Comments on: How Should A Christian Act Under A President He Didn’t Want? http://biblearchive.com/blog/2008/current-affairs/how-should-a-christian-act-under-a-president-he-didnt-want/ Thoughts from Plymouth Brethren Blogger Rey Reynoso Thu, 10 May 2012 19:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: rey http://biblearchive.com/blog/2008/current-affairs/how-should-a-christian-act-under-a-president-he-didnt-want/comment-page-1/#comment-604 rey Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:38:01 +0000 http://biblearchive.com/blog/2008/current-affairs/how-should-a-christian-act-under-a-president-he-didnt-want/#comment-604 <p>Not grim when you consider the context. In the past God took advantage of ruling authorities to secure the salvation of an evil world. In the future we're told that Christ returns to judge a sinful world that belongs to Him and rescue those who trusted Him. That would mean that in the present we live in a world that we know has been used by God, is being used by God and will be summed up by God.</p> <p>So when we shed tears its not hopeless tears as if this death is the end: we know there's a resurrection. We get married (or not) but not with the idea that our marriage (or not marriage ) is the ultimate goal: we expect Christ. Being happy might be perceived as an end in itself but we know that this happiness here is temporary and passing: we're waiting for the ultimate joy.</p> <p>It's not grim: it's transforming.</p> Not grim when you consider the context. In the past God took advantage of ruling authorities to secure the salvation of an evil world. In the future we’re told that Christ returns to judge a sinful world that belongs to Him and rescue those who trusted Him. That would mean that in the present we live in a world that we know has been used by God, is being used by God and will be summed up by God.

So when we shed tears its not hopeless tears as if this death is the end: we know there’s a resurrection. We get married (or not) but not with the idea that our marriage (or not marriage ) is the ultimate goal: we expect Christ. Being happy might be perceived as an end in itself but we know that this happiness here is temporary and passing: we’re waiting for the ultimate joy.

It’s not grim: it’s transforming.

]]> By: b13 http://biblearchive.com/blog/2008/current-affairs/how-should-a-christian-act-under-a-president-he-didnt-want/comment-page-1/#comment-598 b13 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:53:58 +0000 http://biblearchive.com/blog/2008/current-affairs/how-should-a-christian-act-under-a-president-he-didnt-want/#comment-598 That quote confuses me... "From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none" Find me a woman...STAT! "those who mourn, as if they did not" Never liked the guy anyway. "those who are happy, as if they were not" I won a million? Shoot me now. "those who buy something, as if it were not theirs to keep" I worked hard for this and you spent your days shooting up... here, take it. I say some of this in jest... but it really is a grim outlook. That quote confuses me…
“From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none” Find me a woman…STAT!
“those who mourn, as if they did not” Never liked the guy anyway.
“those who are happy, as if they were not” I won a million? Shoot me now.
“those who buy something, as if it were not theirs to keep” I worked hard for this and you spent your days shooting up… here, take it.
I say some of this in jest… but it really is a grim outlook.

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