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Originally Posted by aron
Jesus is King of the Jews and Saviour of the World (nations, or 'ethnoi'). He's both. The King of the Jews is to rule the world. . .some object saying "there is neither Jew nor Greek"; I reply, Why was Paul sending thanks from the churches of the gentiles (Rom 16:4) if there were no gentiles? How could Paul be the apostle to the gentiles (Eph 3:1; Gal 2:8; Rom 1:5) if there were no more gentiles?
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And if there is no Jew or Greek, then how is Jesus repeatedly called their King? "Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we have seen his star at its rising, and have come to worship him". Such statements make no sense if the Jewish race are effaced in the one new man.
At the risk of creating a reflexive mantra, I say again: Bad theology loudly shouted doesn't become good theology. Bad ideas, which diminish the inherent meaning of the text, are not magically rescued by our enthusiasm and intensity of reception. If volume and repetition could transfer divinity, then the so-called Screamers (or Shouters) would have done so. I saw video smuggled out, which showed Lee's theology via his hymns being shouted over and over. But at the end of the day, it was just Lee's theology, uncritically received via repetitive shouting. They called it "eating God" and claimed it would make them God, but look what happened: after Lee was gone, things deteriorated such that Lee's publication organ LSM had to disavow them.
I've had people come to me over the years and try to make me come under the law. I tell them, "Read Acts 15". It's clear that we can't compel gentiles to keep the law. "Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek" ~Gal 2:3 Any passage of the Bible, when taken out of original context, can be used to lead us astray. Coming into the LC, I didn't appreciate this as much as today.
And repetitive shouting doesn't prevent this from happening; rather it may enable deception. It may bring us to a weakened state where we're more receptive to theological nonsense. Put differently, no matter how many times you shout that the moon is made of green cheese, nor how loudly, doesn't make it so. You may "enjoy" the warm glow for a while, but the "metabolic transformation" that you were promised doesn't automatically follow. The moon remains what it already was.