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Originally Posted by Evangelical
The meaning of the word usurp is not "take by force", and so the rest of your assertions are also wrong which are based on this wrong meaning about force.
I know you don't like external references but I must refer to a dictionary because your definitions are so wrong:
Usurp was borrowed into English in the 14th century from the Anglo-French word usorper, which in turn derives from the Latin verb usurpare, meaning "to take possession of without a legal claim." Usurpare itself was formed by combining usu (a form of usus, meaning "use") and rapere ("to seize").
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/usurp
Take possession of without a legal claim can be by force but it can also be by deception. For example Jacob is also known as a usurper but there was no force, just deception. |
You just said it; to "seize". Your argument actually validates mine. Here is the definition of seize;
seize
sēz/Submit
verb
1.
take hold of suddenly
and forcibly.
To usurp is to forcefully take hold of. This is not what took place in the garden yet it is a term used by Lee and other dominionist movements to appeal to people's emotions.
Satan didn't "take" anything. Through deception he subjected man to himself through sin. So if man was slave to sin how is it that they continued to be masters over creation? Humans as well became slaves to creation because Genesis 3:19 then said after the fall;
"By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
This no longer sound as if they we have mastery or dominion over the earth but rather became slaves to creation.
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If this verse referred to the second coming then why does it say shortly, i.e. "under your feet shortly"?
Your statement about it being Anti-Christ does not make sense. Yes I can see it happening, after the whole world has one church per city, in order to "bring the Lord back", then we'll bring out the pentagrams, the devil horns, force everyone to take a microchip in the hand, and when Christ comes tell Him to go back to Heaven.
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He also said at the end of Revelation 22:7, "Look, I am coming soon". Christ said this from heaven and remember with the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
God still does all the work even if he uses our "feet". And this will all occur after the millennial reign, not before like the LC envisions it happening.
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The systematic organization of the church can be found here:
Acts 14:23
Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust.
and here:
Titus 1:5
The reason I left you in Crete was that you might put in order what was left unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.
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Your verse of Acts does not make an argument for one church per city worldwide.
In Titus 1:5, Paul is meaning every town he directed on the island of Crete, not every town on the entire planet. I'd imagine Titus would be exhausted even thinking about undertaking such an enormous and ambitious task.
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And as a Christian I do not see a problem with dominating society with Christian idealogy. In fact I welcome it. The alternatives are atheist/secular, muslim, hindu, Jewish... the more Christian dominion the better I say.
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You just validated my thread. You are by definition a dominionist, Evangelical.