Are You in an OT Church?

[votivesoul]

Originally Posted by Esaias

You are so confused.

But let me get this straight... you seem to think there are no rules anymore? Crime should not be punished, and it's wrong to have any idea of truth or to recognize anyone one as having or not having truth?

In other words, there are no rules (wouldn't that be a rule?) and there ought not to be any recognition of anything as right or wrong, true or false (isn't that also a rule, and doesn't that imply a recognition of truth and who has it and who doesn't?)...

"Signs, signs, everywhere a sign! Blocking out the scenery, breakin' my mind..."

lol

I personally don't get that from shazeep when he posts. Of course he can speak for himself, but this is how I understand him:

In Christ's day, there was a very regimented system of who was and who was not acceptable to the religious aristocracy. If a person fell on the other side of the line, they were marginalized and judged unworthy of the kingdom.

The priests, levites, scribes, and pharisees all looked down on them, thinking themselves to be the superior benefactors and inheriters of God.

Then Jesus comes along and calls all that into question, even to the point of saying they are pretty much wrong about everything. He goes to the judged and marginalized and tells them the kingdom of God belongs them, and not the priests, levites, scribes, and pharisees. He takes those the system and society had kicked out and brings them into the fold, while at the same time taking those who assumed they were superior, and casts them out on their ear, effectively damning them in the process.

So, with such a principle applied today, I believe what shazeep is trying to communicate is that many modern day equivalents to priests, levites, scribes, and pharisees, especially in our movement, are going to find themselves in the same position as those in Christ's day: on their duff, on the outside looking in, while a whole slew of publicans and prostitutes are going to be invited to the table to dine with the Lord.

And so, Christ's teaching of judge not, condemn not comes into play. Jesus may show up at one of our gatherings just like he dined with Simon the Leper, only to chastise and point out our flawed way of thinking, while, another time, He may find a "Zaccheus" just to tell him salvation has come to his house.

If this is what shazeep means, then I can heartily agree. But let's let the man speak for himself...