Neil wrote:
Sorry Dirk, but I didn't find *any* answers in that essay, which contained many unsubstantiated assertions & special pleading.
Just one example: Any pastoralist will tell you that farming takes up almost *every* waking hour of the day, probably more than the std. 8-hr. industrial workday. Yet one never hears *this* type of "overwork" denounced. Just where does Mr. Beder get norms regarding how much work is too much? Scripture? Not a verse was cited.
And what does overwork have to do with this article's claims?

Why don't people read the English Scriptures? Too busy doing meaningless work. Can't read while you're making widgets. Can't read while you're sleeping.

Or, if one is slaving away at something supposedly meaningful, one still can't read the scriptures whether awake or not.

The point of my comment regards more to the unexplainable system ordained by man that he himself cannot explain rather than the dollar itself.

Reformed Presbyterian wrote:
The apostles told these same magistrates that when what they commanded of them was contrary to God's commands they must obey God rather then man.

[I don't see a "magistrate" or "civil ruler" here.]

"...And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye."

"...And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them, Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us. Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men."

jpw wrote:
I wish sermonaudio would get up to date on the wests participation in such matters...The western culture is made of the same nature as this African one--but the west has learned how to mask it better.

Child sacrifice is also conducted by vaccination.

[URL=http://www.bethelministries.com/challenge_to_pastors.htm]]]Challenge to "Senior Pastor" Gil Rugh[/URL]

[URL=http://www.bethelministries.com/challenge_to_pastors.htm]]]Challenge to "Senior Associate Pastor" Greg Rugh[/URL]

[URL=http://www.bethelministries.com/challenge_to_pastors.htm]]]Challenge to "Associate Pastor" Eddie Masters[/URL]

[URL=http://www.bethelministries.com/challenge_to_pastors.htm]]]Challenge to "Part Time Pastor" Don Goerten[/URL]

[URL=http://www.bethelministries.com/challenge_to_pastors.htm]]]Challenge to "Assistant Pastor" Peter Barber[/URL]

Jesus: "I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing."

"Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

"...And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve."

Jim Lincoln wrote:
Yes, you give the President the very same respect that you would give a king in the Bible. How clear can I make it!

[URL=http://ecclesia.org/truth/dollar.html]]]Define the dollar[/URL]

[URL=http://ecclesia.org/truth/define.html]]]Can you define the dollar please?[/URL]

Especially for Gil:

Jim Lincoln wrote:
The command to respect one's political leadership is a timeless command! By the way you won't get a vote in the millennium or the following eternal kingdom.
If you don't like the leadership here, go to Canada, perhaps they will be more to your liking or Australia or New Zealand?
Oh, am I rather happy the Founding Fathers weren't Christian (but in some cases good Free Masons)? They didn't have any Biblical hindrances in disobeying their leadership. Were we better off by the War of Independence, probably. Were the Southerners right in revolting against the Federal government in the unCivil War, No!
(Yeah, you caught me, I'm definitely a Yankee!)

Jim Lincoln wrote:
You mean that we are living in New Rome?...

Mike wrote:
In Jim's world, probably.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
The office of President is not high priest. This Baptist pastor really has no idea what [URL=http://www.ihcc.org/resources/booklets/rendering-to-caesar]]]Rendering To Caesar: A Biblical Perspective On Government[/URL] means.

jodi wrote:
You people who don't think rapture will happen shall be surprised when millions of people disapear.

Believers are being persecuted all over the world, even in America.

"The answer then is not to reform this failed, evil system. The answer is to abolish it. Decentralize, get rid of the Constitution, at the very least return to the Articles of Confederation.

"And this is why I don't vote. Because voting just grants legitimacy to the slave masters and their wicked system. By voting, we give them the right to claim that they're just doing our will. Representative democracy and all that [bullstuff].