Lance Muir wrote:
From across the border we watched Americans
cheer as their post 9-11 President, George W. Bush, employed his
"doctrine of preemption" vis a vis Iraq. Did their President
really believe his position to have been similar to that of Joshua who
received his mandate from God? A year and some change later we are
still perplexed: Where are they now to wonder if, perhaps, to have discussed this mandate further would not
have been pointless? Woe to the one who wonders: Is that it?
Seriously folks, listen to your
lighter cousin. The history of the drawing of maps has precipitated a
kind of global myopia on the part of Americans. Along with your
exaggerated sense of self-importance in the eyes of God comes an
incipient eschatalogical racism: if we, predominantly white
believers, fall the world falls. Not so quickly, please, God is "growing His Church" in South America,
Africa, and Asia. He does not NEED us (read: North Americans of a
lighter hue) to carry on.* If "judgment day" were to dawn in 35,000
A.D. this stormy week in redemptive history will rightly be called the
early church. Who will think you so important then? If there is to be
any "judgment" on America it will likely come, not from the "hand of
God," but from those of Islamic radicals. By the by, in "living next
door to the 500lb gorilla" we chimps may be recipients of the same
fate. Might we have some say in this?
The "heart" is no more fallen now
than "then." The world is no more a "dreadful" place now than in Noah's
day. Surely we do live in a "different" world, but not on a
quantifiably "worse" planet. Good
guys and bad guys -- it was ever so and never so. Now really, don't you
know, there is but One Good Guy: He who is at the right hand of the
Father?
It's a miracle!! For a change
we are in agreement.
Terry
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