Oddbean new post about login | logout ๐Essential History๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ nostr:nevent1qqsguf4guu2s35yln30myxrj5epxcdnt45u34u2p8sfntgej85jz0ycpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygptpu4s0prf6ldgr4d0q3hw5spjt4645f6yd4uemlyw3kytd7dwqvpsgqqqqqqsnwkd2q We must understand when, where, why, and how the church has gone wrong if we are to have any hope of correcting its course. https://peakd.com/library/@creatr/the-kingdom-of-jesus-god-the-heavens-my-library-shelf
This is yet another reason why I cannot stand most churches in the US and resist to participate in the evil political system. nostr:nevent1qqsdvmdvd964ccyf23cd3l9vpwyzl3njer452rgqwsw2mnd6aem6uzspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygxpsv0mufjn7askgssa2ldkem3chr803nn8wx7xtsf0s4paujeehupsgqqqqqqs9nwrpm
I've watched what happens when long time clergy questions the ideological and (and un biblical) direction a denomination goes.
Specifically in the United States, prior to the civil war the church was still considerably anti-state. The civil war brought a push from the federal government to align the churches with the state.
True, but only if you're speaking relative to today's situation... Many if not most churches during the founding era were Protestant descendants of reformers who were fundamentally statist in their theology. Mentally, they were already captured by the state. The reformers' core confusion was later systematized by Abraham Kuiper as "Sphere Sovereignty," falsely identifying the state as "civil government" rather than seeing it for what it is in truth; namely, the kingdom of satan in perpetual opposition to the Kingdom of Jesus/God/The Heavens.
Dangit, you're a swell cat!