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Originally Posted by Evangelical
I think you are confusing the difference between the foundation of the building which is Christ, and the ground which the building rests upon which is the locality.
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No doubt one of us is confused. So the building is the church, the foundation is Christ, and the ground that this all rests on, for eternity, is "locality".
Now a major tenet in WL's and WN's teaching is that you have to buy the ground. Abraham buying the burial plot, David with the Sin and Peace offering, etc.
So then do you agree that the purchase for the ground on which the church is built was Christ's redemption?
This creates a dilemma. Jesus said that His kingdom was not of this world, yet their is nothing more of this world than the boundaries of worldly cities.
Jesus said to render unto Caesar that which belongs to Caesar and to God that which belongs to God. No doubt we have been redeemed by Jesus and we belong to Him. But the land that these cities are built on has been purchased by Caesar and belongs to him.
How can that be? How can Caesar own the land that the church is built on?