Calling upon Jesus to bless your destruction of private property? - Granite Grok

Calling upon Jesus to bless your destruction of private property?

Not a theology with which I am familiar.  I’m talking about Steve’s post on the vandalization of the NH GOP HQ in Concord.  While I chuckled when I read Steve’s interpretation of what the anti-GOP jerks did (“We Will Just Destroy…Healthcare for Everyone.”), here are sycophants of the Democrat Party who fellow sojourners BOOED any attempt to put a mention of God back into their Party Platform trying to use Jesus as a political club.  Yes, those folks; the Leftists that are always most likely to scream (like toddlers) “Separation of Church and State”!!!

WWJD – What Would Jesus Do?  Once again, let’s remember that Jesus came to call individuals to salvation  (and not Obama’s apostate view that it is a Collective effort) by individually repenting of their sins and then to individually and voluntarily receive the free gift of God’s salvation.  The WWJD movement, when it first started, was intended to be a personal remembrance – what should I do in my walk of salvation to more emulate Him in a given situation.  Now, given that almost everything becomes political after some amount of time, it is being used here as a threat, not a call to be still and be open.  It is being used as a slur, an epithet, as a “how DARE you not be willing to act collectively – how DARE you fight us”! 

And they miss the point.  As I said here: “they will not allow ANYONE to opt out of their Grand Plans“.  They will not, can not, allow anyone to exert “Free Will” when that person comes to a decision point.  All must be in lockstep – all for one and “one for all!” even as they try to bend Biblical values to be collective that otherwise are for each person.  If anyone wishes to “go rogue” and act on their own, well, this is what happens.  Gentle persuasion is not in their vocabulary – only intimidation and force.

Sure, there was a time when the early Church acted in a “collective” manner: Acts 4: 31-35 (emphasis mine):

And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness. And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common. And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.  Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.

That last line is often used as justification for socialism (doesn’t that line look awfully familiar?) but they forget the most important component – this was entirely voluntary.  No one coerced the new followers of Jesus ‘s message to join this spontaneous Jewish commune (for they had not been dubbed “Christian” at this point) – they heard the Gospel, accepted it, spread it, and made the decision to be with others, as is stated,  “of one heart and of one soul“.

Those behind the spray painting and those behind Obamacare and all socialist / Progressive programs will often use smooth, soft words and make the allusions that they are “Christian” in nature.  Thus, they make the innuendo (oft unspoken) that if you do not participate with us are “sinning”.  Rubbish – they only take on the garments of Christianity when it fits them.

So did the Sadduccess and the Pharisees at the time – and Jesus spoke against them, mocked them, and railed against them for while their outside garments were rich and colored, their hearts were black.  Their appearance was not what it seemed for they used their religious outlook for power and not for bowing before God.  As Jesus pointed out, their hearts and motives were not pure.

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