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Abolish The Police, Christianity, consistency, Conversation, For My Kids, Theonomy

This Is How You Know When Your Beliefs Are True – Conversation With a Cop Friend

So my FB friend who is a cop posted a story about how a guy fell for a trick from the cops to bring his illegal drugs to them to have them tested. The cops then stole his drugs and took him to jail, i.e. they kidnapped the guy, which is a death penalty crime for the cops. Ha Ha Ha, death penalty crimes are so funny. Here’s the conversation.

This guy posts on theological topics several times per day. He’s more than happy to discuss theology; he just doesn’t have any idea how to answer my questions, yet he kidnaps people for a living. I could see how that would cause some coping problems and some inconsistencies in thinking. He’s only a few years from retiring from his government job in his 40s, so that kind of incentive makes it hard to turn your back on the antichrist system.

The issue is that doing drugs is a sin, but not a crime. Lex Talionis is the principle of eye for an eye, tooth for tooth–the teaching that the punishment fits the crime. There is no victim for doing drugs, so no one to sue for justice. He rejects that biblical principle for the lawlessness of man’s law.

Does he heave the ability to tell whether a law is just or unjust? He rejects the biblical system that would allow Scripture to speak on such an important topic, and he can’t turn from that inadequate system because he loves money and comfort.

I realize he’s in a difficult situation. The solution isn’t to expect guys like him to repent, but to help prevent young guys from choosing an unjust career. Stop the America worship and get pastors to teach the whole counsel of God.

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Eschatology Matters

Some people like to say they’re pan-millennialists, meaning they’re not sure what is true about eschatology, but they believe it will all pan out in the end. I think for some it is just a way to get out of having to study the subject.

But I think it definitely matters. Believing something that is false leads to misinformed and probably incorrect actions. Believing something that is true will much more often lead to correct actions.

I love what John Andrew Reasnor says here. He first quotes David Chilton:

“The fact is that you will not work for the transformation of society if you don’t believe society can be transformed. You will not try to build a Christian civilization if you do not believe that a Christian civilization is possible.”
-David Chilton.

The fact is that you will not work for the total abolition of abortion if you don’t believe that society can be transformed. What you WILL do, more than likely, is work to regulate abortion because there’s no real hope of abolition.

Thankfully there are a few who pit their practice against their expectations.

In case you don’t know what I’m getting at, most Christians are premillennialists, which is the rapture and tribulation and all of that. What I believe is true is postmillennialism, which means that the church will succeed in history rather than being defeated. There is much more to it, and I’ll leave it to you to look up.

Abolish The Police, consistency

Justice Is An Absolute

My opinion isn’t worth anything. The opinion of a majority of the voters isn’t worth anything (at least as far as determining the truth). God determines what justice is, and conservatives don’t care about that.

I found this on Facebook and thought it was pretty thought-provoking.

Conservatives support gun registration by concealed carry permit, and oppose open carry. While they cry out about gun registration, they wink and run down to local gun range to get a permit to do what God and the constitution guarantee;

They support a ban against ex-convicts, (now refereed to by them as felons”), apparently they believe anyone tried and convicted is dead and their inalienable rights have left them and their spirit needs to catch up;

They believe in restrictions of machine gun ownership unless you are willing to pay a tax that is beyond the average citizen reach;

and they support the right of doctors to declare their fellow citizens, they deem unfit to own a a firearms, and again basically dead.

Conservatives in America are either openly Marxist and Fascists, or ignorantly Marxist and Fascists.

Instead of crying peace peace where there is none, their cry is safety and security at any cost and they have neither.

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Bad Argument

carsguns

I think the government should have zero control over what type of weapons people possess. Christians have a biblically-founded duty to protect innocent life with firearms. However, the above meme, which appeared on Facebook is a bad argument.

Cars have an amazing bureaucracy surrounding them.  Maybe the biggest bureaucracy in human history. You have to license the car and the driver. You have to pay annual taxes on the car just because it exists. You have to buy insurance. The roads are owned and operated by government. For all intents and purposes, drivers have no Fourth Amendment protection. If you license it in a different state, you have to get the government to verify the VIN. Some states and localities require emissions testing.

If anything, I’d be a much happier libertarian if cars were treated like guns. We have much more freedom with guns than with cars. What right does the government have to do anything with cars that they do? It’s completely unConstitutional.

I’m all for memes that make a succinct point, but let’s think these things through before posting them.