On second thought, conservatives give Huckabee an amen elections

The LA Times ^ | 11/9/2007 | Stephanie Simon

[kindred]

One more thing, the GOP is filled with liberal Hillary loving fools.

[John Leland 1789]

I see no reference at all to bringing any “kingdom on Earth” by Mr. Huckabee. I see no Quasi=Marxism mentioned in what you sent me.

[dano1]

Are you saying that Baptists are Quasi=Marxism?

Where are you getting this nonsense from?

[John Leland 1789]

“Are you saying that Baptists are Quasi=Marxism?
“Where are you getting this nonsense from?”

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No! I never said that Baptists are “Quasi=Marxists.” I don’t know what you are talking about. I am a Baptist preacher myself. I have seen the face of Marxism face-to-face, and have been expelled from one country by them.

There are some Baptists, however, who believe in an eschatology called “Postmillennialism,” in which they believe that spiritual revival will overspread the world, and then Jesus will return to take the Throne.

Actually Postmillennialism, which was the popular eschatology of the preachers during the “Great Awakening” (1735-1770 or so), just about completely died out, but there are still some who hold it. I don’t believe it.

There are some professing Christians who far over stress the use of the word “kingdom” with reference to salvation and the Church (the Body of Christ). Roman Catholicism basically equates the RCC with the Kingdom of Christ, which is biblical fallacy.

I don’t believe the Body of Christ (The Church) of this current dispensation has any connection to earthly kingdoms, and should not form such connections.

The people you find in Acts chapters 1 through 4, who were selling all and laying the proceeds at the Apostles’ feet for redistribution to each according to their need, were all CHILDREN OF ISRAEL/JEWS or prosylites to Judaism who were in EXPECTATION of the return of Christ on the condition of the repentance of the JEWISH NATION. (See the promise made of Christ’s return by Peter in Acts 3:19-26).

In Acts chapters 1-4, where you see a kind of communism, which was meant ot be very temporary to their situation, there is no doctrine for the New Teatament Church set forth. ALL PEOPLE ADDRESSED IN THOSE CHAPTERS WERE THE CHILDREN OF ISREAL.

The New Testament instructs families to take care of their own. It teaches men to labor and eat THEIR OWN BREAD. The New Testament in NO WAY teaches any Marxism at all to the Church or churches. And no Baptist with whom I labor believes any form of Marxism to be valid.