. ( Matt. 21:13).
The perspective of the Christ of the humanist or left leaning person politically is that somehow He inspired love through calls for unity (i.e. the "great teacher" delusion). Many of the same persuasion choose as Atheists (often a clever smokescreen for Satanists who deny the one they spend half of their lives praising) to call the God of the Old Testament cruel and inhuman; and as one particular well known false preacher today tries to separate their construct of Jesus of the New Testament from that entity.
Now there are perhaps timid yet in their minds well meaning Christians who realize what the culture would like in terms of submission and therefore don't want to force their beliefs on others. That is sort of another angle to my last post in terms of the fact we don't have a Theocracy like ancient Israel did in the past; and having one today isn't a good plan either. But here I am stating that in the house of God as we see from Matthew 21:13 there should be some sort of jealousy for His name's sake.
The basic math boils down to this: How deep or shallow do we want our fellowship with the saints to be? Should it be a social club where people hang out; eat; discuss everyday activities; complain about the ills of the world around them (particularly those of the political opposition) and basically do everything the world does? Or; maybe the adage "woe unto you" should be the default response to someone not idolizing the local football team as one example. Jeremiah 9:24 along with the more familiar passages in 2 Corinthians discuss of boasting of God's power; not our own. What we exalt; we hold up as worthy for admiration and in the case of Christ; for worship. Once we see the value of Him; that naturally extends to His church and we exalt the Word!
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