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Originally Posted by aegsm76
E - by this I presume you mean our connection with previous generations who believed the truth, like we believe?
Many individuals that come into church do not want to have links with their past ancestors.
Since their ancestors did not believe the truth and may have led unholy lives.
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I mean one's connection to one's family, tribe, and nation (nation in the Biblical sense), as well as one's adopted connection to the covenanted people of God (all the saints, past and present). The Gospel is national in scope, it is for the nations. Nations will be saved, as distinct nation-groups. Modern individualism is a satanic lie that has demonstrated its destructive influence wherever it rears its evil head.
In American public skoolz, we were taught America was all about "rugged individualism", that was its core founding ideal. The very essence of distilled liberty. But that's a lie. The founding documents (including those that predate the Declaration of Independence) illustrate decisively that the founding generation largely viewed themselves as the millennial Israel of God, established as a united ethnostate of Christian theodicy for the purpose of propagating the Gospel throughout the world.
The "rugged individualism" we were taught about is false, and an intentional deception. People are members of families. Families are members of tribes and nations. Family, tribe, and nation provide security, safety, progress, and development for the individual. By jettisoning the collective aspect of human society based on family association, a vacuum is created, ready to be filled by THE PURELY POLITICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL STATE. Which is an abnormal condition, a pathology of human nature, and nothing other than BABEL.