The social network that you can wear
- LIFESTYLE
- February 6, 2015
Nations, factions, political groups, and even families go to war with each other to satisfy things like their greed, their pride, and their jealousy. They let their anger loose in hopes of power. In religious conflicts there is little difference; there is, of course, that extra goad of martyrdom and a sense of God’s reward
READ MOREOur predicament now [is] very similar to the conditions of nonconforming Christians in England during the reign of Charles I in the early seventeenth century. The State then and now has felt that all areas of life ought to be under its control.
READ MOREView part 1 here: http://libertymagazine.org/article/the-ultimate-clash-of-loyalties Background: Both secular and religious governments have put millions to death for their most sacred beliefs. In the first century: Jews, Samaritans, and Christians had to endure the ultimate clash of loyalty—“either treason to the Roman state or treason to their God.” Christians for three centuries believed that “religion was a
READ MOREView part 2 here: http://libertymagazine.org/article/the-ultimate-clash-of-loyalties-part-2 Conflicts between loyalties is common. It is present every day in business, societal, and personal relationships. Most of these conflicts can be mitigated through mutual communication and compromise. Even in irreconcilable conflicts of loyalty, individuals are free to disengage from one another subject to their legal responsibilities. But it is far
READ MOREFor centuries Protestants have found a convenient division between the first and second tables of the ten-commandment law. Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, was the first American to associate two concepts: the separation of church and state and the two tables of the law. It was Williams, not Thomas Jefferson, who coined the
READ MOREIf we are to come to a correct understanding of Luther’s thought regarding the two kingdoms, spiritual and temporal, the kingdom of God and the kingdom of the world, the best place to begin is with his treatise on worldly authority, Von Weltlicher Obrigkeit (1523)…. Luther insists that it is of primary importance not to
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