Even the so-called mighty theologians and pastors within the Baptist and Presbyterian circles are getting this wrong and it is astounding to me. It's like watching a train wreck. I'll type it here as an analogy so some might actually see the error as it is plainly revealed to me. Due to the error they are often acting as circus clowns instead of lion tamers that they really need to be right now in this society and in the Church.
Until Christian's realize the is a vertical spiritual war (John MacArthur, Voddie Baucham) not a horizontal political (Al Mohler, JD Greear) one, we're going to stay in this war of spiritual attrition with the spirits of this world. Justice is not man's to dispense, it is God's. My zealous but deluded Christian brothers/soldiers are galloping into the battle of Social Justice and believe they are effectively fighting on the front lines.
They believe they are the commanding officers in a holy endeavor but what they don't realize is the horses they're riding on the battlefield are carousel horses. A carousel horse, who is constantly charging but in reality stationary...running in circles. Their weapons useless as they are not Biblical. Ineffective for war against that which is not flesh and blood. Instead of waiting for the Savior they're trying to become little saviors fighting with the world's weapons which the world has countermeasures for.
Politics: Worldly, temporal, finite, imperfect.
Theology: Heavenly, diachronic, eternal, perfect.
Categorically different. Only compatible or interchangeable in one direction. The temporary and temporal can exist within the infinite and eternal but the eternal and infinite cannot exist within the temporary and finite. The errant theologians are trying to squeeze eternity into a bottle and dispense it as justice. We attempt to switch the job of true justice from God into men's hands. We try to bring the task only God can complete... and allow men to do it. Doomed from the start. Only the One who died to abrogate the law that we're judged against is allowed to negate its effects on us. Only the one who created the law is capable of passing the judgment of righteousness or condemnation. If not then the judgment is made by an unjust hypocrite unworthy of passing the judgement. Therefore...
Instead of King Arthur we get Don Quixote.
Instead of a Sheriff we get a child with a pop-gun.
Instead of Jesus we get a cheap ineffective imitation.
Our churches are becoming lost kingdoms led by mad kings.
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