When Will Reformed Believers Function As Priests and Kings?


I will never forget when at the catholic university (famous for sports these days
and where I was teaching). It was a dinner and the president of the university
was sitting right across from me, a guest from the vatican sitting right next to him to his right.
I asked him, do you think Catholicism is augustinian, a question that he liked very much..
whereas for me it confirmed they were of the same evil cloth... he answered 'but
of course, the university is Augustinian to its core'. Other theologians at the table got enthused
by that and began giving their own festschrifts to Augustine, little anecdotal gems to
impress the vatican visitor. No, I was not and am not catholic, but faculty were invited
to such events. Another time, Dussel, the famous liberation theology professor came,
giving speeches on his view of christian theology as essentially compatible to marxism.
Everyone was clapping for him too...
and I made sure to sit right next to him at the lunch and I asked him in a totally neutral
voice, where did he find in scripture compatibility to marxism, as I would like to study this...
all tongue in cheek of course. Being so huge an ego, he didn't realize I was questioning
his thesis and went into a big speech about his views, and again, all the theologians
at the table nodding their heads in homage to this rat dressed up as a christian.
 
I'm neither calvinist or free will-er...

I simply worship God and obey Him, and wait for Him
to bring us to Paradise, and restore us to our glorified nature...
in His new Creation...
to me that is being saved..
and that is my Hope
and Abraham's hope ...

He is my only Lord..
not this world or body or preachers or translations or commentaries..
only Him. He is my lord.
He makes me pure and sweet and new...

He is who I worship and love.
everything else is but waiting...
and carrying my cross until His return upon the Clouds..
to save us.
I am interested. What do you do in order to carry your Cross? Anything in particular?
 
I am interested. What do you do in order to carry your Cross? Anything in particular?
being alive in this world is the trial and cross...
with its treachery all around
such that his sons and daughters (us) would not be able to even hear Him..
without His constant help to remain separate from it...
and stay IN Him.

our cross is the separation from Him, a real separation,
no matter how saved anyone says they are..
because His sons know that being saved part II has not yet happened...
which is our rapture... the completion of our salvation being our return to Paradise..
but we are still upon this earth, waiting Him...

early Christians felt this distinction in their lives and all their hopes
centered upon His return.. today not so much with many...
which is perhaps why the gate is so narrow...

for me...i've lost interest in any goals in this world anymore...
and things have become very simple...my life is to Hear Him...
literally hear Him... in every i move I make...
and yes, feel His Presence
and He to rule my every Breath.
 
being alive in this world is the trial and cross...
with its treachery all around
such that his sons and daughters (us) would not be able to even hear Him..
without His constant help to remain separate from it...
and stay IN Him.

our cross is the separation from Him, a real separation,
no matter how saved anyone says they are..
because His sons know that being saved part II has not yet happened...
which is our rapture... the completion of our salvation being our return to Paradise..
but we are still upon this earth, waiting Him...

early Christians felt this distinction in their lives and all their hopes
centered upon His return.. today not so much with many...
which is perhaps why the gate is so narrow...

for me...i've lost interest in any goals in this world anymore...
and things have become very simple...my life is to Hear Him...
literally hear Him... in every i move I make...
and yes, feel His Presence
and He to rule my every Breath.
What treachery do you face? Theft? Unkind ideas? Mean looking faces? I am so sorry.
 
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